Shadowed while volunteering?

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in one of my volunteering positions, I go in with the doctor and residents as they talk to the patients and then after the attending and resident leave, I sit down with the patient and do my volunteering duty. I was planning on using this for shadowing hours, but i realized that i don't have specific doctor contact info

does this count as shadowing? if so, should i just try to find the names of the physicians i remember?
 
in one of my volunteering positions, I go in with the doctor and residents as they talk to the patients and then after the attending and resident leave, I sit down with the patient and do my volunteering duty. I was planning on using this for shadowing hours, but i realized that i don't have specific doctor contact info

does this count as shadowing? if so, should i just try to find the names of the physicians i remember?
You could potentially. I have a shadowing experience where I shadowed something like 5 different doctors or residents over a 16 hour period. My contact is the person I scheduled it with, don’t know any of the doctors names.
 
in one of my volunteering positions, I go in with the doctor and residents as they talk to the patients and then after the attending and resident leave, I sit down with the patient and do my volunteering duty. I was planning on using this for shadowing hours, but i realized that i don't have specific doctor contact info

does this count as shadowing? if so, should i just try to find the names of the physicians i remember?

I did this exact same type of experience, and I just listed one of the doctor’s I shadowed as the contact (he also wrote me a letter of rec). Personally, I talked about both the volunteering and the shadowing in the same experience essay, although I did designate as a most meaningful to further expand my explanation ( I did it for 4 years). But there are other ways you could divide this up.
 
I did this exact same type of experience, and I just listed one of the doctor’s I shadowed as the contact (he also wrote me a letter of rec). Personally, I talked about both the volunteering and the shadowing in the same experience essay, although I did designate as a most meaningful to further expand my explanation ( I did it for 4 years). But there are other ways you could divide this up.
wdym the 'experience essay'?
 
One of the 15 short paragraphs (750 characters) for your 15 experiences. You can then designate three of them as most meaningful experiences to get an extra 1325 characters to describe it.
 
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