"given an orientation" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use this phrase in situations where someone needs to be informed about a particular topic. Example sentence: The new employees were given an orientation about company policies.
I asked Pizza Hut about this later and was told employees are given an "orientation session" in their first few shifts, followed by fuller off-site courses.
On arrival in Sokcho, the chosen South Koreans were given an orientation course by South Korean officials, who briefed them on what to expect in the North.
Before the children visit for the first time at the hospital, they are given an orientation session in which they get to see and touch some of the equipment used in therapy, including wheelchairs, walkers, oxygen tanks and prosthetic limbs.
Then we and the 14 other new students that week -- from Spain, Italy, Africa, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Russia and Japan -- were given an orientation session (everything was done in French); we were told that our student ID cards entitled us to discounts on buses, in museums, and conveniently, in the large Buffeteria next door.
In January 2013, newly elected Democrats in the House of Representatives were being given an orientation session by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee about how they should spend their time serving in the House – what was once referred to as the "People's House".
This time corresponds closely to the 9 min persistence time reported here, and suggests to us that once cells are given an orientation in the wave, they propagate towards the center without further information from the cyclic AMP gradient.
Here he is on Ocean Terrace and 73rd Street giving an orientation to the Ocean Terrace Historic District.
On that Saturday at Brooklyn Boulders, a staff member gave an orientation tour to half a dozen first-timers, most of them millennials.
Just as striking is the novel's voice, a Greek chorus of up-patients who narrate as though giving an orientation.
The reaction can give an orientation of substituents opposite to that found in electrophilic addition, which in the above example would produce CH3CH Br CH3, and in suitable cases it can be just as stereospecific.
The primary purpose of this article is to give an orientation to the enormous and rapidly expanding field of global justice.
