So, shadowing.
It's to show I know what the doctor life is like, yeah? Here's the deal. I've done 100+ hours across about 8 different hospital floors/ departments. Some were volunteering, some were paramedic clinical rotations. I know these don't count as shadowing, but they've shown me a lot about medical life, at least on the hospital side.
The question is how do I make sure adcoms see this so my shadowing hours don't look low? Yes, I've done actual shadowing in primary care, but only 20-odd hours or so. So where / how do I say hey, the morgue was fascinating but not for me, surgery = morgue (smells better, tho) because you never see the patients awake, ICU = boring (except the 5 minutes when it wasn't), ED is my jam, pediatric ED is *really* my jam, etc. Does it go in a description somewhere?
If the answer is get more shadowing it will come at the cost of volunteering because I work a ton of OT as a medic. Please don't say get less sleep bc that makes me dangerous at work.
It's to show I know what the doctor life is like, yeah? Here's the deal. I've done 100+ hours across about 8 different hospital floors/ departments. Some were volunteering, some were paramedic clinical rotations. I know these don't count as shadowing, but they've shown me a lot about medical life, at least on the hospital side.
The question is how do I make sure adcoms see this so my shadowing hours don't look low? Yes, I've done actual shadowing in primary care, but only 20-odd hours or so. So where / how do I say hey, the morgue was fascinating but not for me, surgery = morgue (smells better, tho) because you never see the patients awake, ICU = boring (except the 5 minutes when it wasn't), ED is my jam, pediatric ED is *really* my jam, etc. Does it go in a description somewhere?
If the answer is get more shadowing it will come at the cost of volunteering because I work a ton of OT as a medic. Please don't say get less sleep bc that makes me dangerous at work.
