Short-term effectiveness of an outcomes research training curriculum within a coordinated program.

The fourth edition of the Commission on Accreditation for Dietetics Education Standards of Education mandated outcomes research training. Our objective was to determine the short-term effectiveness (<5 years) of the outcomes research training curriculum in the Coordinated Program in Dietetics (CP) at the University of Missouri-Columbia, which exceeds these minimum standards. Toward this end, a survey tool was administered to University of Missouri-Columbia CP graduates before the implementation of the fourth edition of Standards of Education and to University of Missouri-Columbia CP graduates with two semesters of outcomes research training; graduates of two other CPs from different universities from the same years were also surveyed.