Physician shadowing

[Tydel7]

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Once you have shadowed a physician, do the medical schools require a signature or a letter that you in fact shadowed from the physician? If not, I would think there would be many people lying about how many hours they have shadowed. My thought would be that you would put their contact information in the application somewhere. Maybe I'm wrong.

 

[FrazzleSnazzle]

Once you have shadowed a physician, do the medical schools require a signature or a letter that you in fact shadowed from the physician? If not, I would think there would be many people lying about how many hours they have shadowed. My thought would be that you would put their contact information in the application somewhere. Maybe I'm wrong.

This.

 

[tremulousNeedle]

I guess if people start their path towards medicine with dishonesty, they are likely to continue this pattern throughout their journey. Eventually, it will catch up with them.

On AMCAS, applicants are expected to include contact name for all of their activities (i.e. shadowing). While the odds of a school checking everyone's contacts for all of their activities is probably low, some schools do randomly verify the accuracy of information entered as activities (random audit). Another way to get caught is if you say you worked a 100 hours with Dr. A, who, at one point, also happened to practice with your application reviewing. Said application reviewer is very interested in you as a candidate and decides to call Dr. A, only to find out that you shadowed only 16 hours. This does not end well for the applicant. You'd be surprised by how many people in academic medicine actually know each other in a given multistate region.

 

[NickNaylor]

Once you have shadowed a physician, do the medical schools require a signature or a letter that you in fact shadowed from the physician? If not, I would think there would be many people lying about how many hours they have shadowed. My thought would be that you would put their contact information in the application somewhere. Maybe I'm wrong.

Welcome to medical school admissions, enjoy your stay.

 

[thebillsfan]

I shadowed about a dozen different docs, I'm not putting my contact info for any of them on there. If they want they can ask me and Ill give them contact information--but I know they wont.

 

[bonsaitree1]

Just put the name of the physician there, and their specialty, no need for phone numbers and addresses.

 

[Tydel7]

I do agree with you tremulousneedle. Thanks for to everyone for the help. I'll definitely include the physicians name and specialty and adding his phone number wouldn't hurt either.