This past year, with hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt, I finally started my first real job as an intern at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center. Like most jobs, I was welcomed with a mandatory training session before my official start date. Initially, my 2-week orientation seemed like a standard job training, one that I heard friends outside of the medical field talk about and mock because of boring lectures that overuse words like synergy. However, after speaking with friends attending intern orientations from different specialties across the country, we were shocked when we realized one major difference—some of us weren’t being paid to attend.
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