Day 1

Today was an intimidating, but inspiring and exciting beginning to my internship. We got a loaded schedule and binder at the start of the day, filled with information of simple anatomy that we had to know for a lot of our internship. Part of the day was spent learning some of the simple anatomy required for spine and orthopedic surgeons. After lunch, I met my mentor and we discussed possible ideas for a project topic that would work for what I will be learning throughout the experience. The idea that interested me the most was researching neuromonitoring and basing my project around that topic. Neuromonitoring is used to monitor neural reactions that happen when a nerve is damaged or hit during surgery. It makes spinal surgery safer. Teh rest of the day was spent researching my topic and turning in paperwork needed by Mercy. Today made me even more excited than I was already.