East coast Colleges with pre-med shadowing programs?

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@CottonTales

not one that will do the work for them

This is news to me that college will do the work for the students. Some colleges do have such support, and it seems to be one of the packages we are paying for. Students still need to do the actual work, studying, volunteering, shadowing, etc.

@acurtis1120

There is a lot of enthusiasm for gap years on college confidential. If your student is interested in medicine now, stays interested and does well then they are likely to be well prepared without any additional time

Thanks for this.

Thanks to all for the input and information shared. I have made it very clear that this thread is about clinical experience (shadowing, patient contact, internships etc). I’m not sure why this needs to be repeated or confirmed.

My student is a junior and decided to go for the med track after 9^th grade vs finance/business and he is taking many of his own initiatives for this. There are about 30% of medical students without gap years, which means this can be done. Not sure why this may be viewed as a way of shortcut. My way of thinking is if a college can help with clinical experience (not easy on our end), that will be beneficial.

Thanks to many posters, we found Rhodes college, Alabama, Colgate, VT, Wofford, Willams, Davidson (a poster dropped off a bunch to tops LACs, and I did not bother to check them out. Another poster mentioned Wofford, and I went back to check the list and found Williams and Davidson).

https://www.williams.edu/career-center/health-professions/spec-19-healthcare-internship-old/

https://www.davidson.edu/academic-departments/premedicine-and-allied-health-professions/internships-research-co-curricular-experiences

So, the answer is yes, many colleges do have such support we are interested in.

Any contributions for such list would be appreciated as they are useful for other parents/students. We will also ask our pediatrician/some specialists about shadowing, but we are not sure of the response.

Any other discussion about high school and undergraduate student life, or medical path or other volunteer work/job are useful but may be worth a different thread.