If physician shadowing requires connections

katwkittens
Tue, 14 May 2019 21:12:35 +0000

^^^^Son would agree with texaspg. His connections were nada. No physicians, no neighbors who were physicians and nobody I knew!

The boy’s research was in micro/biochem/genetics using big plants to isolate cancer cells…something like that. What I heard was blah blah blah… Big plants.

He drove around out in the boondocks (where we lived) stopping at rural doctor’s offices seeing if they wanted some free help with the books, insurance or patients. He found a few and he was able to gain hours (clinical) that way.

He volunteered all 4 years of college at the local middle/high school tutoring the inner city kids (Trenton) and many went on to participate in science fairs, something they had not done previously. I’m guessing they all like BIG Plants.
Again, what I heard.

He played football high school and college although not as a recruit rather as a walk-on. He majored in what he really enjoyed and then did it again. His first undergrad only allows 1 major, reason why for his other degrees and they didn’t have the next ones at the first university. Go figure.

What all this has in common is it is all what he loves and enjoys immensely. He did well working hard on his GPA and on his MCAT and GMAT. He studied using books from the library. After being so busy every day studying provided him with some quiet and respite, he really appreciated the blocked time to study for the exams.

He didn’t have any built-in connections, just hard work and the willingness to look outside the box.