Shadowing Question

[ArniePalmer693]

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So I work as a researcher in a clinical lab studying lung disease. We frequently get study subjects in who undergo a bronchoscopy (performed by my boss who is an MD) to get samples from their airways. I am in the room working for all of these bronchoscopies to recieve and prep samples. What I am wondering is whether I could count these bronchoscopies as shadowing hours?

thanks!

 

[mimelim]

The purpose of shadowing is not to collect hours, it is to learn what clinicians do day to day. Being with patients or in a clinical setting doesn't equate with shadowing.

 

[Irish Football]

Yeah, I'm just pre-med here, but from what I understand about shadowing, it is to see what physicians do on "day-to-day basis," like mimelim said. Seeing a single physician perform such a specific task in one room repeatedly does not seem to fit this description.

 

[Catalystik]

So I work as a researcher in a clinical lab studying lung disease. We frequently get study subjects in who undergo a bronchoscopy (performed by my boss who is an MD) to get samples from their airways. I am in the room working for all of these bronchoscopies to recieve and prep samples. What I am wondering is whether I could count these bronchoscopies as shadowing hours?

thanks!

I don't see a problem with mentioning it, but I suspect that the patient-physician interaction is somewhat one-sided and you aren't learning what will help you. Ask the doc if you can attend office hours and hospital rounds with him/her when the patients are conscious and alert to get an experience with more value for your purposes.

 

[ridethecliche]

So I work as a researcher in a clinical lab studying lung disease. We frequently get study subjects in who undergo a bronchoscopy (performed by my boss who is an MD) to get samples from their airways. I am in the room working for all of these bronchoscopies to recieve and prep samples. What I am wondering is whether I could count these bronchoscopies as shadowing hours?

thanks!

Counts as clinical patient exposure, but not shadowing.

Ask to shadow sometime. It's fun!