doctor let student shadow and student later learned that was against rules...

[Gauss44]

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If you were this student, would you put those hours on your application?

 

[raiderette]

Yes I would put them down, with the Dr. as the contact.

 

[DokterMom]

Yes if you need the hours - not your fault. Unless you had some reason to know shadowing would be problematic.

 

[Catalystik]

If you were this student, would you put those hours on your application?

Yes.

 

[CoffeeintheMorning]

Just curious, what rule did they break?

 

[LizzyM]

Just curious, what rule did they break?

It might be that the facility has a rule that physicians cannot have visitors in the facility and that only authorized personnel can be present in patient care areas. I could see a hospital having a rule like that for liability reasons.

That said, it is unlikely that the adcom knows that a facility has such a rule or that the physician who was being shadowed was breaking that rule.

 

[Catalystik]

it is unlikely that the adcom knows that a facility has such a rule or that the physician who was being shadowed was breaking that rule.

And even so, it does not reflect negatively on the clueless applicant.

 

[JJRousseau]

This is why I was not a fan of shadowing in general. I loved seeing how medicine worked, but I generally felt so out of place, intrusive, and useless when I did. Loved the learning experience, but despised the discomfort of feeling like it wasn't my place to be there with zero clinical training under my belt.


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