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  • Internship Details
    • About the Internship
    • Internship Departments
    • Intern Opportunities
    • Guidelines
  • Intern Testimonies
  • How to Apply

Clinic Department

Intern Responsibilities

  1. Schedule new patients and answer phones 
  2. Get authorization for all referrals and tests, surgeries, informing patients of these authorizations 
  3. Keep track of insurance plans and enroll the Practice into insurance plans 
  4. Prepare for clinics by getting all other clinic notes, radiographic studies 
  5. Run the clinics: take vital signs, room patients 
  6. Schedule follow-up visits 
  7. Scribe the visits, proofread the notes and fax them out 
  8. Track charges and make sure payments are collected 

Surgery Department

Intern Responsibilities

  1. Secure surgery authorizations, schedule and help surgical patients with all their needs 
  2. Schedule room and scribe the visit for all surgical patients 
  3. Be on call on evenings and weekends to help with scheduling surgical cases 
  4. Call post-op patients after surgery and discharge to home 
  5. Establish and build patient rapport skills through checking in on patients and communicating with the office to assure their needs are met 
  6. Obtain thorough understanding of various surgeries from reasons for operation, procedure, and necessary equipment 
  7. Establish the confidence of being part of a medical team through regular interactions with providers and Staff, accessing electronic medical records, scheduling patients and ordering imaging 
  8. Gain efficient coordinating skills by regularly interacting with various hospitals, medical Staff, imaging centers, and surgical representatives 

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