I am a current Junior and planning to apply this Summer. My question is if I need to shadow a docotor even though I have more than 4 years of clinical experience. During high school I volunteered at a hospital and after high school I was offered a position as a patient care tech. Since, then I have been working at a hospital part time throughout undergrad as a patient care tech, nurses unit clerk, cardiac monitor tech and ekg tech. I have had conversations with many hospitalists and usually assist them with their physician ordets and lab orders. If I am able to recieve a letter of recommendation from one of them will adcoms still think I do not have much experience because I've never shadowed a doctor?