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Started by systematicX
It's a bit weird that you have a ton of clinical hours but less than 100 hours with a doctor. I'm sure you can eke some hours from your clinical hours. Not a red flag though. Every hour is a good hour.
The working with a doctor is shadowing, completely. Plus EMT work beats simple shadowing any day-- that's hands on experience. You're fine.
EMT work does not give an applicant any idea of what a doctor's day is like. That is what shadowing is a proxy for.
IMHO, 50 hours of shadowing is fine. Over and above shadowing, one needs clinical experiences with patients and EMT is a fine experience in that regard. Employment by a physician, while not in the shadowing bucket on the application, also provides a valuable experience that the adcom will take into consideration.
Not all "working with doctors" is "shadowing". The goal of shadowing is to see the whole day of a doctors life- how much time they spend with patients, what other parts of their job look like.
If you're working with doctors and only seeing them with patients, that's great clinical experience, but I'd be careful about calling it "shadowing".
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