summer off...shadowing a detroit doc...canadian

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i'm a first year med student in canada and since we've got the summer off, i was wanting to get some experience perhaps shadowing a doctor in detroit. i have 2 reasons:

1) exposure to inner-city populations
2) exposure to the american health care system

my goal isn't to practice in the US, i plan on staying in canada, but with regards to #2, since us canucks always debate about private/public health care, i figure it would be beneficial to actually experience both to sort out what my opinion is on the issue. for example, the culture here is one of a staunch anti-private system.

this is foreign territory to me -- how would i go about doing the above 2? who would i contact? i'm not interested in getting credit or doing research. it's more like a volunteer thing.

thanks!

 

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i'm a first year med student in canada and since we've got the summer off, i was wanting to get some experience perhaps shadowing a doctor in detroit. i have 2 reasons:

1) exposure to inner-city populations
2) exposure to the american health care system

my goal isn't to practice in the US, i plan on staying in canada, but with regards to #2, since us canucks always debate about private/public health care, i figure it would be beneficial to actually experience both to sort out what my opinion is on the issue. for example, the culture here is one of a staunch anti-private system.

this is foreign territory to me -- how would i go about doing the above 2? who would i contact? i'm not interested in getting credit or doing research. it's more like a volunteer thing.

thanks!

try contacting wayne state medical school and asking. just find a person on the internet site (http://www.med.wayne.edu) and email them. End the email by saying, "if you are not the person to contact, could you please direct me to the correct person?". good luck.

you may also want to try asking this question in the Wayne State thread.