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Exploring the Physician Assistant profession at Bronson Methodist Hospital
No full text1 Broadside. 48"W x 36"HDuring the summer of 2022, I worked on my senior individualized project (SIP) by shadowing a Kalamazoo College alumna called Sherin John, MPH, PA who is a primary care provider specializing in cardiology at Bronson Methodist Hospital located in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan. During the shadowing experience, the role I played was a pre-physician assistant student observing as a job shadow. When entering a patient’s room, Sherin would introduce me to the patient and ask for their permission if it were acceptable for me to observe, and normally, Sherin would introduce me to patients as a pre-physician assistant student of hers. My main work consisted of following Sherin throughout her shift, within the clinic and hospital setting. During this, I kept a very detailed notebook that highlighted the focus of each day. This shadowing experience has allowed me to better understand the collaborative efforts that occur within the healthcare field when it comes to being a PA.Kalamazoo College. Department of Biology. Diebold Symposium, 202
Experiential Internship as a Business Process Analyst : Emergent Holdings of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
No full text6 p.Emergent Holdings is a subsidiary of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan that consists of different departments such as Blue Cross Complete, Senior Health Services, Corporate Functions, Emergent, and AF (Accident Fund) Group which is also composed of sub departments. Throughout the summer, I specifically worked with the Senior Health Services department that manages Medicare Advantage members, or members over the age of 65. Medicare Advantage is Part C of health insurance, so this department manages Part C and the costs of Part and B, which is considered Original Medicare. They also work with both Medicare Advantage PPO and HMO, also known as BCNA, networks. As a business process analyst intern with Senior Health Services, I got the opportunity to work closely with Sarah Kyle (my mentor and program manager), Lynn West (my team’s leader and managing director), and Dawn Worton (Stars program manager). While working with Sarah, I learned about the Key Accounts that the department manages that include State of Michigan, Michigan Public School Employee Retirement System, and United Auto Works Trust. Additionally, we worked on a campaign for a SHS vendor called Solera that administers a diabetes prevention program for members who are pre-diabetic or at-risk. Alongside the campaign, I created a resource guide for the vendor for not only internal employees, but new hires who would need to know the important Solera details. With Dawn, I worked on Star Ratings which is a five-star quality rating system that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) uses to measure the experiences that Medicare beneficiaries have with their health plan and healthcare system. Health plans are rated on a scale of one to five stars with five being the highest. Part of this rating system includes Consumer Assessment of Healthcare and Providers and Systems (CAHPS), Health Outcome Survey (HOS), and Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS)
My Experience as a Campbell Scholar’s Mentor
No full textiv, 6 p.This reflection accounts for my summer experience as a mentor with the Campbell Scholars Program and the lessons I learned. Here, you will see an overview of the ten-year college-access program and its academic resources to promote educational success for its scholars. I will also discuss the training I underwent to prepare for my role as a mentor for eighth-grade scholars and a typical day in the program. Working with nineteen first-generation students helped me develop counseling and emotional support skills. I applied these skills best by understanding each scholar’s unique circumstances and mindsets, allowing me to create personalized help for them. The biggest takeaway from this experience is realizing my passion to continue using my knowledge and helping children from low-income, underprivileged backgrounds
Evaluating habitat preferences in three threatened grassland birds
No full text1 Broadside. 48"W x 36"HAgriculture and urbanization have caused a dramatic decrease in grassland ecosystems in Michigan. As a result, grassland bird species are threatened with their populations almost unilaterally in decline. Grasshopper sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum), Henslow’s sparrow (Centronyx henslowii), and Dickcissel (Spiza americana) are grassland sparrow species, each with unique habitat needs. These species are desirable for land managers because they are indicators of a healthy grassland ecosystem but management for one can often be detrimental to the management for the others. This research seeks to evaluate habitat preferences of these three species to inform management strategies in Michigan’s grasslands.Kalamazoo College. Department of Biology. Diebold Symposium, 202
Strangers in Winslow : A Portion of a Novel
No full textxiii, 244 p.The author introduces her original novella with a discussion of her influences and interest in horror and vampire literature
"Made with My Own Fingers When My Heart was Full" : Motherhood and Material Culture in the Lives of Three 19th Century Women
No full text113 p.Strict gender roles and expectations for women rooted within separate spheres ideology became foundational to American society during the nineteenth century. Separate spheres ideology dictated that women should remain in the private sphere, inside the home, focused on their roles as a mother and a wife. Women remained confined to the home because society decided they were more naturally moral and needed to be protected from the outside, public sphere that would corrupt their morality. Conversely, men dominated the public sphere, as they worked outside of the home and controlled systems seen as masculine, like the Church and political structures. Within the household, families expected women to create a moral home as a refuge from the outside world. This expectation put women in charge of managing the household, creating a strictly gendered division of labor. Cooking, cleaning, and child rearing all became distinctly feminine roles and the home itself became feminized. As the nineteenth-century family centered around children, women in the home started to be defined as mothers more than ever before. Motherhood became synonymous with femininity as women's roles within the home focused on caring for children. Separate spheres ideology made women responsible for their children's wellbeing, both physically and spiritually. Good wives and mothers kept Christian households that displayed morality. Women's status as mothers had the potential to give them power. In the north, women used motherhood and moral superiority to push moral reform movements that they believed in. In the south, society constructed motherhood incredibly differently along strict racial divides. Plantation mistresses became mother figures to their households, infantilizing enslaved people. Motherhood in the lives of enslaved women looked incredibly different, as slave owners constantly threatened to, and did, separate and harm families. For many nineteenth-century women, motherhood played a central part in their lives. Their identity as a mother affected many of the choices they made and the agency they had inside and outside of the household. Studying material culture and physical space helps connect with the women of the past. Looking at the things women handled and the places they inhabited helps to ground them within their own lives and helps historians understand the world they live in. Additionally, material culture allows the past to be understood beyond written documents. For many women, especially women of color, who were often not literate or whose lives were not as well preserved in written documents, the study of material culture can be groundbreaking. Material culture provides the opportunity to examine areas of domestic life that were not included as significantly in written documents. By analyzing the objects women used and cherished as well as the spaces they interacted with, much more can be understood not only about the importance of race, class, and the regions they lived in, but also the agency nineteenth-century women had within these societal structures. Examining and comparing the lives of women through material culture and physical space can reveal differences between women, particularly women of different races, different social statuses, and different locations. Material culture and physical space influenced the challenges Harriet Jacobs, Angelica Singleton Van Buren, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton faced and how they overcame the obstacles within their lives, particularly in their early adulthood. Comparing the lives of these three women reveals stark contrasts along the lines of race, class, and location. Tracing common biographical threads such as their roles within the household and their roles as mothers, shows how these women viewed and used similar material culture items, like clothing and household objects, and physical spaces in their homes in very different ways
Maintaining Community and Identity as a Ugandan Post Expulsion
No full text1 broadside. 48"W x 36"HOn August 4th, 1972, Asians in Uganda woke up to a nightmare: they had 90 days to leave the country, an order put in by Idi Amin, the President of Uganda. The expulsion left a large part of Uganda’s population under extreme duress. Uganda was their home and had been their home for multiple generations. All Ugandan Asians were forced to leave their homes, their livelihoods, but where would they go now that they had no home? If they were British citizens or British Protectorates, they became refugees but if they were Ugandan citizens, they became stateless. And regardless of their citizenship status before the expulsion, they lost their identity as Ugandans and were forced to obtain another in order to survive. As they dispersed to all parts of the globe such as England, Canada, and India, the communities, and identities they had built in Uganda would forever be changed. Belonging to a community or to a nation are feelings that help create an identity, both as an individual and a community. But how can you form and maintain an identity if that belonging is forcefully taken away? This research, and its findings from the conducted interviews, in conjunction with current literature surrounding the expulsion and theories of belonging, individual and national identity, and community, answer this main question, showing how that even through losing their homes, Ugandan Asians were able to rebuild and maintain communities and reform their identities post expulsion.Kalamazoo College. Department of Anthropology and Sociology and Human Development and Social Relations (HDSR). Hightower Symposium, 202
Prattle
No full textix, 30 p.One of the big uniting spirits of the collection is the idea of preservation, whether it be preserving honor, youth, or self-preservation. This idea of protecting something stems from my own future worries as well as observing those around me. It's no secret that people fear aging or change, and it's only natural to want to conserve as much as possible. Another major concept used in the poems is death. Whether it be confronting one's own mortality, witnessing death, or finding decay. During the time I was writing my SIP, I spent a considerable amount of time watching true crime documentaries. Hearing about the horrors of what other people could do to another. Another moment that inspired this fascination with death was when I worked on my first cadaver. The smell of decay, the feeling of grey skin, the empty cavity after I took their organs out. It's something that doesn't leave you. Lastly, the final piece connecting my poems together stems from depression
A Summer at AACORN: The Roles of Psychology and Nature in Health
No full text1 Broadside. 48"W x 36"HLast summer, I participated in a community building internship with AACORN through the Center for Civic Engagement. AACORN (Adult Agricultural Community Option for Residential Needs) is a non-profit day program that was created for adults with mental and physical disabilities. In my role as vocational program intern, I was able to strengthen my skill set regarding patience and communication while integrating the teachings of my psychology courses within my lived experiences on the farm.Kalamazoo College. Department of Biology. Diebold Symposium, 202
Witches vs. Women: A study of the Church’s perception of women in the Middle Ages.
No full text43 p.This essay dissects Question VI of Part I in the Malleus Maleficarum. First, it gives an overview of historical context about the years surrounding the publication of the book. It informs readers of the religious beliefs commonly held at the time that affected the writing of the Malleus Maleficarum, then it gives a short historiography about other works written about the Malleus Maleficarum, witchcraft, and religion. Next, this paper explains how someone became a witch and what exactly a witch was according to Heinrich Kramer and the people of the fifteenth century. The core of this essay focuses on the connection between the Bible and the three main claims about women made in the Malleus Maleficarum: the idea of the lack of intelligence of women, then shifts to women’s skill in the art of deception, and the idea of the insatiable carnal lust of women. This essay argues that sexism in witchcraft originated and later was justified by Christianity. Sexism was promoted through works such the Malleus Maleficarum and defended with religious teachings about women. It shows how Henrich Kramer used the Bible to support his claims and therefore make them valid in the eyes of his community. And that this use of religion in defense of his claims gave little room for readers to criticize his theory because they too could be accused of witchcraft or heresy if they did not submit to the Christian viewpoint