Brigham and Women's Hospital

Have a general knowledge public health issues regarding preventable conditions like heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, etc. Familiarize yourself with basic lab equipment like centrifuges and pipettes. Emphasize your attention to detail and organizational skills.This is a great position to get...

It is a benched base research position. Typically in the morning we receive blood and urine samples from study participants. We organize, register, and process them. A large portion of the day isn't spent physically preparing samples with pipette and analyzing them for quality and discrepancies.

This lab is in a different facility than the main hospital and is located right on campus (next to Blaze). While you don't experience the larger culture of the hospital on a day to day basis, you get to work in a small team and the management is very kind. There are also lots of events that give ...

Professionalism and willingness to learn. Even if you don't know something, just act professional, calm, and ask for help. In my clinical and research experience, people avoid working with those who are easily frazzled, sensitive, or overwhelmed.

No day is ever the same-- which is what I loved most about the position. You are constantly working on different stories about the events/news going on in the hospital. For example, some portions of the day you might be working independently to write your draft for an article, or you may be meeti...