 My name is Carrie Lauren, and I'm a Biology faculty member and I'm the coordinator of the public health program here at our board meeting. And I'm very glad to see you here today for the person who came on. We have quite a diverse group of panelists. We'll be talking to you about either their career and some opportunities for some opportunities, some programs that they're representing. So we'll have a chance to hear about, to meet them and everybody about their programs, the community, we'll be going to ask them questions and answer afterwards. So I think what I'll do first, we have, like I said, we have a group of panelists, but we have a special panelists, Sam, who is, sorry, you're all special. And you know me so well. Sorry that I just came up, but she is an alumna. And she graduated five years ago. And so I thought we'd be nice to see if Sam could tell you a little bit about what she's doing now. But talked about experiences at Roger Williams and what set her up and what she cared for. So I'm sure that you should look at that. If you'd like to hurry up. I think that'll be better. Okay, so Sam Poleska? Yep. Formerly Sam Taylor. At Denzai Mount. So maybe tell us about your capital. Yeah, so I started out coming to Roger Williams. I was actually a free bio major. Did that for my freshman and half of my sophomore year. And then I decided I wanted to switch over to biology. So I started majoring in biology. So I was pretty similar. So it wasn't a huge change. And I also really enjoyed organic cap for some reason. It was great. But that drove me into a philosophy of chemistry major as I progressed through sophomore and junior year. So I kind of ended up with biology and chemistry as my degree. And then as I was here, I really liked my genetics class. And I started talking with Marcia a lot. And after my sophomore year, I actually started doing research because I had a class in Paris over the summer. I would take care and do research on marine viruses, which I found was probably the best thing I could do just because I gave her that hands-on experience. It taught me how to really think critically in the lab and try to solve problems other than just in a textbook or in a classroom lab with a completely different experience. And also allowed me to go to conferences where I could present my research. So I was able to learn how to talk to other people in different fields about science, which was, it can be challenging. So that's kind of my experience here. And then as junior and senior year, I also did research during the school year with Erin again between junior and senior year summers. And then after college, I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do. I kind of explored doing PhD programs, but I couldn't really narrow it down in a specific way I wanted to go. So I actually got a job at GenZine through networking with a person that I knew. And it started out in cell culture manufacturing, which means our company generates biological drugs and to make those, they're produced by cells, to grow the cells and give them different conditions for you to see either the protein or the enzyme that treats the patients. So I did that for a year and it gave me really good industry experience just knowing how the company worked and what they were looking for. A lot of industry is really good about documentation. So if you think keeping lab notebooks in your class right now is difficult, wait until you actually get to a corporate job because they're much more interested in patent protection so it's all about recording everything you did. So it gave me a whole new experience in those terms. But after a year of doing that, I was ready to get back more to the research side of things. So I actually had applied for a job of my company that was doing gene therapy research. So after a year, I switched over to gene therapy research and that's where I've been for the past four years now. And also as I was going through my gene therapy research, I realized it is hard to progress after a certain point without a PhD in science is so I started to pursue an MBA because I wanted more of a global perspective on programs and have more of a global impact. So I've almost done my MBA and hope that it's more being like a global project leader for drug development programs to push them along that company. That's kind of a fabulous story. The possibility of a PhD just definitely takes a lot of time and I'm kind of ready to move on to something more but depending on where you go, there's plenty of opportunities without PhDs in research. So don't feel like you, they're great. It's not, you don't have to get one to be able to get a job in the industry or anywhere. But I bet it wasn't an accident that the fact that you did undergraduate research with viruses probably did it. Yes, that definitely was kind of what helped me. I think if I hadn't done that research with viruses undergrad it wouldn't have really gotten my resume and pulled apart from other people it would have been more difficult to get that job. All right, so you met Sam. I'm going to go ahead so that you can meet all of our panelists and find out a little more of their programs and then we can have a little bit more of a question. So, I'm not sure who would like to go first. So, Katie, maybe you could start. Sure. And just to introduce yourself and the program and some information for the students. Sure. My name is Katie Smollin-Oro from Johnson & Wales University. I'm here to represent the Physician Assistant Program. We started it just a few years ago. We're actually enrolling our third class right now. So, it's a two-year program, a 24-month program at the university. We have our first set of graduates who are getting ready to graduate. They're in their clinical year right now participating in local hospitals, healthcare provider offices throughout the state. And then as I said, we're enrolling our third class right now. I can go over some of the requirements if people have more specific questions. That would be helpful. I do, and I think it would be helpful and I know that some of the students had some questions about just about what makes your program unique. Okay. We are the first Physician Assistant Program in the state of Rhode Island, so we're very proud of that. The typical, particularly the students in our program had over a thousand applications, just to let you know. It's a pretty competitive program, a brand new building in downtown Bobanets. If anybody's familiar with the knowledge just within the area, I know that. Anybody who's going to come down that area, down my brown, the hospital is located right over there. Just to give you a little bit of demographics of our students, they actually come from all different states and from across the country. The typical student on average, our maturity student has a GPA of 3.5 overall and then a BCP of about a 3.4. That was for our second year class. The statistics are posted on our website as well and I'd be happy to give you the link for that. We are looking for, our minimum requirement is over a 3.0, so we're looking for students who have a 3.0 average as a minimum 3.0, but as I said they're matriculating a little on the higher side. Some of the prerequisites include mostly biology courses. We're looking for a credits in biology as an undergraduate, chemistries, anatomies and physiologies, just a couple of Englishes and other prerequisites that you can get in your undergraduate degree. The majority of students in your biology majors. Yes, yes. So we've got, how many people are biologists? Okay, so you've got a significant, that's pretty much the number one area that we're drawing from, because you draw from the chemistry area. Sometimes psychology comes to us with microbiology. It really just depends on the area that you're coming from. The experience that you have is recognition experience. You're interested in the program. You're interested in our mission state med, if you can shed your lipstick for the university. We have 24 spots for our first two classes. We'll be enrollment in 36 students this year, and ultimately we'll move up to 46 for the whole program. So we have biology. What are some of the other majors that are represented? So I want to shout out Marina, so a marine bio. Okay. Do we have psychology? Math, chem, chem, yeah. Psyche. And subsyche, good. Good, good. And public health. I'm sorry, environmental? Yeah, okay, great. Great. Thank you. We can zip on back to this. Do you find that students that are successful tend to have certain characteristics? What they've done with their undergraduate years? Yeah, actually, we find that the majority of the students that enroll at the university are the ones that are selected to come in for an interview and from there are offered acceptance into our program. We find that they have strong undergraduate backgrounds and strong direct patient care. So Dr. Bodley, who's the director of the program, when we are renewing vials, he's very interested to see how heavy of a force load you can carry during your academic years, your undergraduate. Sometimes we have students that come back to school maybe from a different major and are interested in the physician assistant program, but they don't have those sciences lined up, a heavy science background, proving that you can take up to so many credits just in the sciences. That's definitely something that we're looking for and we find that those students are very successful at the university. You also have to have direct patient care. Our minimum is 250 hours to apply for the program, but on average our matriculating students have about 2,000 hours. So you have to be able to balance that into your total application as well. Some students are coming right from an undergraduate degree. The majority of students actually are out there accumulating their direct patient care once they graduate. So they take a gap year and that's not anything to be afraid of. I know a lot of people see that as a negative, especially when you're in the undergraduate setting. But to be honest with you, going out into the real world and getting that seasoning as they call it. And that experience is really something that is helpful with your application as well. And we find that a lot of our stronger applicants have that experience as well. What type of clinical experience do people normally have? Because I know that quite a few people here have their EMT license. Is that something that you would consider? That's definitely desirable. And that's definitely one that we point students towards. CNAs, EMTs, a lot of times, ER techs, medical scribes, medical assistants who are working in the back of the house with the patients, not so much the front of the house. That's not the patient care, but that question comes up a lot. Those are some of the most desirable forms of patient care experience that we're looking for and those are the most competitive. Volunteer work looks good, physician work looks good as well. When you think about just the vast number of applications not just for our program, although we're very flattered to have so many applications, A programs across the country, there's less than 200 right now, so it is hard to have your application notice, so you want to make sure that you're filling your application and your experiences with the best and the most competitive as you can. I read somewhere that experiences like health care and the Peace Corps can qualify as an experience. If you're working with patients, it's going to be a hands-on experience. A lot of times it was funny somebody came through and they had experience working in surgery but the patient was always unconscious and it really didn't qualify as patient care because the patient wasn't awake and even though you're in the health care field you really have to make sure that you're having that interaction with the patient and that you're gaining the experiences. It's never black and white. You really have to just make sure that as long as it's that patient hands-on patient experience with the interactions that it would qualify which you could double check that with any counselor or program that you're attending just to make sure. Because it can be a little tricky at times. I also, sorry, I have another question. What, like are these different kinds of positions as opposed to your programs like offered at times? At this time we don't have a, it's not a specialty program. There are nine different rotations. Seven of them are required and they'll cover all different areas, behavioral medicine, women's health, family medicine, surgical and so on. And then we have two extra electives that you could even choose to go into one area if you liked one area and particularly if you wanted to explore another area. So we're not exactly into specialty yet. We have our accreditation status. It's an ongoing thing. We have a visionally accredited, that's what any new program can be accredited as until the students graduate past their national boards and then come back with the more accreditation stuff that just keeps going. Until we actually have our accreditation continuing which will be upcoming. We don't plan to have any additional specialty programs but after that we're going to be looking into that. I'm going to jump in here so that you can tell us a little bit about the clinic and then also some things that the students will probably not know about the clinic but then also some opportunities. Sure. So I feel like almost everything that we just said is a perfect practice for me talking about the free clinic. So the free clinic is based in Providence but it's a statewide volunteer trip and healthcare delivery model. So we have a two-fold mission, one to provide comprehensive health services to uninsured adults who are below 200% of the federal poverty level. So people who fall outside of the Affordable Care Act coverage and also to serve as a training site for healthcare professionals. So a lot of the people power at the clinic are people who are in programs with our partner academic collaborators. So we partner with 13 different programs including the WPA program for the site training and experiential component of those different programs. So some of them are certificate, some of them are licensed, some of them are just experiential. So we have a full range of volunteer opportunities ranging from medical assistance to language interpreting to medical recording to prescription assistance programs. So a lot of different things. One of the things that I'm particularly excited about is in addition to regular volunteerism, where he volunteers through internships, we also have one of the largest teams of AmeriCorps VISTAs. You can mention the Peace Corps. So the AmeriCorps VISTA program, if you don't know about it, is the domestic Peace Corps. You serve for a year of volunteer service at an organization working to deal with helping people get out of poverty. So in the clinic, we have people serving as volunteer coordinators working with our extensive volunteer team, doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, PAs full range of nutritionists, physicians, assistants, all kinds of different people. We also have, there's seven different positions including data analysts, so some of the things we're talking about in terms of more analytical skills. So those AmeriCorps VISTA program spots are generally filled with Clintons Nationally Competitive because we're a statewide comprehensive care place. It's not just like a primary care doctor. They get labs and diagnostics, they get the information with CVS and through wellness programs. So if you meet the eligibility guidelines you go there and you get this comprehensive care for free. So we're a national model and we're a national competitive. So the AmeriCorps VISTA spots there are typically filled by people interested in medical school, public health. They take that gap here at the clinic because they're not really sure exactly what they want to do and they find that interacting with the range of people at the clinic and people who are kind of in their same position, sort of a year of exploration. It's been very helpful for them. They've gone to medical school, you know, so it's a really great experience. Some of the AmeriCorps VISTA placement opportunities are in organizations where you might have like one or two people at the clinic. There are seven positions so there's a team and the work position is important. The clinic couldn't function without the AmeriCorps VISTA so it's not like you're doing some thing that sounds good on paper but you're actually like making copies of the runner. You're actually working with some of the top docs and medical providers on the state. So thank you for that crap. It's about the importance of having that kind of experience because that's kind of what we do and one of the reasons that the medical providers volunteer their time there is because they provide medical care in a way that they thought they would when they were going to medical school. It's unencumbered by the research this is free care so there's no filling, there's no clock watching, there's no insurance reimbursement. All of that financial aspect of providing health care is limited. So those providers get to see people and give them care. So it's an interesting organization to volunteer at to intern at to be an AmeriCorps VISTA program member at because there are very few places like that. Everybody there wants to be there. Patients, volunteers, provider interns. They're very small staff. I want to kind of help keep it on film but I'm going to reiterate based on the experience of people who come to the clinic. I've been running the AmeriCorps program for the last five years and I don't know if the AmeriCorps goes through and they're all really remarkable people and the value that they all sent that they received from the clinic. So whether it's clinic or someplace else, I would really encourage you to not think of that gap year as something to be afraid of and kind of figure out and use that as strength to live by whatever it is. It actually has a meaning because so many people do utilize it and utilize it to figure out what they want to do and sometimes you don't know what you want to do until you're doing it and sometimes you say, aha this is exactly what I want to do. You say wow this is not what I thought it was going to be but it's all good. It's all good and it's really important. Margaret, I just wanted to also the idea of if you've got any competence in language the translation Spanish translation is a huge part of what we do. New patients now are Spanish. I would also like to share a story of one of our Roger Williams students who came with us last year and he was amazing and he didn't have medical background he didn't have public health interests. He helped us doing some marketing, outreach, fundraising development work and so one of the things that we look for we place people in either internships or volunteer positions or American positions is not only what's your major and what's your interest but as a human being and your analytical skills and how have you demonstrated initiative and flexibility? Have you worked with a team? Because there's very few places where you can work completely independently so we can talk more about that if you're interested in it. Sam, you would also agree that working with a team having that other experience as you're having your experience with Roger Williams don't discount all the other opportunities you have to show leadership or to show team building, to show initiative because even though it's not it may not seem exactly what you might think the resume is calling for it's really important because often those skills aren't as important as what you're running in the classroom. I've been a question team here for my four years and I was the captain for two of them I had put that on my resume just to show that I was part of a team, I did have leadership skills even though it wasn't necessarily in a lab environment it was still showing those same skills and a lot of times it was actually brought up as interviews especially being a person pretty much right out of college it was just like a talking point to really get to know as an interviewer they got to know me a little bit better and I could talk about more of my leadership skills and abilities versus yes I can do lab work, I can do bench work but I also have more than just a question to paint. I get involved in whatever you have so do you have some questions? I know some of you are still waiting for some of our other panelists that are coming in some other areas and I might be able to be able to some of the some of the questions about learning about aquarium I can't answer them I can probably bend them over but what are some questions that you might have? For the PA program I'm reading online that shadowing with the PA is encouraged that's definitely encouraged definitely encouraged there's no minimum number of hours but it's just a great opportunity for people that are considering the field to really get in there and see what a PA does where they fall, how they work with the teams a lot of students will shadow I know that Rhode Island Hospital Lifespan they allow up to 30 hours a year for you to go in there and shadow, there are other opportunities as well with PAs that are going to be applied to practice or different clinics as well I know that they do seem to be open to it and it's definitely something that we require you to have at least a few hours there's no minimum or maximum number it's definitely very valuable to people that are considering the field and just kind of open your eyes when you're there and just to glimpse into what it's like one of the most competitive slots in the clinic is the medical recorders so those are the folks that go into the exam rooms with the patients and whether it's a doctor or an expert practitioner or PA, whatever kind of provider they vary the recorder to the electronic medical record of the conversation so they get to be kind of a silent witness to those interactions and what they really love and it's one thing to kind of think about what those are really like but when you have a lot of experience with your patients as a medical recorder you get a really good idea of what those interactions and what those conversations are and what that's really like so it's one of the reasons like I said it's a very competitive volunteer spot in the clinic do they do like emergency medical care? nope it's not an urgent care or walk-in people have to meet eligibility requirements income, residency so it's like going to a regular you mentioned that statewide is you have a focus in in Providence but do some of the providers practice throughout the state are the volunteers ever involved in that aspect? that's a great question the clinic is located in Providence and the majority of entities happen at the clinic but we also have a statewide physicians network about 150 doctors around the state their patients are seen in those volunteer doctors' offices then we coordinate all the answers in their labs but there isn't volunteer there aren't volunteer opportunities did you ever get to interact with a place I worked at the discovery team you said you worked with the factory that produced the compounds so did you get to go take a few steps back ever and see where else? not so I was working first the manufacturing part and now I'm more on the development side so there's also the discovery which is like the pure research side I interact with the individuals over there, we talk a lot but I don't actually go and work in that department because once you kind of have a job you're kind of stuck in your unless you transfer jobs, you don't necessarily go over and work in that area very frequently but I definitely have a lot of interaction with the discovery side that's an interesting point because when we think about biotech we kind of have one idea you started in one area and then in the company you found out about something else and then did some moving are they paying for your MBA? yes, they're paying for my MBA so one of the things I didn't realize starting to assign was how many opportunities there are within like a biotech company it ranges from starting out having an idea of how you can treat a disease this way all the way to pull out production and selling the drug so anything you can think of in between there's an opportunity for a job somewhere and then also one of the nice things about working for this company, a lot of actual biotech companies will do this is provide education assistance so you can say that I want to pursue a degree and I'm doing an MBA because I want to kind of go into the program management side of stuff but I know someone that's getting an environmental chemistry degree in my department for a master's or someone just doing a biotech master's program and it's really nice that they support the employees to continue their education that aren't just kind of pigeonholed into one avenue yes I actually in my direct department, one girl, I work with Michelle she, I want to say she graduated maybe seven or eight years before I did but there's probably five or six people off the top of my head that I know that I've gone to Roger Lin's and are now working at Jensang either in Boston or in Birmingham a great company that has a ton of stuff there do you still like work full-time and then go to school in Miami? yes I'm doing my MBA through UMass Amherst and I chose to do an online program just because I have a very active stuff after work I have a lot of stuff I want to do so it was hard for me to narrow down like two nights a week I would go to class in addition to the homework on top of that so doing an online program just allowed me the flexibility, kind of like all the commercials you hear on TV, do it anytime, anywhere but it's really convenient just because I am working full-time and trying to fit it into my life and my schedule a lot nicer than dedicating certain nights to it and then extra time on top of that for homework questions before I throw it in so Katie with your hand with your the 24 month program are the students are they commuting in is it full year round we've mentioned that many of the students are in their clinical part could you talk a little bit about the structures the majority they are definitely commuting in we don't offer any on-campus housing for our graduate students students came from everywhere they came this year we just enrolled one from California we had one from Utah last year primarily they are from the New England area New York is very popular on road class everybody thought we'd be full of Rhode Islanders and we actually had one one Rhode Islander last year we actually had five it's just the way that it worked out with the people that were applying and the criteria that they were meeting they come from all over typically they have an apartment in the downtown Providence area or in the Providence, Princeton, Warwick area and they're commuting in every day their classes are typically eight to four and we always joke because they're there all the time they have 24-hour access to the building and they're there before I get there in the morning they're there later at night if I come back for something they're still there they're studying they're in the cadaver lab they're in the clinical skills lab they're always there so proximity wise they are pretty close in the area this year we connected them all through a one of our students connected everybody through a Facebook page so the 24 incoming students kind of formed a bond before hand they met up before class even started and a couple of them I think we're four different groups of three four people actually all lived together in an apartment so they either rented a house or a large apartment and are actually living together in addition to going to school every single day eight to four Monday through Friday but it's working out for them and they are pretty close but they like to be there throughout that extra time in the building as well just going back to I know a lot of companies when you start working that offer the tuition reimbursement program that's a great perk to have when you go out into the field about financing the PA program and how to pay for tuition which is about $80,000 for your 24 month program it's definitely not anything that it's a significant amount of money the National Health Corps is a great area to get into if you want to sign up with them if you have to go through an application process you have to be selected for this program but they will pay your tuition and in exchange when you graduate from PA school you are going to serve in an under-served area and you'll still receive the same pay all the perks of a regular job that you're going to be working with an obligation definitely is under-served and it's a great opportunity for students, it's a wonderful organization a Roger Williams graduate actually just was accepted into that program very proud of our King Dan Thoreau in addition to that working with prison systems across the country they offer a lot of tuition reimbursement in exchange for your services and training there are always loans out there of course when you graduate definitely a lucrative field once you do graduate but financing it is always a question that comes up different rotary clubs I think offer scholarships as well they're all different areas of financing I'm one of those empty seats and and who are you oh very nice to meet you okay great we sit down and I will we'll I love your smiling face a nice segue so we've we've talked a little bit we've got a panel that includes Sam from GenZine Kate from WWU and and we also have part of the new clinic the Rhode Island sorry and so we've just been introducing the opportunities for students and talking about having a little question and answer about what students do the best to prepare what they may be looking for so I don't want to bounce but that's what that's what you like so I did have I was just about to ask a question about PA programs so maybe I'll throw that out there and then we'll get to that but this also goes for really we're hearing more and more of that you need patient care hours or you need some experience in the field you need that outside of the classroom experience how do you document that how do you hold that in in some cases you may just need a letter of recommendation that's really specific Jane worked with me for three years who presented here but what about the structures were actually documenting it so I'm not saying I got a paycheck to this place for my 100,000 hours so how do you sort of pay us sure students report that information on their very lengthy CASPA applications so everything there you have to sign your life with it we do have the right to check on your hours you report everything we do have documentation we could possibly go and check on it but the hours are all self-reported so we're looking students report it some students will just report it and some will go all the way back to high school and then you would go to pages and pages of experience that might correlate but a lot of times it doesn't when you're the waitress at Friendly's or that the dude with the field that you're going into customer service skills yes but maybe not we accumulate the information we take our information from CASPA if any information is misreported there are repercussions and students' applications will be unfortunately they'll be older suspended flags and CASPA will send out messages to everybody that's how we do it well our approach is similar that is provided in the application process I think I would add that if you intend that you would be moving into that type of program you need to start relatively early to accumulate that experience because you can't wait until the summer before and then think that you can accumulate it in a hurry I think most of us have advising processes on campus where if you identify you are interested in an APA program or pre-med, pre-med, whatever then you will be advised not only the courses you need to take and the various types of testing but as well the special characteristics of each of the programs and that way you can be well prepared I would also just having looked at a lot a lot of applications and resumes for a lot of I would also just encourage you to do what you're curious about what you love and report what you are proud of because I think going to Roger Williams you're becoming a well-rounded person so you can be thoughtful and in the same way when you go to think about your future if you want to get a job if you think about what excites you in the way that you talk about you did this and then I did my work so you did this what gets you jazzed if you think about getting a job you are going to get a job that is not going to be a good one so those kinds of interests and curiosities are absolutely reflected in whatever you talk to anybody and anybody can see through that because if you try and pump it up it's lovely stuff it's not going to work if you talk about things that you care about that you're interested in that you're proud of if you work with people and they're good people and you know it's meaningful to you do things that are meaningful and stretch yourself to do those things because that's what's going to get you where you want to go not like get the grade and get the job because that's you're all smart people but if you want to really do it upright do it upright and go for the things that excite you this is all really great great perspective can you tell us a little bit about the graduate program I know you're you're with the graduate school and then so we have several graduate programs are you are in our graduate school of business and we have tax programs and we also have the MBA and we're very famous for those programs because they've been in place longer but we also have graduate programs associated with the college of arts and sciences and so we have a master of science in global environmental studies and we have a master in communication and so the requirements for those two programs of course would then be different from the ones for the business oriented programs and we have all of the programs the applications would be online and you can find deep information about each of the programs from the client main website and you just ask for graduate education and then you can diverge into the direction of your own interest but they're all accessible from that one website and so we have the students who are in the arts and sciences programs which is more in my I'm the coordinator for the MSGES but the students and those programs are very excited and they are doing very well in their career paths we've been very keen to do and follow through with our students so every year it's global environmental global environmental studies studies and we wanted that program to have an international focus and we do have the corporate study abroad experience at the master's level we have particularly good opportunities in China very good connections for doing some research and after long research taking courses so we have a number of collegiate relationships with the University of China would internships and research as undergraduates help in that in the placement into that program well especially for the master of science and global environmental studies it is a research degree so we're going to do a complete research project that is approximately one third of the program and you write a thesis that can defend so if you've had research experience it puts you a step ahead because you can do a more elaborate project and build on the skills that we already have and work directly with a professor one of our advantages is that our classes at Bryant are on the small side where you get the plus is you get maximum contact with your professors and other students in the courses and the downside is you want to take their attention so it's a very it's the kind of program if you're one of those people that just likes to jump in and thoroughly embrace what you're doing those that type of student does very well let me start asking you a question so the panelists have any questions for the students? I'll put you guys on the spot I don't know why you weren't expecting I want to know why you guys chose this panel that's a good question I'm going to pick somebody so I'm a very bio major but I just declared mine as a public health in Spanish so I'm kind of, yeah I'm all over the place so I was interested to look at this specific panel because there are those different areas that I'm looking into but there was an opportunity I'm sorry for language and public health are those two separate things or would they be able to be incorporated together? they'd be together so what kind of Jen's line also actually has case workers that they look for bilingual people to actually go and see locations and came to other places so it's definitely a concept everywhere so the bilingual medical services relates on internship opportunity includes interpreting for patients during the appointments in the exam room castling our wellness programs systems interpreting at the front desk translation of information working with medical providers so those are the kinds of things and we think about it as public health because the clinic serves people who are on the forefront of the most vulnerable population at the state and so we are we are sort of the safety net in terms of healthcare providers so that the clinic doesn't you get to deal with all of those public health issues for vulnerable populations another question I'm a double major in public health and Spanish so that's something I'm definitely very interested in is that like a semester long internship kind of there are a variety of different ways that we can approach it someone else I have a very bio major but I actually last summer and the summer before I worked at a millennium pharmaceutical so I got a lot of I was a gene from the discovery team I worked on several assays that they were doing to get some skills so I was kind of interested to see what Jim's on for he actually had a couple of boys recently switch over to Kata he lost some to you he goes both ways as one of the things he noticed a lot at least on the boxing area a lot of employees do have a job from company to company just because there's so many experiences and opportunities out there like you don't just have to stick with one place you like this and then maybe a year or two later you like that I don't understand no they might want yes very competitive question in Cambridge but there are 15-20 biotech companies that live at two miles radius from each other just walk down the street and find a new one so you don't have to move when you get there if you watch your boxing stuff that is an interesting perspective because in some places or maybe just you would think that it would be best to stay and work up I know there are students that have graduated and gone to Jen's I'm in a state and moved within that company but if you are going different places and picking up new skills you're still desirable even if you might be a flight risk but if you can lend your talent so it's interesting it's a very different world but and you did say that Jen's life was hiring we are hiring it's also like a job it's a huge company that's financed in business, marketing, public relations pretty much every field that you could study Jen has some form of it there's also a very good job potential in the environmental fields it is one of the faster growing realms and we should be growing even faster given the challenges that we have but just to tell you environmental and there's so many new coastal resiliency programs that if you those of you who are a marine in marine biology you are going to be highly desirable because everyone is recognizing the coast is changing fast and communities need to be ready there was just an article out this week that said if you don't want to address the issues you should probably be thinking of moving if you reside in one of those areas that's another big growing field you two are great okay so how about someone else why they chose this channel and that's a great discussion I think Rachel is just waiting to speak well technically I was going to do accounting but I originally used math so you need a lot of options the connection between being able to work with people understanding behavior and choices and skill and math you can take your disciplinary knowledge and your passion for the subjects and then you can apply it to these complex problems I think right now what we are seeing more is the importance of interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary teams so if you have training in one area and a passion in a couple of other places you can really tailor in a way that I think is very special I know a lot of you guys are talking about teamwork and stuff like that and on our campus clubs are really big so keyboards and stuff are kind of different some things like that but eboard is kind of your elected officials leadership when I was applying to colleges I was again on clubs on campus as well and I don't think it'll hurt it depends on what type of job you're looking for but I think it's definitely beneficial to show that you were involved and that you weren't participating and we're seeing that someone people wanted to have a position of powers or a word but that they wanted a leader is this something that you're truly active in and proud of? I didn't put it up definitely 24-7 all day what could hardly think of a field in today's world where teamwork is not used to and so those kind of skills especially in areas where you really were involved and you're happy to see them work with other employees that have similar skills because when you get into this room and you're trying to come to a common goal it's really difficult when one person is sitting there and refuses to work with everybody else and it makes a very difficult environment I think the flip side of that is if you have the same if you have a bunch of people in the room and they're all exactly the same kind of people you're going to get a quality and interesting outcome and you're going to have a lot of people kind of a little whack for each other and the more the more rich the mix so one of those skills is how do you interface when someone is greatly disagreeing with you but they're both good ideas and that process of working that out is very useful and from the academic side just thinking about the students that are applying to our university athletes, clubs, organizations especially when you're on a higher level just shows us that you actually have time management skills that you can devote time to your studies and you're doing very well and you balance the rest of your life as well so it's definitely not possible I saw someone commit a web developer okay so so important for really for a non-profit for business I wanted to to just pull that because then there's this whole other layer of reaching people and outreach and connecting within and without well why don't we please thank our panelists that you took the time to come out and even though I think we have specific questions we've got some time we'll move it up a little bit and then we'll wrap it up in a little bit there's also a reception if anybody is interested in other opportunities there are videos about the clinic subscribe to the world subscribe to some of the opportunities in addition to the ones that you can subscribe and tailor experiences if there's something that you can do that I have to share with you