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Actually, I am working until Friday but I had my final presentation this morning 
in front of the CEO, President and other senior management. Boy, was I in the hot seat? 3rd year experience with resident and attending "pimping" definitely helped. Got three hours of sleep last night and too tired to do any more work.....
Overall, it was good experience. I got great exposure to and experience with the payer/provider side of health care- contract negotiations with physicians and hospitals, pay for performance/quality assurance initiatives (my main project), consumer web-based tools, consumer directed health plans, general mgmt in a highly centralized health insurance company.
Comparison with medicine- payer/provider space is more like Internal medicine i.e. a slow process with many DDx, potential solutions, great need for consensus, analysis paralysis stuff. For someone, like me, with more of a surgeon mindset, it was at times frustrating.
Plus I worked about 80-100 hours/week, past 2 weeks worked about 120 hrs/wk, BUT made about 50% of a fourth year resident's annual salary in 10 weeks (undoubtably the best thing about the internship).
Now, I am going to update my resume and in true b-school sense, I will state a 1 min conversation with the division head about his incompetent secretary who ended up getting fired the following week as.... " a strategic intervention to streamline the operations and processes of the division. Saved the company over $40,000/yr in excess operations and administrative costs".
in front of the CEO, President and other senior management. Boy, was I in the hot seat? 3rd year experience with resident and attending "pimping" definitely helped. Got three hours of sleep last night and too tired to do any more work.....Overall, it was good experience. I got great exposure to and experience with the payer/provider side of health care- contract negotiations with physicians and hospitals, pay for performance/quality assurance initiatives (my main project), consumer web-based tools, consumer directed health plans, general mgmt in a highly centralized health insurance company.
Comparison with medicine- payer/provider space is more like Internal medicine i.e. a slow process with many DDx, potential solutions, great need for consensus, analysis paralysis stuff. For someone, like me, with more of a surgeon mindset, it was at times frustrating.
Plus I worked about 80-100 hours/week, past 2 weeks worked about 120 hrs/wk, BUT made about 50% of a fourth year resident's annual salary in 10 weeks (undoubtably the best thing about the internship).
Now, I am going to update my resume and in true b-school sense, I will state a 1 min conversation with the division head about his incompetent secretary who ended up getting fired the following week as.... " a strategic intervention to streamline the operations and processes of the division. Saved the company over $40,000/yr in excess operations and administrative costs".
