Thank you for the help!
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An email would suffice? I thought admissions counselors would prefer a person phone number. I'll just suck it up and ask her for both. Thanks!
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Well if they can't reach her via phone I'm sure an email would work. I honestly don't think they'll check - but on AMCAS it requires you to put a phone and email, I think. If you have room in your description or something just say she retired and they'll probably be understanding of it.
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You should just use the number for the clinic. In the very unlikely event a school decides to contact them, that'll get them started.
Alright. Thanks for the help guys! =)
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I've always wondered, if a medical school calls a clinic/doc's office to ask about shadowing that you did your freshman year, how would the doctor remember you?
Assuming you form a good relationship with the doctor and shadow for a good amount of hours, they'll probably remember. Unless they have hundreds of pre med students coming in and out constantly to shadow.
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I shadowed 4 docs, all above 30 hours. One doc didn't remember that I've known him for about 4 months while I was volunteering at a hospital that he used to shadow at. And another older doc didn't remember some of the stuff his patients told him literally 5 minutes ago. I'm under the presumption that docs will generally just accept that you shadowed them unless you didn't actually shadow them and they haven't had student shadow them for months.
