HPW Student Internship Experience – Jake Damask Fall 17′
Interning at QuadMed has been eye opening and also a learning experience. While working for QuadMed I have been primarily stationed in Wausau at the Greenheck Onsite Health Center. During my internship I have had varying responsibilities. These responsibilities have included: wellness coaching, personal training, group exercise instructing, exercise prescription, fitness center orientations, running tobacco cessation classes and helped facilitate the maintain don’t gain program. Most of these relied around teaching individuals healthy lifestyle habits and keeping them accountable. As a wellness coach you work with all types of people who come from different backgrounds and require their own personal health program. Working in such situations has helped me grow as a health professional and allowed me to utilize the information I have learned from the HPW program at UW-Stevens Point.
Objectives
- Behavior:
- During the duration of the internship hone leadership skills that can help inspire others to work
together and learn to bean effective leader by observing supervisors within the company. - Spend 4 weeks shadowing wellness coaching sessions and lead a lunch and learn on a prevalent
topic. - Throughout the duration of my time at Greenheck I wish to learn haw to conduct myself in a
more professional manner and learn lessons that further my development as a health
professional in the field.
- During the duration of the internship hone leadership skills that can help inspire others to work
- Promotion and Marketing:
- By the end of the internship develop a skillset that is effective at bringing promotional
information of health services to employees at the Greenheck location. - Research and contribute information for content that go out in emails and newsletters to
employees. - Promote a lunch and learn to employees at Greenheck to ensure that those interested in
attending will have received word of when it will be held and what topics it will cover.
- By the end of the internship develop a skillset that is effective at bringing promotional
- Organizational Experiences:
- Sit in on the wellness team while department meetings are being held.
- Discover haw one company runs multiple faces of health atone time (health coaching, fitness
center, etc.) and haw the budget can be influenced from these different programs. - Gain insight of how two different companies can work together to achieve health outcomes for
employees by observing meetings and interactions between QuadMed and Greenheck.
Contact
Mindy Weissenborn
Wellness Supervisor
734 Ross Ave
Schofield, WI, 54476
mkweissen@quadmedical.com
414-566-8196
Hours
40 hours/week
Stipend
$10/hour
UW-Stevens Point Students Who Completed Internship
- Jake Damask, Fall 2017 (pictured above)
- Kristina Bair, Spring 2010