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I have done shadowing before and I have shadowed MANY different physicians in various medical fields, however, recently I found a new person to shadow within a field I have never shadowed in before.
After I landed the shadowing opportunity and before showing up to shadow, I researched the physician and found out SOOO many awesome things that literally made me nervous to show up and VERY nervous to even talk when I got there.
A few things I found out:
1. This physician was inducted as physician of the YEAR over all states in America
2. This physician has received MANY INTERNATIONAL awards for outstanding medical work
3. This physician serves on the Dean's Board of one of the schools i am CURRENTLY APPLYING TO!!
4. This physician is an officer of a Nationwide Medical Board
5. While sitting in this physician's office a news channel in Ireland called to schedule an interview
6. A handful of nationally known news channels have come down to interview this physician and staff and do a "day in the life of"
7. the physician partner just came from Africa and was a major person there re: healthcare and he let me spend almost half the day with him too..
8. this physician is a preceptor for several medical schools
OMG.. BEST SHADOWING EXPERIENCE EVER!!!!! They allowed me hands on experience and encouraged me to ask questions. The entire staff was awesome and the patients were even more awesome by letting me experience their visit with them.
I spent the ENTIRED day with this physician and her partner starting at 5am and I left at 6pm (both clinic and hospital) but they were STILL going! They had to go BACK to the hospital because they had new admits and asked if I wanted to come.. but silly me.. i wore heels (even though they were small they wore my feet owwt.. They told me next time do not wear heels lol ))
So excited to go back tomorrow!!
Just wanted to share with all my SDNers and hope your future shadow experiences (in med school and pre-med school) will be as good as this one was.
After I landed the shadowing opportunity and before showing up to shadow, I researched the physician and found out SOOO many awesome things that literally made me nervous to show up and VERY nervous to even talk when I got there.
A few things I found out:
1. This physician was inducted as physician of the YEAR over all states in America
2. This physician has received MANY INTERNATIONAL awards for outstanding medical work
3. This physician serves on the Dean's Board of one of the schools i am CURRENTLY APPLYING TO!!
4. This physician is an officer of a Nationwide Medical Board
5. While sitting in this physician's office a news channel in Ireland called to schedule an interview
6. A handful of nationally known news channels have come down to interview this physician and staff and do a "day in the life of"
7. the physician partner just came from Africa and was a major person there re: healthcare and he let me spend almost half the day with him too..
8. this physician is a preceptor for several medical schools
OMG.. BEST SHADOWING EXPERIENCE EVER!!!!! They allowed me hands on experience and encouraged me to ask questions. The entire staff was awesome and the patients were even more awesome by letting me experience their visit with them.
I spent the ENTIRED day with this physician and her partner starting at 5am and I left at 6pm (both clinic and hospital) but they were STILL going! They had to go BACK to the hospital because they had new admits and asked if I wanted to come.. but silly me.. i wore heels (even though they were small they wore my feet owwt.. They told me next time do not wear heels lol ))
So excited to go back tomorrow!!
Just wanted to share with all my SDNers and hope your future shadow experiences (in med school and pre-med school) will be as good as this one was.