How transformation happens in four years at Augustana | augustana.edu
How transformation happens in four years at Augustana | augustana.edu
How transformation happens in four years at Augustana
Some college students have a rule about professor tardiness: allow a professor with a master’s degree 10 minutes to arrive late. If the prof has a Ph.D., give them 15 minutes.
Max Petersen ’10, an endocrinology fellow with M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale, would say Augustana professors have too much respect for their students to keep them waiting like that.
“I never got the sense that the faculty at Augustana treated me as anything other than a future colleague, someone worthy of respect and mentorship,” he said.
Now Petersen is a fellow in the Oliver Langenberg Physician-Scientist Training Program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. His goal is to “bridge the gap between clinical research and the practice of medicine, by doing research into human metabolism and metabolic disease while also seeing patients with those conditions.”
It’s the second physician-scientist training program for Petersen. The first was during his internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General in Boston in 2018-20. Such programs are ideal for science-oriented physicians like him, drawn to the connection between why and how.
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