Can we please have the office intern/ student placement conversation?
Our oganization prides itself on being a teaching facility. But the arrangement, as I understand it, is meant to be mutually beneficial. My question is: Do interns and students really help or do they just create more work?
My department has had all sorts of characters come and go. And I say "characters" intentionally. We've had the slackers, the keeners (is this sounding a little too Breakfast Club?), the "I'm-too-good-for-this-work"-ers, the airheads, even multiple individuals who are legit royalty back in their homelands. What do they have in common? They make my life difficult and kinda make me fear for the future of healthcare!
It might just be me or my line of work. I don't think Mrs. Hemsworth has these problems...
But tell me: is it a lot to ask a 20-something to stick a label somewhere on a 9"x12" surface without missing? Or to know what red and green traffic lights mean?
Oh how I've come to love the summer break...
Oh I've had them, B. Only recently though so I'm sure I've only scratched the surface of this nightmare. But I so love the one week of prep to get them set up so they can spend all of two days to two months learning everything I do and attempting to do it. Then the inevitable correction and clean up which renders any "help" they were supposed to provide null and void!
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