We asked HuffPosters to share advice they would give to their intern selves with the hope that their mistakes and wisdom will help you current and future interns make the best of, and get the most from, your own internship experiences.
Intern self-reported data on continuous work hours were obtained from the residency program.
If I could go back to my intern-self, I'd remind myself that everything you do -- from answering phones, to suggesting ideas, to even getting coffee -- all pays off in the long run.
Others have also observed discrepancies between interns' self-assessments and their supervisors' assessments of them [ 10].
Several studies have pointed to a gap between medical education or preparation for practice and the actual requirements of medical practice as an intern: many have concentrated on interns' self-assessment of their competencies [ 4– 7]; some have included the views of supervisors, clinical teams and patients [ 8– 11].
The title of "software engineering intern" largely self selects for this, but it's quite possible that some of these numbers are inflated by outliers.
Other variables were sex and age, plus the main grouping variable dividing the sample in two: employed hospital doctors (consultants and interns) and self-employed doctors (general practitioners and private practice specialists).
Public servants are more unionised than other workforces, and so irksome to managers who eye a commercial world of 19th century employment practices – lump labour on zero hours, temp agencies, free interns, the bogus self-employed free of national insurance.
Twenty of the 26 (77%) interns had 80 self-reported episodes of continuous work hours greater than 30 hours.
Self-confidence and stoicism in the face of high stressors, and fierce competition are experienced as important for interns and physicians' self-presentation.
Buser had entered Rikers as a self-described "idealistic intern," and in the face of wanton brutality, she departed a hardened veteran of American mass incarceration's greatest woes.
