@Catalystik When putting job shadow experiences what do you suggest the title of the experience to be?
I've seen multiple posts that say to specify the Doctor's name and their profession that you are shadowing, but what if there are multiple doctors with multiple occasions that I have shadowed? Do I group them all as one? If I group them as one, what should the experience title by?
Title could be
Multiple Physician Observation Through XXX Program.
Most group all shadowing together unless there was a single profoundly-impactful relationship built with one doc, and then they'd use two.
Reposted as an example to show different ways of showing timeframe:
One potential format for listing physician shadowing on an AMCAS application (whichever doc you list first, you'd put the pertinent data in the header and omit it from the narrative box. Total Hours box would be all the hours added together):
**4/15-5/15: 15 hours, Jake Famleedok, MD, Family Practice.
[email protected] This was mostly clinic time, but I got to observe a vaginal delivery, too. I cut the cord!
**3/14-5/2014: 20 hours, Ling Ula, MD, Pulmonology, Podunk, AL, Health Clinic, 555-555-5556 ext 45
** 12/2013-6/14 (once monthly): 40 hours, Al Abowtgolf, DO, Sports Medicine, Podunk, AL, Health Clinic, 555-555-5555, ext 34
**Spring 2012: 15 hours, John Kutoocure, DO, Surgeon, Meridian, MS.
[email protected] Observed a complete bowel resection and a pancreatic cancer resection. Some clinic hours included.
**Also planning 8 hour job shadow 7/9/16 with an OBGYN. (Not included in overall total hours)
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-If the Contact is not the physician, you'll need to add that person's name, too. If a program coordinator arranged all the shadowing and can vouch for you, then physician phone or email can be omitted.
-If two or more took place at one location, you might list them at the top and have the header Organization apply to both.
-If you have many, many docs, you can list the main ones at the top and later summarize others in a way that fits in the remaining space, like "Also shadowed a rheumatologist, neonatologist, and neurosurgeon for 20 more hours combined" without giving contacts and locations.