Question about shadowing

Having extensive experience in one location looks better than a bunch of different places. If you feel you'd like to see something different, then it might be a good experience, but if you're learning a lot where you are, no reason to go elsewhere.

 

I agree to some extent. If the place where you are currently shadowing (DO's aside) is good then by all means stay there, but if you're staying just because of the types of doctors it might not be the best decision. I only did 50 hours at a hospital when i started volunteering/shadowing and then left because I wasn't learning a thing. I ended up at NY Presbyterian Children's Hospital at an amazing program with 8 other students and learned more in the first day then my 50 hours at the previous place. I stayed there for a year and had a number of great stories for my Med School interview that even wowed the physician interviewing me. I've also heard that some schools do like to see that you've tried a number of options and kinda narrowed your choices but that's not something I can say for a fact.