If physician shadowing requires connections

srk2017
Tue, 14 May 2019 23:49:28 +0000

Yes connections help in medicine but not always. My spouse is a physician and her hospital system said no volunteering before 18 (he was 16 when he applied for BSMD) and that handicapped him he was able to get 2 BSMD admissions. He didn’t like those choices and decided to fight it out thru traditional path. Now he is seeking his own volunteering opportunities and networking on his own at his UG school’s medical school.

Residencies used to be mainly based on LORs for US grads before not USMLE Step 1 scores are important , but connections help in low tier/community hospitals.