By Katsiaryna Sheludziayeva
My internship is at SFGH Orthopaedic Trauma Institute. The staff provides expert care in all aspects of ortho trauma, including inpatient and outpatient orthopaedic surgical care, rehabilitation, and orthotics and prosthetics.
Now my responsibilities include filing, scanning, and checking that all documents filed are in the right place. I have to sort documents like requests or purchase orders and make sure they are in a certain place.
My internship starts at 9.00, but I usually arrive at 8.30 because I am always worried that I will be late. Also I have some extra time to prepare everything for work: bins, folders, stickers, label markers, etc. I try to organize everything so it is not messy. At first, I check what kind of documents I have to sort, and then I label folders for them, and after that, I just move documents to the right place. I have breaks for 15 minutes before and after lunch. If I have done all the work before my time ends, I just ask for more tasks from an administrator.
The most challenging task for me is document numbers, and what they mean. I know that it is very important to place them with accuracy. But I prepared a little cheat sheet that helps me a lot. Also I can say that communicating with others was difficult at first because people there are very busy and because I usually work in a separate room.
I like my internship because it helps me understand how some things work, like filing for example. Also, I can learn how people behave in a working environment.
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