My family knows tons of doctors (all MDs) in various specialties. Do I need any kind of qualification or certification to shadow a physician? My understanding is no, if the physician and the patient both agree, then I can watch the doctor-patient interaction. Since I have the patient's permission, this is not a violation of HIPAA.
A family medicine doctor in private practice has said I can shadow him, just show up. Bam, done. I am looking forward to it.
An oncologist who works in a hospital (whom I really want to shadow) seems very incredulous about this whole arrangement. She thinks I must need to be certified or something, but she certainly doesn't know what that entails. "Doctor A let me do it" is not working as an argument. Quoting SDN probably won't work too well either, is there some official-looking website that talks about how shadowing works? I am not even sure whether this oncologist has asked her superiors at the hospital, which is a bit weird because she is very enthusiastic about helping me in every other way.
There are semi-relevant threads, but the most recent is 4 years old and doesn't directly address my questions.
A family medicine doctor in private practice has said I can shadow him, just show up. Bam, done. I am looking forward to it.
An oncologist who works in a hospital (whom I really want to shadow) seems very incredulous about this whole arrangement. She thinks I must need to be certified or something, but she certainly doesn't know what that entails. "Doctor A let me do it" is not working as an argument. Quoting SDN probably won't work too well either, is there some official-looking website that talks about how shadowing works? I am not even sure whether this oncologist has asked her superiors at the hospital, which is a bit weird because she is very enthusiastic about helping me in every other way.
There are semi-relevant threads, but the most recent is 4 years old and doesn't directly address my questions.