Hi I hope this is the right forum to post under as I think my situation makes me fall into the non traditional Med student category if it is not feel free to let me know.
Im Pre Med but the Med school I will most likely be attending is where my young child is receiving his med care and it is extremely frequent like monthly visits to multiple clinic departments, weekly therapy's, multiple procedures weekly communications with his drs especially his neurologist 'which is the specialty im going after' ect so its not like its just once a year . He is complex so he has to receive the regional care which just happens to be at our regions med school affiliated hospital.
My question is this Has anyone been in this situation or is coming up on it where you will be a shadowing pre med, Med student and potentially even resident and maybe even flying solo at the same hospital and possibly same department with the same Specialists who treat your child?
I know it will work because I have had conversations with the med program department on this and set up my time to come in and discuss when I will do my shadowing during rounds, and his providers are aware im Pre Med and will be shawdowing there . I do know there are alot of locals who stay under one roof from pre med till retirement at this particular University/hospital had their kids receive care there but I believe that was after med school for them.
How do you go from patients parent to shadowing and student of, and eventually resident under your childs Dr's and then back to patients parent and switching the roles frequently?
How does this blur the lines between patient/Dr relationship? What if one of his Drs chooses a course of action for my son that upsets me as his parent, that I don't agree with? how do you push those differences aside to learn from that person and treat patients with them, vice versa? What if I screw up 'and as a Med student I will we all will make mistakes' and one of them comes down hard on me which will also happen, how do you push that aside to go back to the parent/dr relationship? I know that what I see during shawdowing and med school for one kid may not be what right for my kid so I cant go after the Drs with "well why did you for so and so and not my child?" I get that but there are other factors that play into this that make it weird I guess
There are about 3 departments my Child is not seen by in this hospital and is the only childrens hospital in a 300 mile radius its one of the worlds highest ranking but its the only and this is where about 50 % of the first 2 year every Friday externships are done and where a good chunk of M3 and M4 are at as well. Even if we did have another childrens hospital I wouldn't want to take the best care from my child. . So the fact is this these Providers that treat my kiddo some will be my professors, some will even be my attending and I need advice on how to view this and make work.
Im Pre Med but the Med school I will most likely be attending is where my young child is receiving his med care and it is extremely frequent like monthly visits to multiple clinic departments, weekly therapy's, multiple procedures weekly communications with his drs especially his neurologist 'which is the specialty im going after' ect so its not like its just once a year . He is complex so he has to receive the regional care which just happens to be at our regions med school affiliated hospital.
My question is this Has anyone been in this situation or is coming up on it where you will be a shadowing pre med, Med student and potentially even resident and maybe even flying solo at the same hospital and possibly same department with the same Specialists who treat your child?
I know it will work because I have had conversations with the med program department on this and set up my time to come in and discuss when I will do my shadowing during rounds, and his providers are aware im Pre Med and will be shawdowing there . I do know there are alot of locals who stay under one roof from pre med till retirement at this particular University/hospital had their kids receive care there but I believe that was after med school for them.
How do you go from patients parent to shadowing and student of, and eventually resident under your childs Dr's and then back to patients parent and switching the roles frequently?
How does this blur the lines between patient/Dr relationship? What if one of his Drs chooses a course of action for my son that upsets me as his parent, that I don't agree with? how do you push those differences aside to learn from that person and treat patients with them, vice versa? What if I screw up 'and as a Med student I will we all will make mistakes' and one of them comes down hard on me which will also happen, how do you push that aside to go back to the parent/dr relationship? I know that what I see during shawdowing and med school for one kid may not be what right for my kid so I cant go after the Drs with "well why did you for so and so and not my child?" I get that but there are other factors that play into this that make it weird I guess
There are about 3 departments my Child is not seen by in this hospital and is the only childrens hospital in a 300 mile radius its one of the worlds highest ranking but its the only and this is where about 50 % of the first 2 year every Friday externships are done and where a good chunk of M3 and M4 are at as well. Even if we did have another childrens hospital I wouldn't want to take the best care from my child. . So the fact is this these Providers that treat my kiddo some will be my professors, some will even be my attending and I need advice on how to view this and make work.
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