Shadowing Sources Poll

[Mt Kilimanjaro]

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I'm curious how people find shadowing opportunities.

 

[sinombre]

I actually did no "shadowing" until after I was already accepted

 

[La Presse]

Our family knows several physicians and they allow me to shadow them. They also connect me with other docs if I am interested in a particular specialty.

 

[Solomon]

I've found it nearly impossible to get shadowing opportunities. Even though I'm a high schooler, It's still crazy IMO.

 

[Omppu27]

Self initiated and a friend of mine worked at a peds urgent care.

 

[Mt Kilimanjaro]

I've found it nearly impossible to get shadowing opportunities. Even though I'm a high schooler, It's still crazy IMO.

Just don't stab your physics teacher and you'll be alright.

 

[Planes2Doc]

Friends of friends/family have been the best for me. There was no need to cold call physicians or write elaborate letters. It worked out pretty well.

 

[DAPI]

I shadowed physicians that had treated me in the past for one thing or another.

 

[Urnathok]

Try to get to know the physician in some way first, if you can. Volunteering at a hospital or clinic for a while before asking one of the doctors about shadowing handles two Papal claimants in one Council of Constance.

Three if you keep up volunteering and get a LoR out of it.

 

[IncognitoGuy]

Shadowed some at the free clinic I volunteer at. I also met one by virtue of them having treated one of my parents for something, and it just kind of spread out from there.

 

[487806]

I've found it nearly impossible to get shadowing opportunities. Even though I'm a high schooler, It's still crazy IMO.

Worry about shadowing after you get into college, unless you plan on apply to "amazing" accelerated programs.

Self-initiation is the standard approach.

 

[Planes2Doc]

Worry about shadowing after you get into college, unless you plan on apply to "amazing" accelerated programs.

Self-initiation is the standard approach.

Wouldn't shadowing help you get into one of those programs? I believe that LizzyM said that high schoolers that are lucky enough to be admitted to such programs undertake the typical ECs in high school.

 

[487806]

Wouldn't shadowing help you get into one of those programs? I believe that LizzyM said that high schoolers that are lucky enough to be admitted to such programs undertake the typical ECs in high school.

That's the point. Unless they're aiming for BS/MD programs, shadowing is pointless in high school. I always find it ironic that people are willing to do college level activities in high school just to finish medical school faster... well, that's a different matter for another day.

 

[circulus vitios]

I e-mailed a residency program director at a local teaching hospital. He agreed to let me shadow him over e-mail and then he ignored my subsequent e-mails when I asked for paperwork/when I could start. I was annoyed so I found his office number and called him. His secretary put me in contact with the hospital's department of medical education. They put me in contact with a residency program director in a different specialty and he set me up with the paperwork and let me shadow. It was an incredible pain in the ass with all of the runarounds, vaccinations, paperwork, and background checks, but the department of medical education and program director #2 were really nice and helpful.

 

[HSUReddie]

Most of my shadowing was during a summer research program at a children's hospital. We were pretty much allowed to take our pick of any department at the hospital. Also did some self-initiated shadowing in family medicine, and currently doing some more pediatrics shadowing relating to completing my public health practicum.