**This is specifically for department of surgery at MSKCC*** It will be your downfall if you have zero healthcare experience. No room for mistakes/errors/growth. Someone I trained was fired 3 days shy of completing her 6 months probation. Whatever you do if you apply for this position - stay FAR AWAY from the dept of surgery, go to medicine. A job that can be done 100% remote but insist and require staff to sit in cubicle 3 days onsite (not patient + rarely see your MDs and clinical team). Zero flexibility with that, would rather have you call out than let you work remotely to keep the office staffed and not having other OCs covering 2-3 MD offices. TOXIC work culture, passive aggressive upper management. Management will immediately throw staff under bus. If a doctor unprofessionally yells at you and it was escalated to management… management laughs it off and doesn’t do anything about it. Lots of hyper fixation on mistakes, mass influx of anxiety, etc. Blackout dates for taking time off, your PTO will be rejected if your coverage partners can’t cover. For your mental health DO NOT WORK AS AN OC.
