shadowing a friend who is DPT

[FieldDay]

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Is this a conflict?

Admissions may question since the office is located out of state in a different city. They will wonder how I ended up in that city for my observation hours.

Maybe its better to find local hours

 

[davidtheusername]

I don't see why that would matter at all. That shouldn't be your only location, but knowing a PT doesn't make the shadowing less useful. I couldn't imagine a program having a problem with this.

 

[twsurfsnow]

I did all my observation in Colorado currently living and only applying in Florida. I just made sure to get my hoes verified by various PTs. To verify them the put in their PT license#.


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[jquitt]

I cant imagine this being a conflict unless the friend writes a letter of rec for you. I dont think this should be a problem at all really.

 

[Dragon416]

I did all my observation in Colorado currently living and only applying in Florida. I just made sure to get my hoes verified by various PTs. To verify them the put in their PT license#.


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"Hoes verified"? It's like that? Haha jk.

 

[FieldDay]

I always verify my hoes beforehand

But I'll verify my hours too ;-)

 

[davidtheusername]

Smart to get your hoes verified ahead of time. You won't have much time to verify them once school starts.

 

[topher031888]

Is this a conflict?

Admissions may question since the office is located out of state in a different city. They will wonder how I ended up in that city for my observation hours.

Maybe its better to find local hours

This shouldn't matter at all, even if you want them to write a letter of recommendation (as long as they are a PT it doesn't matter how you know them). If it was family I could see how there could be an issue. I would consider every PT that I shadowed a friend, heck one of them I had known for over 20 years. Now if you need a letter of rec and you ask a friend to write it and they aren't your professor, a PT, or employer, then you have a problem.

 

[DesertPT]

I don't think the schools your applying to would even have any way of knowing that that PT was a personal friend unless you told them. It's totally fine, lots of people shadow friends and acquaintances.

 

[FieldDay]

Thanks, it looks like the conclusion is: It doesn't matter

 

[twsurfsnow]

Hours ^ iPhone autocorrect


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[a0pitre]

Hope you learned and absorbed everything during your observations. Wouldn't want those hoes to go to waste.