A worthwhile learning experience - Intern Pacific Bridge Medical Employee Review

While working at PBM, interns will learn many new things about the medical consulting business. As a small company, interns are able to perform a variety of tasks from writing up invoices to researching potential clients. Everyone in the office is extremely friendly, and collaborating on tasks is very common. Colleagues are always willing to answer questions or help team members when they have bigger assignments to complete. Everyone in the office becomes pretty close, especially the interns, even in the 2.5 months I worked at PBM. The VP and marketing associate are some of the coolest people you will meet.

Sometimes tasks are not explained clearly, and are therefore hard to complete, or must be attempted multiple times because they were not done exactly right. Also, research projects sometimes feel long and tedious, extending well beyond when productive work has been completed. Although the president’s expectations sometimes seem too meticulous, and he may be critical of your work, it’s important not to take his comments to heart too much. He just wants the best for PBM and has a very specific way of running the company.

While I worked at Pacific Bridge Medical as a Senior Associate, I have learned a lot, from general office skills to more in-depth business skills and medical markets/regulations in Asia. You will learn many basic office skills for the first six months. Then, the boss will allow you to work on the actual consulting projects after you are more knowledgeable about medical product regulations in the US and Asia. As you work with medical clients and Asian consulting partners, you will learn a huge amount of information about medical markets in Asia, which is very difficult to learn unless you are actually involved in the real projects. This job is suitable for people who have Asian bilingual skills. You will have so many opportunities to use your Asian language skills in communicating with consulting partners in Asia who speak in limited English. The boss is willing to support necessary working visas for non US workers. This is a small office, and people know each other very well. Co-workers are supportive and friendly. The boss even organizes the fun lunch parties on employees’ birthdays! The boss will give you the great salary (plus bonus) as long as you work very hard.

This job may need you to take extra-hour work (early in the morning or late night) because of the international conference calls. So, your schedule has to be very flexible. You will definitely need to be very energetic and passionate about learning new skills for the position at Pacific Bridge Medical.