Gustavus Health Professions Podcast

Kathy Berlin, a Registered Nurse and a Public Health Nurse working on a project as an independent consultant for the MN Private College Council Fund is our special guest. She shares about a National volunteer program, the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) where members have the opportunity to be of service to their community before, during and after public health emergencies. To volunteer, complete an a...

In this episode we learn about both the physical therapy and occupational therapy graduate programs at St. Catherine University. Dr. Klaers and Dr. Person gives insight into each program and what makes their programs unique. Below we have also included links to St. Kates website, as well as links to their social media platforms.  Saint Kates Website Video showcasing student's day in the life Drone...

Curious about what actually Internal Medicine is?  In this episode, Dr. Timothy C. Meyer will help us understand it all. Dr. Meyer is the Medical Director of Primary Care at Ridgeview Clinics and Urgent Care in the Twin Cities. He  has 29 years of experience in the medical field and practices Internal Medicine.  Dr. Meyer is also affiliated with Memorial Medical Center. Job Shadowing at Ridgeview

We welcomed Jennifer Bessette, Career Promotion Coordinator for the American Association of Colleges of Pediatric Medicine to our podcast to learn more about Podiatry and the path to the profession. First we wanted a definition: A podiatrist is a doctor of podiatric medicine (DPM), a physician and surgeon who treats the foot, ankle, and related structures of the leg. • DPMs complete 4-years of med...

Podcast #72 will focus on Nobel Conference 60-Sleep, Unraveled.  We had the pleasure of interviewing this years chair of the conference, Dr. Phillip Voight. He shared with us the details of this years Nobel Conference.  October 1st and 2nd are the dates of the event and all speakers will be in Christ Chapel on the Gustavus Adolphus College campus.   New in 2024 - Nobel Conference is FREE and open...

As a first year pre-health students we want to let you know about a unique pre-health opportunity called the FIG program. FIG stands for First year Interest Group. As a First year student interested in the health professions you have an opportunity to be paired up with an upper-class pre-health student. Your upper-class FIG pre-health leader provides: Access to resources Builds community Provides...

We speak with Victor Solano, Class of 2025 about his summer research internship at St. Jude. He was part of the Pediatric Oncology Education (POE) Internship Program. An internship at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital  gives you a unique training experience while helping children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. St. Jude offers internships, externships and other short-term trai...

Welcome to the Gustavus Health Professions Podcast Season Four!  My name is Heather Banks and I am here with my colleague Heidi Selzler-Bahr and in today’s episode # 70 we have with us Gabe Kardia, who works for an organization called Kesem.   Kesem runs a lot of different support service programs and one they are most notably known for is called Camp Kesem.   This is a Camp that supports children...

Episode #69 is focused on the Engaged Learning Fund.  The Center for Career Development has developed an  ⁠Engaged Learning Fund⁠  thanks to the generosity of Gustavus Alumni donors. These funds are designed to assist students who are in need of funding to complete career related learning opportunities.  Funding can be applied to both academic credit and for non-academic credit opportunities throu...

Episode 68: Innovation Scholars We have guests, current Gusties, Tyler Teichmiller (Mr. Gustavus 2024) and Ally Regenold both from the Class of 2024.  They share with us about the Innovations Scholars program.  We start with the application process, about why they chose to participate and what their biggest takeaways from the experience.  If you are interested in participating in this program we h...

In episode 67, we speak with Associate Professor Kathy Kniepmann , from the Occupational Therapy program from Washington University of St. Louis ( Number three ranked OT program in the nation). Dr. Kniepmann is an occupational therapist and a Certified Health Education Specialist. She serves as both a faculty member for the OT program and also part of the admissions team. There have been a lot of...

Chief Matthew Gustafson, Chief Derrick Milstead,  and Lieutenant Commander Tony Rohner guests in episode #64 for the Navy. The focus of our  podcast will be on the Navy Health Profession Scholarship program.  This scholarship is for students pursuing: medicine, dentistry, optometry and clinical psychology graduate programs.  The recruiters go into detail about what the requirements are to qualify...

Episode 66:  Welcome to the Gustavus Health Professions Podcast Season Four!  My name is Heather Banks and I am here with my colleague Heidi Selzler-Bahr and in today’s episode # 66 we have guests, current pre-med student Amelia Qualey, class of 2025 and current pre-PT student Owen Johnson, class of 2024.   The focus of our episode today is on our two Volunteer programs, the Mayo Clinic Caring Han...

In today's episode we speak with Eric Van Hecke. He is a very enthusiastic guest and loves his career working as a PA. He has recently been named as the Founding PA Program Director, at Concordia University - St. Paul. He offers so much great PA and life advice, as well as all the exciting things about a new PA program underway at Concordia University, St. Paul. The Concordia University - St....

We welcome Torben Urdahl from the graduating class of 2021 to our podcast.  Something fun to know about today’s guest is Torben was actually our very FIRST podcast guest in September of 2020!  Torben is currently in his 3rd year at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Medical School. The focus of today’s podcast will be on Torben’s experience in medical school and what is ahead for him. We are...

Welcome to the Gustavus Health Professions Podcast. This is Heather Banks and I am here with Heidi Selzler-Bahr.  Today we bring you episode #62 where we interview Lucy Lindstrom, Gustavus class of 2022.  Lucy is a current medical school student at the University Minnesota Duluth (link in bio). She shares with us her journey to medical school, details of her current courses she is taking in medica...

Episode 61::  Welcome to the Gustavus Health Professions Podcast Season Four!  My name is Heather Banks and I am here with my colleague Heidi Selzler-Bahr and in today’s episode # 61 we have guest Cynthia Favre, Director of Vocation and Career Readiness Programs in the Gustavus Center for Career Development.   The focus of our Episode today is on the upcoming event this January Interim, Empathy in...

Today we are delighted to have Regan Larson Gustavus Adolphus College graduate of 2022 on our podcast. She is currently at one of the top Physician Associate (physician assistant) schools in the nation. In the 60th episode we will hear about her story and her path to PA school as well as a bit about her time here at Gustavus. Reagan has a very bright future and we are so excited to see what is in...

In today's episode we welcome Kade Copple to our podcast. The focus of our podcast is Summer Research opportunities.  Kade is a Senior Biology Honors major and is a student athlete competing on the Gustavus swim team.  Kade has participated in three summer research opportunities, and he will share his experiences with us today.   Gustavus FYRE program (First year Students) Mayo SURF program UC...

We will be highlighting for you our Advisor trip to St. George University in Grenada.  Grenada is a Caribbean island in the West Indies.  Our visit was focused on their School of Medicine and School of Veterinary Medicine.  We will share with you some of the highlights we learned about the University and from our time on the island.   1.       We were first schooled in how to properly pronounce th...

Phlebotomy program through Mayo College of Health and Science offeres a FREE program to be trained as a phlebotomist. In this episode we speak with guest Cadence Selzler-Campion who this past summer did the 2 month program Mayo free programs infrormation: Phlebotomy-  https://college.mayo.edu/academics/health-sciences-education/phlebotomy-technician-certificate-program-florida-and-minnesota/applic...

Isabel St. Dennis '21 is currently pursuing a masters in speech and language pathology at the University of Minnesota. This is a career that we are certainly seeing as up and coming! Isabel shares her journey with us through Gustavus and now at the U of MN. Speech-Language Pathology Salary for Minnesota ⁠https://www.salary.com/research/salary/benchmark/speech-and-language-pathologist-salary/mn...

In episode 55 Chris Tholkes, Director of the Office of Medical Cannabis at the Minnesota Department of Health.  Chris earned her Bachelor of Science in Community Health from Minnesota State Moorhead and her Masters of Public Administration from Hamline University.  Chris has an extensive background working for the MN Department of Health beginning in 2009, so for the past 14 years has held a varie...

Dr. Travis McKenzie specializes in Endocrine and Metabolic surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He shares his path starting from growing up in Alaska to attending Gustavus, and then medical school at Tufts University, residency in surgery at the Mayo Clinic and two one year fellowships to finish off his surgery training. Dr, McKenzie was a pleasure to speak with and offered many great word...

January Term Career Exploration- Alaska Experience In this episode we hear from the two students that were selected for this opportunity with Capstone Clinic in Wasilla/Palmer Alaska. If you are at all interested in this opportunity or any J-term opportunity this will be a great episode for you to listen to. Here is a link to Capstone Clinic in Alaska https://capstoneclinic.com/