RECERTIFICATION INFORMATION

To maintain CDR registration, practitioners must pay their registration maintenance fee byAugust 31 each year* and complete their PDP once every five years.

There are three steps to completing the PDP:

• Step 1:Learning Plan
• Step 2:Activity Log
  • Requirements perfive-year recertification cycle:
    • 75 CPEUs including 1 CPEU in ethics or health equity forRDs
    • 50 CPEUs including 1 CPEU in ethics or health equity forDTRs
• Step 3:Self-Assessment

Recertification cycles end May31.

*Practitioners have the option to pay for five years at once at the start of each recertification cycle.

Practitioners can find the start and end dates of their recertification cycles on the Dashboard pages of their MyCDR accounts.

Requirements per five-year recertification cycle:

• 75 CPEUs including 1CPEU in ethics or health equity for RDs
• 50 CPEUs including 1 CPEU in ethics or health equity for DTRs

Practitioners may choose between completing a minimum of1 continuing professional education unit (CPEU) related to ethics OR 1CPEU related to health equity asa part of the five-year recertification requirements.

The following information is intended to assist CDR credentialed practitioners in maintaining competence and advancing practice:

• Equity is the absence of avoidable, unfair, or remediable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically or geographically or by other means of stratification. "Health equity” or “equity in health” implies that ideally everyone should have a fair opportunity to attain their full health potential and that no one should be disadvantaged from achieving this potential. 
• Health equity is one of the overarching goals in the Surgeon General’s report on Healthy People 2030. 
•  Visit CDR’s Definition of Terms List for additional information on Health Equity. 
• Examples of Health Equity CPE topics include but are not limited to global impact in eliminating all forms of malnutrition, sustainability, equitable access to food, nutrition, and other lifestyle-related services and programs, social determinants of health, health disparities, cultural competence, equitable access to safe and nutritious food and water, advocacy or legislative and regulatory food, nutrition, and health-equity related policies. 
• Review ethics OR health equity CPEU information.

No. CDR does not have a retired dietitian or dietitian technician, registered status. To maintain CDR registration, practitioners must pay their registration maintenance fee by August 31 each year* and complete their PDP once every five years.

*Practitioners have the option to pay for five years at once at the start of each recertification cycle.

Review CDR’s retirement considerations page for more information.

Yes. To request an extension for submitting the PDP, a practitioner must submit an appeal to CDR’s Appeals Panel. Review CDR’s appeals procedures page for more information.

Yes. To reinstate registration, a practitioner has two options:

1. They can submit an appeal to CDR’s Appeals Panel. Review CDR’s appeals procedures page for more information. 

2. They can retake and pass the RD or DTR examination. For more information, email cdrexams@eatright.org.

Yes. Practitioners may request verification of their exam results by emailing cdrexams@eatright.org.

Yes. Practitioners may request verification of their credential(s) via CDR's Verification System. Practitioners may request verification of their credential(s) be sent to state boards by emailing cdrverify@eatright.org.

Yes. Practitioners may request verification of CPEUs for state licensure by completing the State Licensure CPEU Verification Form and emailing the completed form to cdr@eatright.org.

Note: CDR cannot answer questions related to state licensure requirements. Please direct questions related to state licensure requirements to the relevant state.

For additional information, visit CDR's State Licensure Page.