Things I have learned as a Data Scientist/Analyst - intern in Healthcare in the past 8 weeks.
A Short Back story I am an MSc mathematics graduate who took lots of applied statistics classes. I have a BSc Actuarial Science undergraduate degree too. The two courses sort of set me up on this path and that is how I found myself as an intern in the Enterprise Data & Analytics department of a hospital immediately after graduation. Now onto the list: The healthcare lingo will throw you off! For someone who has never liked being sick and thankfully has a very limited number of interactions with hospital personnel, there were some words that caught me off-guard from the first day at orientation. I mean "my doctor" worked pretty fine but I have to refer to them as "PCP - primary care provider". All the other physicians I called "the doctor". (My doctor : the doctor). The first project requirements were given to me in this lingo too and I did not want to ask a question after each sentence because that would have turned out to be a lengthy conversation. ...