Imagine you’re a psychologist at a training center. 3-4 days of the week, you’re seeing patients, writing notes or reports, answering emails from billing, and portal messages from patients. Maybe 1day of the week, your doing research, writing grants, filling in IRB nonsense. and/or managing your research assistant. In between all that, you get hit with “administrative tasks” which add up to half a day of work.
Administrative tasks can mean:
1) some stupid meeting about billing, new billing requirements, overall financials and budget of your department, how Susan at the front desk is upset because Mary the psychometrician didn’t invite her to her office hours birthday party, or some random interest du jeur of someone in the department.
2) answering emails from someone about something from the C suite
3) a reminder to get your flu shot, and give evidence to the pharmacist. (I don’t know why it’s the pharmacist).
4) reviewing applications for interns.
You’re asking for certainty in that context. There’s probably no certainty. Maybe one place is run by the person who gets everything done immediately. Maybe another place is run by someone who just had Covid and is desperately behind on everything. Maybe another place is run by someone who really didnt want the job and just got assigned it, so he’ll do it on the last day possible.
I think seeing that type of thing is an important transition for students. Schools have deadlines and structure. Most of clinical practice doesn’t.
