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The College of Public Health and Human Sciences knows that internships are integral to students'
future success and supports relationships and opportunities that not only benefit them
but also our community, our college and those who hire them.
These committed, caring and energetic students provide industry the opportunity to engage
the future workforce and to draw on their talents, ideas and eagerness to learn.
Likewise, our students get the valuable opportunity to grow and develop both personally and professionally.
They gain skills and expertise, broaden their professional networks, acquire leadership
qualities and develop confidence.
Internships also are a place where students can enhance, test and apply what they've learned
in the classroom. The learning that takes place during an internship bridges the knowledge
students gain through coursework and provides the opportunity to gain new knowledge and
exposure to an abundance of current practices.
And because students bring back that new knowledge to the classroom to share with peers and professors,
internships have the ability to affect overall curricula and learning for new generations
of students and to build community capacity to advance lifelong health and well-being
for every person, every family and every community in Oregon and beyond.
Hi, my name is Jenna Kennedy and I am a senior in the Athletic Training program. Over my
four years at Oregon State University, I've had the opportunity to complete multiple internships
including working with the Pittsburg Stealers, Oregon State football and Oregon State softball.
Through these internships I've learned what it takes to be an athletic trainer. My responsibilities
with the Oregon State softball team include injury evaluation, on field management and
rehabilitation. This entire experience has been so beneficial to me in my future career
where I hope to become a collegiate athletic trainer. I will be able to use the skills
I've learned during my internships to help student athletes. So thank you for these opportunities.
Hi, my name is Vivian Nguyen and I am a Public Health student. I was given the opportunity
to intern at Albany InReach Services, which gave me a tremendous amount of professional
and interpersonal skills. This will help me in my future career as a nurse anesthetist
because I got a better understanding of the importance of access to healthcare. And a
couple of my responsibilities included coordinating free flu vaccination clinics and I also helped
to implement a diabetes program. So thank you very much for this opportunity.
Hi, my name is Travis Anderson, and I am a student in Exercise and Sport Science currently
interning with the Portland Timbers Football Club. I am working with Dr. JoonKoon who is
the director of sport science and I am kind of his little assistant that runs all of the
day-to-day operations, helping with data collection and management. This internship has changed
the course of my career because JoonKoon has inspired me to go to grad school and eventually
get my PhD so I can develop a research-based strengthening and conditioning program for
soccer players to not only allow the players in this country to compete at the highest
level domestically and internationally, but also reduce the rate of injuries that these
players suffer and keep them on the field longer and training harder. So I'm very grateful
for this opportunity, thank you very much.
Hi, my name is Jannae Parrott, I'm a recent graduate of the Masters of Public Health program
where I had my focus in International Health. I did my internship at the Oregon Health Authority
Addictions and Mental Health Division where I was fortunate enough to turn my internship
opportunity into a job as an independent contractor. During my internship, I was responsible for
implementing a statewide prevention grant, and I was also responsible for creating a
data assessment workbook for tribal prevention coordinators and also for providing technical
assistance to the tribe. With this opportunity, I hope to go on and continue to implement
prevention programs in communities of color and low-income communities. It's something
I'm really passionate about. And I hope to change the world by hopefully implementing
a single payer healthcare system eventually and help also to strengthen prevention systems
across the United States.
Hi, my name is Ben Bogert and I'm a senior in Athletic Training at Oregon State University.
Over my four years as a student here, I've interned at four different places including
the Oregon State University football team, Western Oregon University football and track,
Crescent Valley High School sports teams and currently interning with the OSU girls volleyball
team. My experience as an intern has really helped me to prove to myself that I am in
the right field. My most recent internship with the volleyball team has been very positive
and unique. You know you enjoy and value what you do when you wake up at 5:30 every day
to work in an unpaid internship. I'm responsible for helping with care and prevention of athletic
injuries, as well as providing assistance with treatments and rehab plans for athletes.
This internship has given me a realistic expectation of what it takes to work as an athletic trainer
in any professional setting in terms of work ethic, knowledge and skill level. After graduation,
I hope to either intern as an assistant athletic trainer for the Portland Trailblazers or continue
my education to become a physician assistant. I am very grateful for these opportunities
I've received through my internships. The emergency management skills alone I've developed
not only help me in my career goals, but they could in fact save a life, which I think is
more valuable than anything.
Hi, I'm Alexis Mettler, I'm a dietetic intern here at Oregon State University. My internship
is like having a different job every few weeks. Just when I start to learn everybody's name,
it's time to move on to a different place. The dietetic internship gives me, as a recent
nutrition graduate, a taste of the many opportunities available in the dietetics profession. Some
of us are really lucky and we graduate from school knowing exactly what type of dietitian
we want to be, some of us have no idea, and some of us only think that we know what we
want to do after the internship. But after having been exposed to so many different options,
we can completely change our minds, sometimes every week. I've had the opportunity to work
in long-term care, I've worked with kids at WIC, with the dietitian at Burgerville restaurants,
with the Oregon Dairy Council, at Salem Hospital, at the Corvallis School District and the Dialysis
Center. Each time I go to a new site I find a new passion. Whether this is because it's
what I'm exposed to at that time or because of the fantastic preceptors I've been fortunate
to have, I'm not sure. But whatever the reason, I am leaving the internship with a wealth
of new knowledge and an increased confidence in my skills and abilities. I'm really grateful
for this opportunity and really look forward to using what I've learned to help change
people's lives with healthy eating, so thank you so much.
My name is Christopher MacLean, and I am a MPH student here at OSU studying Health Promotion
and Health Behavior. I am very grateful for the opportunity I've had to intern with Wallace
Medical Concern in East Portland, it's given me a lot of great organizational experience.
While being there I have helped them really develop their diabetes care program and monitor
the outcomes of medical intervention as well as the behavioral intervention that we've
implemented with this very diverse population. It's going to help me a lot in my future career,
it's going to give me all kinds of knowledge to work with in implementing health promotion
programs.
Hi, I'm Sadie Davis, I'm a senior studying Human Development and Family Sciences and
I'm currently interning at the Women's Center here on campus. At the Women's Center my job
is two-fold, I do office duties and administrative type work and I'm also a co-coordinator for
a program called WORTHE, which stands for Women Returning to Higher Education. We serve
women who are 25 years of age and older there. And I think this is going to help me in my
future with where I'm going because I'd really like to get involved with career counseling
and so helping people right now on campus will definitely aid me with that, so thanks
for the opportunity.
Hi, my name is Jonathon Wymore and I am a senior at Oregon State University, studying
both Nutrition as well as Exercise Physiology. Something I'm passionate about is helping
others, and my vehicle to do this is by teaching them about nutrition and exercise so they
can improve the quality of their own life. Currently, I'm doing a practicum at Oregon
State University's Department of Recreational Sports working on a program called UFit. This
is a program that's designed to take sedentary students and teach them how to begin an exercise
program. In the UFit program we expose them to a variety of cardiovascular as well as
resistance training, and teach them important components such as goal setting, identifying
barriers to exercise and how to develop strategies to overcome those barriers, as well as creating
positive support systems. I'm really grateful for this opportunity, it's given me a lot
of good experience that I can use in a career as a wellness programmer and I'm really excited
to see my work right now paying off by improving the lives of the students that I'm working
with and starting to address some of those public health issues that we currently see
facing our nation.
Hi my name is Sherry Farley, I graduated just recently with my PhD in Nutrition from OSU
and I'm currently a dietetic intern through OSU's dietetic program. This internship has
given me a wide array of experiences, hands-on experiences in clinical nutrition, counseling,
food service. I've enjoyed working with all of the preceptors and dietitians, and I appreciate
that they've shared their time, and especially their knowledge, and I really think that that
has really immensely helped my nutrition background already and I do have confidence moving forward
that I will be even more successful in my chosen career path as a dietitian because
of all of these unique experiences, so I really appreciate it, thank you.