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Would volunteering at a hospice be enough of a "clinical experience"? I know it's not "volunteering at the hospital," but I feel like I can do more than stocking shelves at a hospice. I know volunteering at the hospice counts as a clinical experience (if you get to work with the patients, that is), but I wasn't sure if this experience alone will be perceived as "enough."
Also, kind of a side question - I read a bit about people regularly shadowing the same physician on a weekly basis. Is that pretty common? (ie. if you ask a doctor if you can shadow him/her, that generally implies a few week commitment rather than a one time deal?) My impression was that you wanna see what a physician's daily life is like by shadowing them... so what'd be the point of shadowing the same person for weeks and weeks? (as opposed to shadowing different specialty doctors each time, I guess) Is there an advantage to that besides the fact that there's less scheduling and searching-for-docs-willing-to-do-this involved?
On that note, I am currently working full time... is it possible to find physicians that I can shadow during the weekend? :-/
Also, kind of a side question - I read a bit about people regularly shadowing the same physician on a weekly basis. Is that pretty common? (ie. if you ask a doctor if you can shadow him/her, that generally implies a few week commitment rather than a one time deal?) My impression was that you wanna see what a physician's daily life is like by shadowing them... so what'd be the point of shadowing the same person for weeks and weeks? (as opposed to shadowing different specialty doctors each time, I guess) Is there an advantage to that besides the fact that there's less scheduling and searching-for-docs-willing-to-do-this involved?
On that note, I am currently working full time... is it possible to find physicians that I can shadow during the weekend? :-/
