Grace Students Benefit From Orthopaedic Scholar Institute
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WINONA LAKE - Grace College's Orthopaedic Scholar Institute is an extracurricular program created for the best and brightest Grace College business students.
Grace College partners with leading orthopaedic companies in preparing Grace College students to excel as leaders within that international industry.Grace College established OSI partnerships with local industry in 2003 as the result of a grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. Then earlier this year, Lilly Endowment Inc. provided a new grant of $375,000 to be matched with college funds to continue and expand OSI.
In a recent letter to the college, Lilly Endowment Inc. congratulated Grace College for developing a flourishing OSI program and enabling students to prepare for challenges they will face.
Students accepted into the OSI program receive specialized training in communication, image management, group dynamics, personality assessment, anatomy and physiology, interview preparation and other transferable skills that local orthopaedic companies have identified as strengths they are looking for in their interns and employees.
Students also receive individual mentoring during the training process. After months of preparation during the fall and early spring semesters of their junior year at Grace, OSI scholars are then sent to interview for available orthopaedic internships for that summer and/or their senior year.
Through their OSI training and internships, successful scholars are well-prepared and are in a strategic position to be the preferred candidates for full-time orthopaedic employment opportunities.
Why orthopaedics? Warsaw is the "orthopaedic capital of the world," accounting for two-thirds of the $26 billion annual world market share, principally from three companies headquartered within minutes of the Grace College campus - Zimmer Inc., DePuy and Biomet Inc.
The Orthopaedic Scholar Institute connects Grace College students with that orthopaedic industry, simultaneously meeting employment needs of the orthopaedic companies and of the students.
Students are selected for OSI through an application and interview process during their sophomore year at Grace College. Students may be recommended by a professor or their application process may be self-initiated. From those interviews, students are selected for the OSI cohort beginning the following fall semester.
