Franc Notes: Brief Insights into the Interprofessional Healthcare Student Experience

Welcome to the Marian University Health Professions student-run blog—Franc Notes! Franc Notes is a student-run blog-style platform where we, as students, FRANCly write articles about all things health professions! This is a chance for collaboration among all the health professions programs at Marian University and to learn more about one another!

Our origins are rooted in the FRANCiscan values Marian University upholds, and combine a fun play on words with "SOAP NOTES," a term all healthcare workers will get used to using immediately in their careers for medical record documentation!

If you are a Marian University student, staff, or faculty member who would like to contribute an article to Franc Notes, join the Canvas Page to follow a guided submission process. If you are an alumnus or an interested author, send an email to francnotes@marian.edu to obtain more information!

We want students to use this platform as a chance for career exploration and self-reflection. New issues will be released on Mondays, containing at least one reflection based on an interview with a healthcare professional in a specific specialty. The first series will be entitled "DO Diaries," where osteopathic medical students interview physicians. These articles will be dropped by specialty. For example, our first release month, September, will feature Family Medicine specialty interviews. In addition, other articles that may be published could span anywhere from summer self-reflections, program-specific spotlights, extracurricular opportunities, and concepts in the field of healthcare in general!

We thank you for taking the time to explore Franc Notes! If you are a new student to Marian University whose program is housed within the Evans Center, be sure to check out the following article: "Welcome to the Evans Center."

Questions? Please e-mail us at francnotes@marian.edu.

Follow us on Instagram @francnotesmu.

Franc Notes Founding Students

The authors of this introductory article are the leaders and founders of Franc Notes. These four osteopathic medical students work closely with the Graduate Medical Education team to help increase opportunities for career exploration.