完美的配合

当Stephanie Goike, M.D., 回忆起她在OUWB的面试, a smile beams across her face as she recalls how she felt after the fact.  

这是因为一开始, Goike(姓Schley), OUWB”15, primarily saw it as an opportunity to travel home to Michigan from the west coast and visit family. If the interview went well, then great, she says, but OUWB wasn’t her first choice.

不过，事情变化很快.

She fell in love with just about everything about the then-new school. Such feelings would eventually dictate the course of her career — and her personal life.

她说:“这次经历让我震惊. “I always think about coming home from the interview that night and how excited I was and how that’s just led me to this whole path I never could have imagined.”

Today, she is an emergency medicine physician at Corewell Health’s Beaumont Hospital, 特洛伊.

另外, 她是OUWB的急诊医学助理教授, 担任特洛伊OUWB的网站总监, and is a mentor for members of the OUWB Class of 2024 through the school’s PRISM program. 

她表示:“OUWB仍在成长、变化和发展。. “I constantly see opportunities to give back to my alma mater and help it continue to grow.”

传递爱

Goike grew up near Kalamazoo, Michigan, where she attended Mattawan High School.

她的母亲是一位药剂师, and her father was an architect who specialized in health care facilities, 这意味着Goike是在医学环境中长大的,，并被这个职业所吸引.

高速学校, she stayed near home and attended Western Michigan University after receiving a merit-based full-tuition scholarship. She earned two bachelor’s degrees: one in French and another for biomedical science.

As she neared graduation at Western, Goike says her parents asked her an important question.

“They reminded me that the scholarship had afforded me a great educational experience and asked me how I was going to pay it forward,她说。.

She admits to being a bit stumped until a friend told her about the Teach for America (TFA) program. 根据其网站, TFA is a nonprofit that recruits and selects college graduates from around the U.S. to serve as educators who commit to teaching for at least two years in a public school in one of the 50+ low-income communities that the organization serves.

Goike申请并匹配了Gompers中学, 位于洛杉矶中南部的瓦茨社区. 她教过的学生, 100%获得免费或减价午餐, 约65%的儿童被寄养或安置在集体之家, 有些人住在车里. Most of the eighth graders she taught read at a third-grade level or lower.

Goike说她喜欢教书. 如此如此, 事实上, that she earned a master’s in education from Loyola Marymount University while serving as a member of TFA.

她说:“我一直以为自己会成为一名医生。. “突然间，我开始教书了，而且真的爱上了这份工作.”

在十字路口, Goike says she “wanted to see medicine” before making a decision about which career she would fully embrace.

让自己完全沉浸其中，挑战自己的极限, 她去坦桑尼亚传教了, 她在阿鲁沙的一家医院工作.

她称这是她第一次接触“真正的医学”.”

“太神奇了，”Goike说. “It afforded me opportunities to see things and experience medicine in a way that I wouldn’t have been otherwise afforded.”

除此之外, she would sit in on various surgeries and have duties like holding flashlights for doctors when the power went out. 她参与了艾滋病毒和艾滋病患者的治疗, 肺结核, 疟疾, 以及其他在非洲更常见的疾病.

她在那里待了一个月，这就是她所需要的.

“Seeing the medicine side of everything…I realized that my heart really was into it,她说。. “一直以来，我想成为一名医生都是对的.”

“一个了不起的机会”

Goike回到了美国.S. and her teaching job in Los Angeles, but with a renewed purpose to throw herself into medicine.

She focused on applying to Michigan medical schools with hopes to get back home and be closer to family. OUWB was among the schools at which she interviewed — and it had a huge impact on her.

“我无法停止谈论它，”她说. “It just seemed to align with all the things I had learned through teaching about things that help students excel, 这将帮助我成为一名出色的未来医生.”

While she says it was a bit daunting to eventually be part of a new medical school’s first class in 2011, 更令人兴奋的是能参与学校的建设.

“这真的是一个很棒的机会，”Goike说.

The “good energy” she felt from Interview Day continued throughout her four years at the school.

她说，教职员工似乎“真的对我们很投入”, 不仅仅是作为学生, 但是作为个人.”

“They really cared about us and what we can bring back to the community,” says Goike.

Stephanie Goike, M.D.她和丈夫乔·高艾克育有两个孩子. (图片来源:Chuck Cloud)

在OUWB工作期间, Goike, 除此之外, helped start the school’s American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) chapter, 计划的临床技能活动, 还花了一个春假去尼加拉瓜执行医疗任务.

Her favorite memory of OUWB is the overall feeling of family she felt with the other 49 people in the school’s inaugural class.

“OUWB是一个大家庭，”她说. “我和大多数以前的朋友仍然是朋友.”

她甚至遇到了后来成为她丈夫的男人, 乔Goike, 通过她的同学和现在的姐夫, 乔纳森Goike, M.D. (谁也会 继续结婚 另一位同学，劳里·博索里，M.D.)

离开OUWB

When Goike matched in emergency medicine at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, she says she was ready.

“我觉得自己准备得非常非常充分，”她说. “We had strong clinical, procedural, and interviewing skills for working with patients.”

此外，她还被灌输了继续学习的观念.

“OUWB works on that sense of humility that you’re constantly growing…and that this is a lifelong learning process,她说。.

“现在是导师了, 我经常告诉我的学生，这不是短跑, 但是马拉松,她补充道.

By the end of her third year of residency, Goike was named chief resident.

The Goikes also had established roots in the area — and had their first child on the way. (他们后来又有了第二个孩子.)希望留在密歇根州东南部.

她说:“我们对这个地区有一种特殊的归属感。. “我们在这里，准备留下来，壮大我们的家庭，成为这里的一部分.”

Goike was hired as an emergency medicine physician at what was then Beaumont Hospital, 特洛伊, 她在哪里继续工作. 随后, she has taken on additional duties with OUWB that include overseeing fourth-year clinical electives, 特洛伊的办事员, and serving as a mentor for members of the Class of 2024 through the school’s PRISM program. 

And she thoroughly enjoys giving back to the community that has given her so much.

“Working at 特洛伊 and having opportunities to make connections back to OUWB…it’s been the perfect fit,她说。.