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Hi!
This is my first time posting, so I'm going to apologize first off if I'm not following some sort of etiquette.
So I'm currently a Junior, and I haven't officially shadowed any doctors while in college. The summer before last though I participated in a 500 hour internship at a center that provides health care to the homeless. Most of this internship revolved around helping the medical director with a quality improvement research project where I shadowed patients throughout the day. As a part of this patient shadowing, I sat in on their nurse and doctor appointments, so probably logged around 100 hours of shadowing ~10 primary care doctors this way.
I shadowed doctors in high school as well (cardiologist, anesthesiologist, and pediatrician and probably did around 75-100 hours) but I know that that doesn't count to put on my application. I already feel like I got what I can out of shadowing and I feel like my time could be better spent doing something else. Looking around at previous threads about shadowing though have made me believe that regardless I need to do some more recent shadowing.
In light of all of this, do I really need to do more shadowing? How much?
Thank you!
-Molly
This is my first time posting, so I'm going to apologize first off if I'm not following some sort of etiquette.
So I'm currently a Junior, and I haven't officially shadowed any doctors while in college. The summer before last though I participated in a 500 hour internship at a center that provides health care to the homeless. Most of this internship revolved around helping the medical director with a quality improvement research project where I shadowed patients throughout the day. As a part of this patient shadowing, I sat in on their nurse and doctor appointments, so probably logged around 100 hours of shadowing ~10 primary care doctors this way.
I shadowed doctors in high school as well (cardiologist, anesthesiologist, and pediatrician and probably did around 75-100 hours) but I know that that doesn't count to put on my application. I already feel like I got what I can out of shadowing and I feel like my time could be better spent doing something else. Looking around at previous threads about shadowing though have made me believe that regardless I need to do some more recent shadowing.
In light of all of this, do I really need to do more shadowing? How much?
Thank you!
-Molly