Compass is a leadership program for graduate and undergraduate health-professions students looking for opportunities to get involved in projects and events. You will take the lead on OHWI-supported activities and gain valuable experience in building community and practicing the skills vital to your career goals.
Mentor Program
- Mentors offer leadership and guidance to those who are seeking community while pursuing their path into healthcare. These mentor-mentee groups will be interprofessional and elaborate on the need for openness and adaptability in pursuing careers.
- There will be two mandatory trainings in coaching for mentors, although anyone, including mentees, are allowed to attend. There will be additional trainings on interprofessional leadership with alumni and current practitioners to build these skills in mentors.
Cross-Educational Affinity Groups (first gen college, identity)
- Build community and discuss lived experience with pre-health students and health professions students. Help create groups and design your meet-ups for building a specific community.
Lectures, Faculty Panels, Movie Screenings
- Help us decide on topics and formats for events involving media, professionals, lectures and faculty panels or discussion groups to answer questions you have, enjoy specific interests, or arrange networking with practitioners and local clinics that you are interested in.
Simulated Job Shadows
- Observation hours, and their underlying purpose to understand what the daily life and requirements of different healthcare workers are like, can be difficult to access and arrange. Simulated job shadows using virtual experiences or in-person volunteers instead of patients, provide opportunities to see this daily life and skills that practitioners require without as much hassle.
Volunteering and Service
- Serving your community is shown to build resiliency to burn out, something that you need to be a healthcare provider in this day and age. Help find volunteer events and recruit others to attend, and break down the purpose behind building healthcare professionals who believe in helping their neighbors.