We're Australia's skills assessing authority for dietitians. Our role is to make sure dietitians who practise in Australia deliver safe, ethical and evidence-based services.

We offer skills recognition and assessment services for:

  • overseas-qualified dietitians who want to work in Australia

AND

  • Australian-qualified dietitians who need a skills assessment to migrate to Australia

You'll need skills recognition to work in Australia as an Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD). Discover the benefits of being an APD.

We can't offer skills recognition or assessments for nutritionists. (Learn about the difference between nutritionists and dietitians.)

Skills recognition for overseas-qualified dietitians

Dietetic Skills Recognition (DSR)

This type of assessment is for you if:

  • you're an overseas-qualified dietitian who wants to work in Australia as an APD

OR

  • you're an Australian-qualified dietitian who needs DSR due to a lack of recent practice hours

Process for DSR and how to apply

Mutual recognition

This type of assessment is for you if:

  • you're an overseas-qualified dietitian who wants to work in Australia as an APD

AND

  • your qualification comes from a region where we have a mutual recognition agreement (New Zealand or Ontario, Canada)

Process for mutual recognition and how to apply

Skills assessment for an Australian visa

This type of assessment is for you if:

  • you're an international dietitian who wants to migrate to Australia

AND

  • you need a skills migration assessment to apply for an Australian visa

AND

  • you hold an accredited Australian dietetics degree, or you've completed the first 2 stages of DSR

How to apply for a skills assessment 

Get in touch

If you have questions about skills recognition for overseas dietitians, contact us at dsr@dietitiansaustralia.org.au

Process for overseas-educated dietitians
Find out how dietitians with overseas qualifications can apply for Dietetic Skills Recognition (DSR) to become an Accredited Practising Dietitian in Australia.
Skills assessment for a visa
We're Australia's official skills assessing authority for dietitians. If you want to work in Australia, you can apply to us for a skills migration assessment.
Mutual recognition of dietetic skills
A mutual recognition agreement recognises your training and experience as eligible to work in the country. Find out who we have a mutual recognition agreement with.