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Hi,
Does anyone know if HIPAA laws prevent students from shadowing physicians? The reason why I ask is because today I went to "shadow" a physician and was told to wait in the lounge everytime he went to a patients room. Two summers ago when I shadowed a different physician, I was allowed to go into the room with her when she saw her patients. Have the laws changed so much since then? It seems to me that HIPAA laws would effectively end shadowing as whole. This confuses me because I thought medical schools stress shadowing as an important E.C. activity. Has anyone recently shadowed a physician and been treated differently?
Does anyone know if HIPAA laws prevent students from shadowing physicians? The reason why I ask is because today I went to "shadow" a physician and was told to wait in the lounge everytime he went to a patients room. Two summers ago when I shadowed a different physician, I was allowed to go into the room with her when she saw her patients. Have the laws changed so much since then? It seems to me that HIPAA laws would effectively end shadowing as whole. This confuses me because I thought medical schools stress shadowing as an important E.C. activity. Has anyone recently shadowed a physician and been treated differently?