Getting Ready for your Mentor (assignment 4)

The article by FSU's Career Center covers what I would call common sense. But there are those who do not have that, it gives does and don'ts mainly focusing on that you should always be on time, attentive, take in as much as possible and when you don't understand something ask questions. They also cover that you should dress professionally and notice the culture of the workplace and try to assimilate. A good rule for dress code is to dress one step above the boss, since they set what is OK and what isn't, and it is always better to be overdressed than under dressed. I used that in my intern as I noticed everyone in the lab wears the lab coat and scrubs, I did the same it is the proper protocol. I also noticed that the lab managers keep their coats buttoned even though some of the employees don't, so I kept my lab coat buttoned. The article also talks about not sitting idle seek opportunities, the past week I was in pathology and when there was not a specimen the pathologist was working on, I watched the pathologist assistant as she prepared specimens to have immunostains ran the next day and asked her questions about each specimen she was working on. I learned more about the uterus in those three days I worked last week, than I ever expected or in honesty wanted to learn. the article said don't gossip which is logical but it sound don't talk about personal stuff, which I disagree with, it makes conversation and allows you to build healthy working relationships. So last week when I was in pathology and talking to the doctor and the assistants and they asked where I wanted to go to college, what I wanted to do and why, I told them, one of the lab techs even told me about a medical college in Georgia I didn't know about. But overall I would agree with most of the points the article makes and have put some of them to use in my own internship, even before reading it because as I said before they seemed common sense to me.