Internship Program
Alpine Surgical offers a unique internship program to recent college graduates planning a career in healthcare. It exposes future providers to all aspects of a busy, private surgical practice so that they can:
- Develop critical thinking skills and confidence by working alongside surgeons treating patients with complex diseases and health conditions
- Gain experience by shadowing providers and observing live surgical cases in the operating room
- Learn and understand the business side of the practice, including front-, mid- and back-office functions
Interns will learn about the challenges and complexities of patient scheduling, gain an understanding of how insurance works (including Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance), learn the vital skills of both live and phone triage and refine communications skills with both patients and staff.
In their back-office role, they learn the essentials of rooming patients, obtaining vital signs and performing history and physical exams. They will acquire the basics of medical scribing and office-based procedure set-ups. They will master working with electronic health record (EHR) systems as well as the nuances of obtaining insurance authorizations. They will also learn about medical coding and billing including ICD-10 terminology, modifiers and CPT assignments.
When their internship is completed, they will be far ahead of their colleagues when starting their professional degree programs and clinical rotations!
For more information about our Internship Program or to apply call (303) 449-3642.
