My first day as an intern

I interned with OrthoPediatrics the summers of 2019/2020 while also working over the winter of 2019 as a part time employee.

As a an intern at OrthoPediatrics I worked specifically with the planning and execution of a number of projects dealing with medical equipment and its distribution. Specifically, I worked daily communicating and working with the warehouse team including returns, shipping, medical education, and medical device loaners departments. In these departments I was able to work on projects including a cost benefit analysis mapping out an example returns process, a tactical rearrangement based on future projections for over 1,000+ parts for efficiency of the warehouse floor plan, cycle counting over 24,000 parts with the team, and updating all departments to 5S standards.

Skills: Communicating with peers and working effectively with them, Detail Orientated tasks, Professional business tasks (email, excel, word, etc), Planning/projecting/and executing future projects

Located below is a summary of my first summer and many of the projects I had a hand in directing and completing.

Christian O Summer Intern Summary

Around March 12th my life changed along with thousands of others.

Covid-19 had hit and I returned home to finish the semester online like countless other students across the country.

Although quarantining was difficult I was lucky that I had a internship waiting for me at the end of May when mandatory isolation was lifted. Orthopediatrics was able to coordinate with a sister company Telos in order to give me an internship to work remotely from home half of the week while working 11 hour shifts the other half of the week in person with them. I was able to work part-time with Telos from May-August of 2020 learning many technical and communicative skills along the way.

In this position I created a research library out of research articles using the software program EndNote cataloging over 2,000 research articles based on a number of factors. In order to allow Telos to easily be able to find and use specific sections of an article to find support for a medical devices use, the articles had to be hand catalogued into this system.
Although this experience was only part-time the skills and proficiency I gained in being able to decipher extremely heavy medical terminology in research along with learning about thousands of different sports based medical procedures and devices was invaluable to my future as a physical therapist.

Skills: Medical Terminology, EndNote research proficiency, adaptability, professionalism