Gifts for Health Information Internships

Picking a gift for a health information internship

A health information internship is usually a student's first real look at how medical records, coding and data systems fit together, often in a hospital's health information management department or a clinic's billing office. Interns spend long hours at a desk learning terminology and privacy rules, so the gifts that land tend to be comfortable and a little bit personal. A tee for the drive to the placement, a hoodie for the chilly office or a lecture hall, or a mug that marks them as the intern who brings the good coffee. Put the word internship on it, or add their school or graduation year, so it reads as their own milestone rather than a generic work shirt. Many internships are tied to a degree or certificate program, and the spring and summer terms are when most placements start and finish, so a gift timed to the first day or the last day tends to be remembered.