shadowing question

[papermate]

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I have a small question about shadowing. I've never shadowed a physician in a hospital before. The only type of "shadowing" I've done was work in a refugee camp and tend to whatever patients the physician was seeing at that time. Will this experience suffice? I plan on submitting my application this summer and won't have time to do very much between now and then.

 

[Biscuit799]

That should be fine. It sounds like you got good hands on experience under a physician, so, IMHO, I would definitely use that as clinical experience.

 

[Biscuit799]

Also, you still have a full semester between now and then. That's plenty of time to get some kind of experience. Spend a week or two shadowing a physician (only do it now, before MCAT studying gets really intense). Hopefully your course load is relatively light, so you might even be able to spend a day or two per week volunteering somewhere. But don't go crazy, grades/MCAT's still come first.