College of Health Sciences and Professions: General Information Session

Good morning everyone and thank you for joining us for the College of Health Sciences and professions. A general information session we're going to get started here in just about a minute or two so we can give some more people some time to jump on here and join us so we will get started shortly.

Once again, good morning everyone and welcome to the remote Ohio up close session for the College of Health Sciences and professions. My name is Sarah White. I'm the assistant Dean for student success in the college. I would like to thank you for taking time out of your Saturday to join us for Ohio close today an I would also like to extend. Well wishes to you and your family. Certainly during this unique unique time. So during the time we have together this morning for our session, that goes until about 11:00 o'clock.

I'm gonna provide a general overview of the College of Health Sciences and professions talk a little bit about each one of our majors and talk about some resources for student success and support that we also have in the college. You should see as part of the presentation today that we have a chat feature open, so please feel free as I'm going along to submit your questions. Please don't feel that you have to wait until the very end to ask questions, or if I'm talking about something but you have a question about something else that's totally fine, go ahead and submit your question, 'cause that certainly the most important thing.

Now that I'm going to do today is answer any questions that you have. So with that, we're going to go ahead and get started. So like I said, We are the College of Health Sciences in professions, we are sometimes referred to as CHP because our college name is relatively relatively lengthy and there's a direct link to our website there at the top of your slide. Ohio.edu/CHP. If you haven't had a chance to visit our website, it's a really good resource with a lot of really good information about opportunities for our students. Information about.

Undergraduate research scholarships. Ways to get involved and also information about all of our programs and our slogan or our brand as a specific academic colleges that this is where everything connects. That's what we believe for all students that select an academic program in our college. So our goal for every student that selects a major in our colleges to Unite your current passion with your future profession. That's what we want to accomplish. For every student within our college. So as you can see where a big college, we have six different academic units.

So all of our programs in our majors are housed within these different academic units to help guide our conversation. This morning, we're going to talk about all of the majors house within these academic areas, beginning with the School of Nursing. So if you have considered nursing as a career, you're going to want to pursue a Bachelor of Science in nursing or a BSN degree. This is a traditional four year degree, just like you would think about most other college degrees. The BSN has become the entry level degree.

For any new professional entering the field for the first time. So basically what that means is if you're not already working as a nurse in some professional capacity, it's very likely that your future employer is going to want you to have a four year degree in nursing, so that's why we offer the Bachelor of Science in nursing through our college. So we are a selective admission program, so students provided they meet our admission criteria, begin as pre nursing students during their first year, and there were required to complete a specific set of courses during their first year in those courses.

Are on a bulleted list that you see here on your screen Hunter. The Bachelor of Science in nursing students have to earn at least a C or better in every class that you see listed there. With the exception of the very last class, students have to earn at least a B minus or better in their introductory nursing course. Additionally, students have to maintain an overall college GPA of at least a 2.75 and then also have additional application criteria to the School of Nursing, including taking and passing within acceptable score. An exam called the Hesi A2.

So the way that the admission to the nursing program works is that students apply during spring semester or the second semester of their first year and they find out upon the conclusion of spring semester, typically over the summer. If they've been accepted into the nursing program. So a question I typically get about nursing is how many students apply and how many students do you accept? So it varies every year. Every academic here, but we advertise ourselves as a 100 seat program. We have never accepted less.

Then 100 nursing pre nursing students into the program. But we have taken more. For example. Recently we accepted around 140 students into the pre nursing major with about 100 or 70 so applicants. So we took the vast majority of students into the program and it also is required as part of the nursing program that students complete clinical rotations as part of their degree. So that's where you're out in the hospitals. Working under the supervision of nurses. But in hospitals with patients, so you get a lot of really good real world experience built right into your degree.

And all of those clinical rotations occur within the state of Ohio, so they happen locally here in Athens and O'blenis Memorial Hospital, which is part of the Ohio health system. They occur in Marietta, Chillicothe, Lancaster, and there's even an optional rotation at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, OH as well.

So that's an overview of our nursing program. Depending on your goals within nursing, if you're considering any type of advanced practice nursing, you know nurse practitioner or anything like that. We also offer various options within the Master of Science in nursing program and also Doctor of nursing practice as well. So if you think of any questions about the nursing program, please feel free to submit those in the chat. I'm not seeing any questions as of right now, so I'm going to go ahead and move on. But if you think of anything about nursing please feel free to submit that question and we will certainly circle back.

So moving on to the school of rehabilitation in Communication Sciences, we have one undergraduate major in this area and that is communication Sciences and disorders. We typically refer to this major as CSD, so if you are really interested in health and Medison and you really want to help people when you see yourself having a profession where you have a lot of interaction with people, maybe in kind of a one on one setting. CSD is a really good major for you to consider, so this is a major that prepares you to work in the field.

Of either hearing or speech. OK, so if you're thinking about going this speech route, that would likely be as a speech language path ologist, or an SLP is a speech language path ologist you could work in the school system. We could work with children. You could work in private practice. You could work in hospitals. You could even work in hospitals and the school system. You could kind of have the best of both worlds if you're thinking about working on the hearing side, that would likely be as an audie ologist. And you could also work in the school system as an audie ologist as well as private practice in hospitals as well.

So again, 2 two professions that have a lot of one on one direct patient interaction. Sometimes students that go into this major, you know they don't really know if they're more interested in either hearing or speech, and that's perfectly fine. Sometimes students think they know if they like one more so than the other, and they may change their minds as they go through their education. It really doesn't matter what situation you're in either way, because you're going to get an equal. You're going to get equal exposure to both hearing and speech. I've got some of the classic classes listed there on the bullet to list of some courses you're going to take, and as you can see.

You're going to take both speech and hearing science, so if you think you know if this sounds really interesting to you, if you're considering either of these career paths. If you think you're going to go to speech route, you do have to earn at least a Masters degree in speech language pathology, and that does often dictate an additional 2 years of school. The good news is we have the Master of our chins, arts and speech language pathology in our college. If you were thinking about going to hearing route, you do have to earn at least a doctor of audiology degree, which is an additional 4 years of school. But we also have the Doctor of audiology program as well. In our.

And our college. So again, if you really are interested in the CSD major and you're thinking about going on to be an SLP or a doctor of audiology, you are looking at some mandatory Graduate School study either way. And Additionally, we also have PhD programs in hearing science and speech language Sciences. If you have any interest in research within the hearing or speech field, or possibly, or interested in becoming a teacher or a college professor in either of those disciplines as well. So again, a really good major to consider if you are looking for a direct patient care profession with a lot.

Of interaction with people. I'm not seeing any questions show up in the chat just yet, but if you have any questions about this program or anything I've said so far, please feel free to go ahead and submit those as well. And for now I'll go ahead and move on.

So two professions I do just want to quickly mention physician Assistant Studies an physical therapy so these are two graduate level professions, but we tend to have a lot of interest in these professions from our brand new student. So I want to make sure I just quickly cover those this morning. So I physician Assistant Studies degree requires that you earn at least a Masters level degree. So physician assistant is someone who works under the direct supervision of a physician, but they can do some medical procedures depending on.

Um, depending on what specialty there working in and depending on exactly where they're working, you know private practice versus a hospital, but a physician assistant program again requires a Masters degree in our Masters program is a 27 month program, so just slightly over two years in our program's house on our campus in Dublin. OH, if you're not from Ohio, that is up around the Columbus, OH area. And if you are from Ohio and you didn't know that we have a campus in Dublin, we do an. If you're considering a career possibly to become a physical therapist or a PT.

You you do now have to have a doctorate level degree to work as a physical therapist, so that requires an additional three years of school and we do offer that program on our main campus in Athens. So before I move on to the next slide.

I see the question is popped up for how early do you get experience in the clinic? I'm assuming that maybe are referring to my previous slide for the rehabilitation in communication Sciences major or the CSD major. So we do have a hearing and speech clinic associated with this major Anna hearing and speech clinic located on the 1st floor of our college. Students have an opportunity in the undergraduate degree to Shadow and observing that clinic and do some research with their professors.

I usually during their sophomore junior and senior years within the program, so it certainly is convenient that we have our own hearing and speech clinic located directly on the 1st floor of our college. And then another question, how many students are in the CSD program? So we usually have about usually 200, maybe 152 hundred students total in the program, usually with the first year class we probably have anywhere from 25 to 40 students initially starting in the program, so it's definitely a good sized major and one that we definitely see build.

My students go on throughout their undergraduate career. You know, we're exploring different healthcare professions and maybe having originally considered or career path and hearing and speech, but often end up selecting this particular major.

And then OK, I'm going to go ahead and move on. Just toggle back to this slide here because I see a question popping up. What is the traditional undergraduate degree for the physician assistant Masters program? Olivia? I would like to thank you for that question. It's almost like I planted you right in the audience. 'cause that's exactly what I'm going to talk about next. So going back to physician Assistant Studies an physical therapy, we can even loop in Occupational Therapy to this conversation as well. Even athletic training. An medical school. So knowing that.

Physician Assistant Studies Physical Therapy in other professions require that you have to go to Graduate School. What should you major in to help you get there? You know? What should you pick for a four year degree? That's really going to lay an excellent foundation for you to achieve your ultimate professional goal. So we're going to talk about some of these options on the next few slides. So the first option we're going to talk about is in the school of Applied Health Sciences and Wellness, and this major is exercise Physiology. So let me explain a little bit about what exercise Physiology.

Is before I explain how it can lay a foundation for some other professions. So exercise Physiology. Students are trained to have a thorough understanding of all human anatomy. They have to understand everything that makes up the human body, how it works, how it all should be working together, and then they have to have a thorough understanding of how everything that works in the human body responds to physical stress or exercise. So using exercise to get a specific result, what that result needs to be depends on the individual.

Individual, patient or client you happen to be working with. So on one side of the coin you could be working with an individual who has just suffered a major health set back or a major health issue and you're trying to use exercise to eliminate that health issue if at all possible, or to try to at least decrease the overall impact that health issues having on that person's quality of life. But then on the other side of the coin, you could be working with a perfectly healthy individual who's looking to increase their overall physical fittness looking to.

Up their exercise and training regimen, or possibly is concerned about injury and using exercise as a preventive measure to prevent injury as well, so that's kind of an overview of what exercise Physiology students are trained to do. So because of the thorough foundation in human anatomy, human Physiology, kinesiology, you know which is human movement, this major is a really good foundation for any type of profession. That's also really hands-on, such as physical therapy, physician, assistant studies.

Occupational therapy, even athletic training. So as you can see here, I've got three different columns set up with the exercise Physiology major. So if you decide you would major in exercise Physiology, you have three different options within this major, so you could just be general exercise Physiology if you're kind of unsure of what pathway you really want to take with the major, you can be pre physical therapy so it has the track has the same exact requirements as the exercise Physiology major.

But within that track we've just built in the requirements for Physical Therapy School. What's really convenient about this track is that those PT school requirements also apply to physician assistant studies programs. So if you were thinking about using exercise Physiology to get to PA school, you could be in the pre physical therapy track as well. And then if you're interested in becoming an athletic trainer, which now requires that you earn at least a Masters level degree, you can do the Pre Athletic Training track, which again just has the requirements for exercise Physiology but just encompasses four undergraduate athletic training courses to help prepare you.

Um, for a graduate program and athletic training. So again, if you're thinking about any of these professions, exercise Physiology is an excellent option to help get you there. But there are some other options to consider. 2 before I move on to that, as I see a question popped up quickly just about the graduate program for speech language pathology. So the question is, are you automatically accepted into the graduate program for speech language pathology? You are not automatically accepted there.

Is a separate application for graduate programs, so in students apply to Masters programs or doctorate programs. They typically apply to multiple programs, and that's true even if you're an undergraduate student applying to Ohio University for graduate program, when I will say is that there are a lot of the good thing about having the undergraduate program in our college as well as the graduate program, even though it requires a separate application. The fact that we have opportunities for research which gives you a lot of opportunity to work.

Work closely, faculty an opportunity to work in our clinic that we have in the building. That's a really good opportunity for you to get involved and get some really good experience that obviously only strengthens strengthens your application internally within our college.

So transitioning back to exercise Physiology again, a really good pathway if you're thinking about physical therapy. Athletic Training, Physician Assistant Studies. But again, some other options to consider is well within the school of applied all Sciences and Wellness. So moving on to nutrition science so you can see there in parentheses. I have pre professional written nutrition. Science is a designated Preprofessional or premed degree specifically in our college. So if you are thinking about going to medical school to become an MD.

Or a DO Doctor of osteopathic Madison. Nutrition Science is a great major for you to consider, but the reason it's categorized as a preprofessional degree and not a premed degree is because nutrition science can serve as a foundation into all types of other professions. That includes pharmacy, optometry, dentistry, even of Engineering program as well. So any type of high level medical or health related profession that requires that you.

Earn additional education. Nutrition science is an excellent foundation for those professions as well. That's because this major is made up of a lot of our high level science and math courses that you need to get into programs like medical school and pharmacy. But nutrition science can also be used as a foundation into programs like physical therapy, physician, Assistant Studies, Athletic Training, Occupational Therapy. All of those things. So what makes this different? What makes the nutrition science major?

Different from a traditional science degree like biology for example, is that on top of all this math and science that you're required to take, you know, within the Human Sciences only is that you take a core of nutrition courses. Nutrition is relevant across healthcare disciplines. It applies to everything. OK, it's a relevant concept. Regardless of what your interest, maybe within health and medicine, which is why it serves as a really good foundation note, regardless of what your professional goals maybe. So again.

If you were thinking about physician assistant studies, or possibly physical therapy or even medical school, you have choices that that's, I think, the most important takeaway you could pick. Exercise Physiology could also pick nutrition science, so really just depends on where your interest may lie now. Does that mean those are your only options that you have for PT or PS4 medical school? Absolutely not. You can really pick any major as long as you have a strong foundation in the human Sciences. Especially so really, you can pick any major. But these are just the two that we tend to pretty strongly recommend.

Because they have all of those classes already built into the curriculum so I always encourage students pick. The major that interests. You the most because you're going to be motivated. You're going to be excited and therefore you're going to do well now. If you're really interested in the nutrition field like you really, really like it and you think that's what you want your career to be and that's what you see yourself doing for the rest of your life. The applied nutrition. Major is the major for you to consider so applied nutrition is for students that want to work in the nutrition field specifically.

So if you see yourself working as possibly a registered dietitian, so working directly in the hospital system or working in private practice, working directly with patients and clients, applied nutrition is the major for you. We also have a track I that works in environmental nutrition. If you are interested in sustainability and agriculture and nutrition and how that all ties in together and then we also have a culinary nutrition concentration within this major. If you're more interested actually on the food preparation.

Sign of the nutrition field an possibly going on to work in something like school nutrition. So again, if you're really interested in nutrition field and that's the area, see yourself working in applied nutrition is the better track for you to consider. So if again if you have any questions about the nutrition science degree, the applied nutrition or exercise Physiology that was on the previous slide, please feel free to go ahead and submit those in the chat. But for now I will go ahead and move onto.

The next slide.

So switching gears here a little bit moving on to our Department of Social and public health, we have a lot of undergraduate majors in this area that I'd like to cover this morning. Beginning with community in public health. So I have to say I've been doing this presentation for almost 10 years, and when I talk about community and public health, sometimes I have to go into a little bit more of a deeper explanation of public health. An exactly what that might mean, an what a public health crisis, or what a public health emergency.

May look like, uhm, I don't know that I ever thought that I would be giving this presentation in talking about public health. While we are very much living in the reality of a public health emergency. So with everything that's been going on for the past few months with the current code pandemic. If this is something that has really peaked your interest as a future Healthcare Professional, you just think you know you're hearing about community health workers.

Or public health experts and Department of Public health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This is something that has just peaked your interest and you want to know more and you want to learn more about everything that's happened. The community and public health major is exactly what address is everything that's happening in the world right now. So public health experts look at the health of the public and that can sometimes mean your local community. That can mean your city.

Your County, you know when things happen at a little bit more of a smaller level when it's more of an outbreak or when things if it applies directly to your state or your region or your country or the world. You know that you're looking at the health of the public and what the public needs. We gotta make sure we gotta get the correct information out to the public. Make sure people know what resources they have at their disposal, where they can go to get their question. Answer questions answered, how?

How they can get the help that they need? That's what community and public health experts do. So again, if you buy living through this right now, if you've really maybe gained a new interest in something community and public health is an excellent major for you to consider to work as a community health worker, you don't have to have a Masters degree now, depending on the professional goals that you have. If you want to be the director of a Department of Public health or a health Department at more of a local level, or if you see yourself working for the State Department.

Or possibly working for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, usually having a Masters degree can help you get there. We do have a Masters degree in public health or an MPH available for our college that will be 100% available on line again. Not mandatory to work in the field, but depending on your goals can certainly be helpful now. Environmental Health Science is very much a specific branch of community and public health or just public health in general. It's focusing on the environmental health of the public, as I'm sure you can probably gather, so environmental health experts are looking at environmental factors.

And how they can possibly pose a risk your health and they work to prevent that. Or if an emergency does occur, working to resolve that situation to make sure the public stays in form, so that can apply to situations like air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution, waste Management, Land Management, Water management. So again specifically focusing on environmental health factors is an environmental health practitioner. You can go on to work for hospitals health department's really at.

Any level, and we've even had graduates of ours go on to work for the government in civilian positions, so typically with an environmental health, again, a Masters degree or any advanced education. Not often required, but again, depending on your goals or interests, the most relevant field that would directly relate to the major would be a Masters degree in public health. Now, Occupational Hygiene and safety students. They actually do the exact same thing is environmental health students, but they're focused on one specific type of environment.

And that is the workplace. So essentially you can think about this major is looking at workplace safety. Now we have Occupational Hygiene and safety experts that work at Ohio University. You know they come into my office and they make sure you know the ventilation systems working property properly. You know a ceiling tiles and going to fall on my head while I'm in a meeting with a student. You know nothing like that. But someone like me I'm considered to have a relatively low risk job for injury. The likelihood of me getting injured by carrying out the duties of my job.

That is very, very slim, but there are instances where the risk of injury is ever present when individuals are carrying out the duties of their job. So if you think of industrial settings, factory settings, that really is where policy procedure in safety measures have to be adhered to every day to the letter because the risk of someone getting injured or worse is is really likely if those measures are not followed. So an example that we often give is that Occupational Hygiene and safety.

Experts often can go on to work for an organization like OSHA, for example.

So if any additional questions about those programs or any anything again that I've talked about up to this point, feel free to put those in the chat as I go ahead and move on to some additional majors so other majors within Department of Social and public health.

We have a health services administration and long term Healthcare administration majors. These are two programs that are really more focused on the business. An administrative side of the health care industry. So as a student, if you are really interested in health in Madison in hospitals like you think it would be really neat to work at a hospital someday. But you're not totally sold on the idea of working with needles or working with blood.

We're medication, or really anything like that, but you're still really interested in health, an Medison Ann helping people. Health Services Administration, an long term Healthcare administration are excellent majors to consider. All of the students that we have in this program are super interested in health care and health and helping people there, just not totally sold on the idea of having a direct patient care type of major. But they still really want to work with people, so if that sounds like you, these are two really good majors to consider. Health Services administration is really general.

You can work for any health care industry or any health care office or service that's rendering healthcare services so it can be from a local community clinic that provides free immunizations to their community members all the way up to a major health care system like the Cleveland Clinic that has multiple locations. OK, so you're working for any health care, any health care industry that's rendering healthcare services there.

Always have to be people in a team of people in place to effectively run that organization, so to work in Health Administration again, typically not required.

That you have additional or advanced education, but depending on your goals, having a Masters degree can be helpful. So for example, if you want to be the president.

Of a hospital or the chief information officer of a major health care organization usually having a Masters degree can be helpful. Typically you would earn a Masters degree in health services administration and we do have that degree option available. 100% online typically takes about two years to complete. Long term Healthcare Administration majors do the exact same thing as Health Services administration majors, but again, they're focused on one specific type of the health care industry and those are long term health care facilities.

In the long term, Healthcare administration major does Provide students the eligibility to sit for the license license, nursing home administrator exam. So there is a certification and license or exam to be a nursing home administrator that you must take in our major perfectly prepare students to sit for that exam.

And then the last major in our Department is the child and family studies major. So if you are really interested, excuse me in health and Medison possibly working with children, this is an excellent major for you to consider. So one of the tracks that we have within this program is the child and family. Urged me, the child life specialist concentration and this is where you are directly working with children in the hospital system. So your job is a certified child. Life specialist is to normalize the hospital experience for children.

So typically you're working with children instance where they are in the hospital hospital for a prolong or significant period of time. This can be due to a chronic or perhaps even terminal illness. So an example that we sometimes give is that you could be working in a hospital in pediatric oncology, or working with children that have cancer. So again, your job is to normalize the hospital experience you are trained to do things like medical play, helping children find ways to cope with, perhaps difficult.

Treatments or medication and you're there to be. You know you're there to provide honest answers to the honest questions that they have you find a way to bring and breakdown. The information to a level where they can understand? What's happening and cope with what's going on also a lot of times in these instances where you're working with a child in the hospital. They're going to have a support system of family members around them and things like this can have an impact on the entire familial unit so you're there, not only as a resource for the child, but you're also there is a resource for the entire family as well.

So again, if you're really interested in health in Madison and possibly working with children, the child and family studies major is what you would want to consider with the child life specialist concentration specifically and to work as a child life specialist. You do have to earn at least a Masters level degree. We do have the Masters degree in child and family studies to work as a child life specialist. We have that program available. We have a two year degree option as well as a what's called a four plus one option for students with advanced standing within the program.

To finish the degree, an one year as opposed to two, I'm not seeing any additional questions yet, so I'm going to go ahead and move on, but again, feel free to post any questions you have in the chat so the last academic unit I'm going to mention this morning is our Department of Social Work, so this is where our social work programs are housed, and we have two degree options for our social work students. You have the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science and social work. The only difference between the two is that The Bachelor of Arts option has a mandatory to your foreign language requirement.

The Bachelor of Science does not only difference between the two, 1 degree is not looked upon more favourably within the social work field. It really just depends on you as a student whether or not you feel that having a background in foreign language would be beneficial for you. Depending on your career goals. So this is another selective admission major within our college, so students are required to complete two introductory social work. Course is a general biology course.

I psychology course and in general math course as well as a general English course. As long as you earn at least a C or better in every class and maintain a college GPA of at least a 2.5, you will be accepted into the major. So what's really great about our social work programs is that they have a huge community focus, so you're definitely going to get some real world experience for the practicums in the field experience that we require is part of your degree. That can happen as early as your first year within your second class within the pre major.

And then you have field experience in practicum experience that continue throughout your education as well. So you're definitely going to get some exposure to helping and making a difference right away within your undergraduate degree with just a bachelors degree in social work. You can go on to work in a lot of different areas with human service agencies, child welfare, adoption services, the juvenile court system. Really, a lot of opportunities to work with people, but again, depending on your goals, if you see yourself working more and kind of counseling, setting or working as a licensed social worker.

You are often want to pursue a Masters degree and we have lots of opportunities with our Masters degree in social work. We have the degree 100% online. We have a one year advance standing program and then variations of full time and part time programs as well. So lots of options for you to consider as a future social worker, especially if you start with an undergraduate degree of social work at Ohio University. So I'm going to transition from talking specifically about academics. With our last few minutes here. Just about more general information.

But again, keep those questions coming about any of our specific programs that you may have.

Very quickly just about learning communities we do have learning community options. As you can see on the right hand side here for every major in our college. Some similar majors are married together and share learning community and then we have the introduction of Health Sciences and professional learning community. If you're undecided in our college, so if you know that you are really interested in health and Medison and of all the majors that I just discussed more than one sounds really interesting and you have no idea which one you may like better or which one.

You should choose. Please do not feel pressured or obligated to choose. You can comment as an undecided student in our college and we will help you plan a really good schedule for your first semester. That helps you explore everything that you're interested in while also keeping you on track. So the way that a learning Community Works is that students take a UC 1900 into the college experience course together. There's usually about 20 to maybe 25 students in that class. You only take about two or three additional classes together. You're not going to have the exact same class schedule.

But that way you got some people that you do know in your other classes you can sit together, you know, ask questions, study together if you have group projects, you can work together. Learning communities are not required in our college, but strongly, strongly encouraged.

Quickly we just have some resources in our college to help our students. We have the peer mentor program, which is a really good way for students to get involved because we connect you with an upper class student in your exact major, or if you are undecided, we pair you with a mentor that also started out is undecided and there basically just there to give you all kinds of insight and advice about what they learned at their time it to you so far ways to get involved, connected to other students. It's a really successful program and it certainly only voluntary.

And if there is something that sounds really interesting to you, we will have an opportunity for you to sign up during bobcat student orientation. In June, every student is assigned an academic advisor. You will not be going this journey alone during our first year. First year you were assigned a professional academic advisor, and that's all they do round the Clock. His advise students they are your main touchpoint for everything. We answer questions about your schedule, keep you on track. If you're thinking about changing your mind about anything. If you're looking to take classes.

Closer to home how you can transfer those back and then just any general questions that you have. If you don't know where to start, you always start with your academic advisor and we will get you in the right direction and then after your first year you are transition to a faculty member within your exact major and then if you're an undecided student, you are assigned a specific academic advisor that works with undecided students 'cause they have the added responsibility of helping you explore your interests and help you find the best major for you. We also again have learning community specifically for undecided students in a class called.

Test 1200, which is survey of Healthcare Professions where we bring in faculty members from all of our majors to talk to you a little bit more in detail as well as actual working healthcare professionals to talk to you about what they do and why they like their job and how they how they got interested in their field. That's a class open to every student, any student in our college can take that, but certainly can be really helpful for undecided students as they figure out the best major for them.

We also have the career leadership development center, so when it comes time to apply for an internship, look for a summer job. Apply to Graduate School graduate and apply to your first job. We're going to be there to help the entire way. We have someone who works directly in our career leadership Development Center, but specifically for students in our college. Because her specialty area is the health care industry, so she's going to be there to help you write that resume. Proof that resume work with you on mock interviews help you connect with employers. Help you network.

Give you good opportunities to go to job fairs or connect with professional resources. She's going to be there throughout your entire college journey while also helping you work on your leadership skills as well.

And then quickly this.

A list of some of our student organizations affiliated with the college getting involved is a really good a really good thing to do, especially within your first year at the University. So there's ways that you can get involved specifically more with your major or more if you have. I just kind of a general interest, it's a really good way to connect with students again within your exact major or possibly students in other majors in our college. But you share a common interest and want to get involved, so it's a really good way to not only get involved with the University.

But also get involved with the local Athens community as well. And then if you haven't had a chance to visit our campus in Athens, OH, or if you're just not familiar with southeast Ohio in general, and you're concerned that there aren't opportunities to get involved, get some real world experience and make a difference. That's certainly not the case. These are just some of the examples of partnerships and initiatives that we have is a college. We're always looking for student involvement with everything that you see listed here. So lots of good ways for our students to get involved. Make a difference.

Get some real world experience that's really going to benefit you in the long run. Typically I always get a question. If you see under initiatives there about the bloody nursing challenge an what could that possibly be? That is just a blood drive that all of the students in our School of Nursing host in conjunction with the American Red Cross, but that the name of the bloody nursing challenge. I certainly is eye catching and tends to garner a lot of interest, so this is my contact information. Again, my name is Sarah White since we're all working remotely right now. The best way to get in contact with me initially is through.

Email always happy to do a one on one chat through a chatroom, typesetting always happy to do a video call or a phone call if you have any additional questions. After today, we've got just a handful of minutes left as part of our session this morning. So if there are any additional questions that you have or just someone general questions about the college, our resources, Ohio University, or even just Athens in general, I'm happy to answer any last minute questions that you have and I will stay on here for the last few minutes.

And I'll just say, as we're kind of wrapping up here if you don't have any questions, you know that's perfectly fine. I would just like to thank you once again for taking time out of your out of your weekend out of your day to just spend some time here with Ohio University is we're working remotely. I hope. I certainly hope this was helpful. I know it's a lot of information. I'm in a very short amount of time, so like I said, again, please don't hesitate to reach out with more questions, especially if something I said You know, really peaked your interest and you just want some more information.

I'd be happy to connect you with any faculty members within our program if you like to be connected to any current students within a major. Happy to do that as well. That's a really good thing. I have to say about Ohio University and the bobcat family. Is that our students are always so happy to talk about Ohio University in their majors and really just share that with any future student that may be considering Ohio University as well. Also, if you haven't signed up for.

Bobcat student orientation. Yet that's taking place in June. I certainly encourage you to do that as well. It will be held in a remote setting for June, but we've been doing orientation for a very long time, so that's going to be the best way for us to deliver the orientation this summer to prioritize your safety again. We've got about one just under one minute left here. I think with our session. So again, if you aren't comfortable submitting any questions in the chat here again, that's my email address.

And again, I just want to thank you for taking your time out of your day. I wish you nothing but the mass and hope that you and your family are staying safe and well during this time. Thank you again for joining us. We certainly hope to see you at Ohio University very soon.