If physician shadowing requires connections

twogirls
Wed, 15 May 2019 09:20:37 +0000

Getting shadowing hours is hard. I have two good friends who are doctors …they told me that they are not permitted to allow students to shadow. My daughter will be sending out a bunch of emails today, and I will be giving her resume to another doctor I know from work…maybe something will happen. In the meantime she will contact her pediatrician again …she can go back there…and a close family member just told me that her doctor will help my daughter out if necessary ( although he doesn’t normally allow shadowing and he specifically said if she can’t find anything else). Right now she has about 10 hours.

This is the only thing missing from her resume. She has almost 2 years of hospital volunteering…translations, nurse triage, helping patients navigate their way, etc. I thought it would be easier to get shadowing hours once you set yourself up as a volunteer…but that’s not always true. Some hospitals specifically say that they do not allow volunteers to shadow. I am wondering if you set yourself up in a small clinic somewhere as a volunteer…it might be “easier” to shadow?

Do medical schools understand how difficult it is to obtain shadowing hours? Is it ok to have fewer hours if the student has a significant amount of hospital volunteering? She isn’t applying for awhile so hopefully it will work out.