Innovation OSF Fuel Stages Health Career Career

“The OSF innovation gave me excellent practical experiences and the resources necessary to put my ideas to reality,” explains the trainee Marketing Brynna Feehan.

This is the cornerstone of the summer internship program for OSF innovation.

“What is so cool in the Innovation OSF internship is that these are real projects,” explains Alexa Waltz, project manager for OSF Innovation who was once an intern. “Trainees jump directly to create these incredible projects in such tight deadlines.”

How the summer internship program works

During the 10 -week program, trainees obtain their own projects to lead. They create applications, databases, websites and marketing equipment. Some even team up with mission partners on existing projects.

Aishi Tulasaku, junior of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is an intern of community health. As part of the RURS (Rural Sante SANTH Access and Innovation Network (Rhain) project, Tulasaku analyzed data, objective and darkness in the community. She will even leave as certified community health workers.

“They really went beyond.

Tulasaku is not the only one to have found his passion through the internship. Osf Connor Davey and Reid Jockish innovation engineers are former trainees who have learned that engineering in health care is exactly where they want to be.

“Our interns projects started as an idea and we had to get them through the engineering process,” said Jockish.

I do not know if engineering or medical school was the way for him, Jockish found his perfect adjustment to Osf Innovation. “My two experiences as an intern led me to really want to work here in this role.”

Prepare trainees in the workforce

Of course, the objective of the internship is not only to prepare the next generation of OSF health mission partners.

Noël Adams, vice-president of academic collaborations, says that this program offers trainees skills, links and understanding of professionalism that will benefit them in any workplace.

“We are trying not to bring the trainees and simply focus on their field or their skills set, we try to focus on their full working experience.”

More than that, Adams says: “It’s always incredible to see how we bring the trainees of” There is no way I can do this job “until the end of summer. It’s like” hey, we did that! “It’s really fun to look at this feeling of accomplishment.”

The marketing trainee Megan Clar agrees. “Before the start of the summer, I thought I would be under-qualified, or I could not follow.”

Now she attributes to her internship to grow her confidence and broaden her horizons. CLAR’s working relationships in the workplace have led to this growth through comments, encouragement and professional development opportunities during OSF innovation.

Collaboration and communication

Each trainee obtains a mentor, a full -time mission partner, to provide individual advice throughout the summer. In addition, trainees are in direct communication with the team of their project.

This collaborative work environment allows the flexibility and creativity necessary to innovate, which Waltz calls “bread and butter” of OSF innovation.

“We are open to ideas and you don’t have to be an expert for your opinion,” explains Waltz. “I can speak to one of my leaders and feel like I could ask questions and get comments.”

And that includes trainees.

“They [Alexa Waltz and John Vozenilek, MD] Always ask me “What do you want to do?” Said Tulasaku. She explains how it taught her to think by herself and to take care of her work.

Trainees receive a framework for their project, but it’s up to them to run it. According to Waltz, this is “why we get incredible, creative and innovative solutions and ideas.

These projects are not only a teamwork product between mission partners and trainees, but between the trainees themselves.

“I think it was a very good opportunity to collaborate with other trainees, to make friends and to see what other trainees work on,” explains Ty Tinkham, trainee in business analysis. “With all of us having a history and different majors, it’s cool to see how we can all have an impact on the health care system.”

And that could well be one of the most special things about the summer innovation internship. From four different countries and nine different universities, the 2024 trainees create a multinational and multigenerational workplace to reach a common mission: to serve with great care and love.

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Last update: August 23, 2024