Written by nursing student Tatenda Malan
At Soteekki practice there is possibility to take advantage of any opportunity to further prospective careers, noting that making available opportunities strengthen both student personal and professional development.
Julien Bobet is a second year physiotherapy student and has just completed a successful entrepreneurship internship with Soteekki. During his five-week period, Bobet worked diligently to promote various social and health projects, including a hands on experience at podcasting.
We spoke to Bobet and asked him if he had any prior experience of doing podcasts and what inspired him to do podcasts.
Doing podcast at Soteekki was Bobet’s first and only experience doing podcast: “I like to have a conversation with people and get the time develop a subject.”
“The good thing of it is its uncertainty, you can plan questions and time, but you want to have a conversation with your guest and you never know where it leads. Of course, you can always come back to tracks but never be afraid to dig in an information your guest gave you,” he adds.
For him to be able to do the podcasts, Bobet explains that he had to develop a concept by identifying the goals. Once the goals were in place, it was time to personalise the podcasts by selecting themes he always had in mind that which he thought he shared with listeners.
First podcast was about physiotherapy as a preventing tool. They interviewed physiotherapy teacher Maija Kangasperko and discussed on how to implement physiotherapy as a preventative therapy to patient before it’s too late, and to see what support there is from government, organization. Second podcast is made about having practical training in RoboAI Lab. Podcasters were interested in the implementation of new technology in health care and asked student Lorenzo Roccheggiani´s personal thoughts about his practice. Third was about triathlon and interview was done with teacher Kati Karinharju. They talked about her journey in the sport, community, training, different distances, and the fact that having fun can go together with performance.
Bobet advices for effective podcast interviews, podcasters must prepare carefully, focusing on questions that induce the interviewee to talk freely. “Gathering with your pair, suggesting ideas, agreeing on a topic and a guest and writing some questions. What you are passionate about or just like the topic you kind of know what you talk about, you share the experience and or you learn.”
He adds, “have on mind that you only have 20 minutes, and that goes fast so if you have a guest, it’s nice to let him or her talk as much as possible.”
Asked what he learned from doing podcasts and possibilities to enhance his own professional knowledge, Bobet says “learning from personal experience is great you can relate to it. People have great stories to tell when they are passionate about the topic. If you have fun or are inspired during it there are great chances for the listeners to feel the same.”
“Be interested in the story your guest tells more than in your questions. Podcasts are meant for discussion not for interviews.” He says that asking unwritten, and the information the guests helped him grow professionally, “I think that will help me when interviewing patients before treatment.”