Clinical Training Program · For Graduate Students

You can study nutritional biochemistry, physiology, and functional medicine in school — and still wonder what you'll do when a real patient sits across from you.

This 6-month clinical training program is built for graduate nutrition students who want to start connecting classroom knowledge to real clinical practice — before graduation, not after — and for students who want their CNS hours without the hassle of hunting for patients themselves.

✓ 6 Months of Clinical Education

✓ Rolling Admissions

✓ Next cohort starts October 19, 2026

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Meet Your Instructor

"Learn it in graduate school. See it in practice. Apply it with support."

Graduate school teaches the science. This training program helps you connect that science to real people — through observation, structured practice, case discussion, documentation, feedback, and longitudinal clinical exposure, while you're still in school.

You are not expected to arrive ready for independent practice. The program is intentionally progressive: it moves you from learning and observing, to guided application, to real feedback, to growing clinical confidence — and yes, there's an option to get your CNS hours too.

Who This Is For

Built for students who are learning the science — and want to see it work in real clinical practice.

Graduate nutrition students

Enrolled in nutrition, clinical nutrition, functional nutrition, integrative health, or a closely related graduate program who want a functional medicine perspective while working toward their CNS.

You know the concepts, not yet the application

You're learning the science and want structured exposure to real patient cases — not more theory — so you know exactly what to do with patients.

You want structured clinical exposure

Intake, clinical reasoning, note writing, lab interpretation, interventions, follow-up, and outcome monitoring education.

Exploring CNS-oriented supervised practice

For students whose circumstances and supervision arrangement meet current BCNS requirements, there is a way to get your CNS hours here too.