Is this considered shadowing?

[wormboge]

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At one of the hospitals where I volunteer, physicians sometimes allow me to follow them into patient rooms so that I can observe rare conditions and procedures (like ECHO following cardiac arrest and skin problems and other stuff). In this capacity, I also sometimes observe the doctors and nurses interacting with patients.

For the sake of full disclosure and clarity, this is usually on a case by case basis, and I only follow them in to rooms here and there, rather than following them all day long to every patient and every meeting with patients. Not sure if the later is required to call it, "shadowing."

 

[HomeSkool]

You can count that as shadowing, but only the time actually spent with the physicians (i.e., if you do a five-hour volunteering shift and shadow the physician for 30 minutes, you shouldn't count the whole five hours as shadowing time). It's also best to arrange for some contiguous shadowing time to see more of physicians' work than just the procedures. And just to be clear: you shouldn't count time spent following nurses as shadowing.