If physician shadowing requires connections

GoldenRock
Fri, 17 May 2019 03:44:23 +0000

I think it helps to shadow or volunteer related to medical. Not for application process but more to get a feel for the nature of job and validate is it something you would like to take up as a career. Being at a young age, just because you like a subject like Biology or Psychology, some students tend to think so medicine is the right choice.

It appears it differs with each location. Some place it is hard to get and some place it is easy. For my D, in OK it was well organized and they allowed. Of course you have to go thru some application process and sign compliance forms etc. She did shadow 100 hours which is more than her clinical volunteer hours. Shadow also helped to get a feel for different specialist. She did 6 varied areas like ER, ICU, Ped, ENT Endo… etc and she really liked the variation to get a feel.

It is not that all patient info is shared. Of course some patients may not be comfortable but some are willing.
My neighbor who is a stay at home mom but does English tuition to local kids. Last year she underwent hip surgery and she allowed one of her HS student to shadow the surgery. She knew it is hard for all these kids to get this especially in CA and she wanted to help her.