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what to do - low shadowing hours
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How can you have projected hours if you are not actively shadowing? The risk of doing that outweighs the benefit. Imagine if they call your reference and find out you only had 10 hours and are no longer shadowing. It would be hard to put down projected hours with another shadowing opportunity if you don’t even know who you’re going to shadow.
do you have any family friends or your primary care physician you can contact? best way to find a physician willing yo let you shadow and get more hours especially right now is through connections.
do you have any family friends or your primary care physician you can contact? best way to find a physician willing yo let you shadow and get more hours especially right now is through connections.
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I was actively shadowing a physician, we stopped because of covid. finding a physician to shadow is no longer an issue because he is fine with me coming back, but doing so now seems irresponsible, and i think he agrees.
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Once you have a return date set, I think providing projected is fine. Just honor them.
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of course. i really like the doc so its actually been a good time cause i dont have personal connections to docs so its first real exposure
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graduating. it was just the typical hospital volunteering. if the idea is that it might make up for shadowing, i promise it did not LOL
Lol yes that was the idea. What are you doing during your gap year? If it's clinical, maybe you can update the schools that allow updates in September / October. I would suggest even volunteering now if you can (temperature screening or something clinical so you at least have something). It's also fine listing the projected hours as long as you do them and also it would be nice to have the projected hours completed before you begin interviews , which would be August at the earliest but likely beginning in September or even later. I would just advise caution as shadowing (or some form of shadowing where you observe what it is like to be a doctor) is very important and can break your application even if everything else is perfect. It's nice to get at least 50 hours in but ~100 is preferable. 50 or less is fine if you have another "most meaningful" clinical experience and good hours in that experience but even then, I would get at least 25.
