Anonymous
10/29/2024 11:07
Subject: Shadowing a Dr.
Anonymous wrote:We had a high school student shadow a surgeon for a few hours one day. He wasn't even seeing patients that day, he was just showing him around the hospital, explaining different parts of the job, and all that. They were in the ICU (where I was) and a patient coded. Due to the nature of why the patient was there and the type of surgeon he was, the doctor left the student at the nurses station and ran into the code because we were going to be opening up the chest. When we were done the poor kid was pale (he didn't see anything but he could hear the commotion) and basically said he didn't think this was for him. I felt bad because there are obviously many types of medicine where that is NOT the norm. Thankfully the surgeon was a family friend so could talk the kid through it.
Ugh sorry saving lives was inconvenient for your DC
Anonymous
10/29/2024 11:03
Subject: Shadowing a Dr.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How do you find a doctor to shadow?
Best path is to ask people you know. Can send blind emails if you really don't know any doctors but that's a tough road.
This is why URM and lower income kids have such a hard time. They do not have these connections.
My niece is a doctor and says she gets cold emails all the time from college students to shadow her, and that’s fine. Seems totally unnecessary for HS.
It’s very necessary for HS kids because they need to decide on their college major and if they want to be a doctor then they shouldn’t wait until college to decide to major in chemistry or biology and start taking the prereqs.
You don’t need to major in chemistry or biology. I was a philosophy major. You just need to take the pre-reqs.
Yeah you don't need to major in chem or bio... if you for some reason want to make your life unnecessarily harder, go ahead and major in a humanities subject
You will be a more attractive applicant if you do. I promise that majoring in humanities while taking pre-med courses is more attractive than shadowing.
And if you aren’t prepared to do something difficult that you find interesting and exciting, this really isn’t the path for you.
No, you won’t. This is stupid and is terrible advice for anyone planning their undergrad with a view to med school.
Agreed. Bad advice. The majority of medical schools have hard shadowing hour requirements and you won't even be considered if you don't meet the minimum number of hours.
Anonymous
10/29/2024 08:26
Subject: Shadowing a Dr.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How do you find a doctor to shadow?
Best path is to ask people you know. Can send blind emails if you really don't know any doctors but that's a tough road.
This is why URM and lower income kids have such a hard time. They do not have these connections.
My niece is a doctor and says she gets cold emails all the time from college students to shadow her, and that’s fine. Seems totally unnecessary for HS.
It’s very necessary for HS kids because they need to decide on their college major and if they want to be a doctor then they shouldn’t wait until college to decide to major in chemistry or biology and start taking the prereqs.
You don’t need to major in chemistry or biology. I was a philosophy major. You just need to take the pre-reqs.
Yeah you don't need to major in chem or bio... if you for some reason want to make your life unnecessarily harder, go ahead and major in a humanities subject
You will be a more attractive applicant if you do. I promise that majoring in humanities while taking pre-med courses is more attractive than shadowing.
And if you aren’t prepared to do something difficult that you find interesting and exciting, this really isn’t the path for you.
No, you won’t. This is stupid and is terrible advice for anyone planning their undergrad with a view to med school.
Anonymous
10/29/2024 07:47
Subject: Shadowing a Dr.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How do you find a doctor to shadow?
Best path is to ask people you know. Can send blind emails if you really don't know any doctors but that's a tough road.
This is why URM and lower income kids have such a hard time. They do not have these connections.
My niece is a doctor and says she gets cold emails all the time from college students to shadow her, and that’s fine. Seems totally unnecessary for HS.
It’s very necessary for HS kids because they need to decide on their college major and if they want to be a doctor then they shouldn’t wait until college to decide to major in chemistry or biology and start taking the prereqs.
You don’t need to major in chemistry or biology. I was a philosophy major. You just need to take the pre-reqs.
Yeah you don't need to major in chem or bio... if you for some reason want to make your life unnecessarily harder, go ahead and major in a humanities subject
You will be a more attractive applicant if you do. I promise that majoring in humanities while taking pre-med courses is more attractive than shadowing.
And if you aren’t prepared to do something difficult that you find interesting and exciting, this really isn’t the path for you.
Agree shadowing can help figuring out if the career is the right one. Major does not matter at all. Our T10 parents weekend had a talk on interest in premed and what the school advises and all the resources on campus: research is the most important difference-maker in getting in to T25 med schools. All med schools want clinical experience and volunteering, all want an above-average MCAT and all use science /stem gpa as the main gpa that gets you in. Major is put in context—engineering and difficult majors are allowed a lower gpa. This school gets over 90% accepted to US med schools and about half of them get accepted to T25 med schools. The avg MCAT at the school is much higher than the national average—they almost all good test takers.
Anonymous
10/29/2024 07:37
Subject: Shadowing a Dr.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How do you find a doctor to shadow?
Best path is to ask people you know. Can send blind emails if you really don't know any doctors but that's a tough road.
This is why URM and lower income kids have such a hard time. They do not have these connections.
My niece is a doctor and says she gets cold emails all the time from college students to shadow her, and that’s fine. Seems totally unnecessary for HS.
Physician here. Many students cold email or ask when they are at a visit. No need to have connections to be a shadow.
Anonymous
10/29/2024 07:34
Subject: Shadowing a Dr.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How do you find a doctor to shadow?
Best path is to ask people you know. Can send blind emails if you really don't know any doctors but that's a tough road.
This is why URM and lower income kids have such a hard time. They do not have these connections.
My niece is a doctor and says she gets cold emails all the time from college students to shadow her, and that’s fine. Seems totally unnecessary for HS.
It’s very necessary for HS kids because they need to decide on their college major and if they want to be a doctor then they shouldn’t wait until college to decide to major in chemistry or biology and start taking the prereqs.
You don’t need to major in chemistry or biology. I was a philosophy major. You just need to take the pre-reqs.
Yeah you don't need to major in chem or bio... if you for some reason want to make your life unnecessarily harder, go ahead and major in a humanities subject
You will be a more attractive applicant if you do. I promise that majoring in humanities while taking pre-med courses is more attractive than shadowing.
And if you aren’t prepared to do something difficult that you find interesting and exciting, this really isn’t the path for you.
If you are saying a med sch applicant who majored in humanities will have a better shot than a med school applicant who majored in bio and has no shadowing- you are incorrect.
Anonymous
10/29/2024 07:17
Subject: Shadowing a Dr.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How do you find a doctor to shadow?
Best path is to ask people you know. Can send blind emails if you really don't know any doctors but that's a tough road.
This is why URM and lower income kids have such a hard time. They do not have these connections.
My niece is a doctor and says she gets cold emails all the time from college students to shadow her, and that’s fine. Seems totally unnecessary for HS.
It’s very necessary for HS kids because they need to decide on their college major and if they want to be a doctor then they shouldn’t wait until college to decide to major in chemistry or biology and start taking the prereqs.
You don’t need to major in chemistry or biology. I was a philosophy major. You just need to take the pre-reqs.
Yeah you don't need to major in chem or bio... if you for some reason want to make your life unnecessarily harder, go ahead and major in a humanities subject
You will be a more attractive applicant if you do. I promise that majoring in humanities while taking pre-med courses is more attractive than shadowing.
And if you aren’t prepared to do something difficult that you find interesting and exciting, this really isn’t the path for you.
Anonymous
10/28/2024 18:06
Subject: Shadowing a Dr.
God, no. In this situation, HS students are just a pain, even the well-intentioned ones. Save us from the entitled ones and the ones made to do it by their parents.
Anonymous
10/28/2024 17:54
Subject: Shadowing a Dr.
Anonymous wrote:It’s not actually necessary and high school students in these situations are absolutely useless at best and overall a nuisance.
Wrong. If he wants BS/MD, which is harder than any ivy to get into - even at VCU, this is a necessity…but be could get clinical work in other ways.
Anonymous
10/28/2024 17:02
Subject: Shadowing a Dr.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How do you find a doctor to shadow?
Best path is to ask people you know. Can send blind emails if you really don't know any doctors but that's a tough road.
This is why URM and lower income kids have such a hard time. They do not have these connections.
My niece is a doctor and says she gets cold emails all the time from college students to shadow her, and that’s fine. Seems totally unnecessary for HS.
It’s very necessary for HS kids because they need to decide on their college major and if they want to be a doctor then they shouldn’t wait until college to decide to major in chemistry or biology and start taking the prereqs.
You don’t need to major in chemistry or biology. I was a philosophy major. You just need to take the pre-reqs.
Yeah you don't need to major in chem or bio... if you for some reason want to make your life unnecessarily harder, go ahead and major in a humanities subject
Anonymous
10/28/2024 16:01
Subject: Shadowing a Dr.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How do you find a doctor to shadow?
Best path is to ask people you know. Can send blind emails if you really don't know any doctors but that's a tough road.
This is why URM and lower income kids have such a hard time. They do not have these connections.
My niece is a doctor and says she gets cold emails all the time from college students to shadow her, and that’s fine. Seems totally unnecessary for HS.
It’s very necessary for HS kids because they need to decide on their college major and if they want to be a doctor then they shouldn’t wait until college to decide to major in chemistry or biology and start taking the prereqs.
You don’t need to major in chemistry or biology. I was a philosophy major. You just need to take the pre-reqs.
Anonymous
10/26/2024 02:54
Subject: Shadowing a Dr.
It’s not actually necessary and high school students in these situations are absolutely useless at best and overall a nuisance.
Anonymous
10/25/2024 23:49
Subject: Shadowing a Dr.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How do you find a doctor to shadow?
Best path is to ask people you know. Can send blind emails if you really don't know any doctors but that's a tough road.
This is why URM and lower income kids have such a hard time. They do not have these connections.
My niece is a doctor and says she gets cold emails all the time from college students to shadow her, and that’s fine. Seems totally unnecessary for HS.
It’s very necessary for HS kids because they need to decide on their college major and if they want to be a doctor then they shouldn’t wait until college to decide to major in chemistry or biology and start taking the prereqs.
Anonymous
10/25/2024 23:44
Subject: Shadowing a Dr.
Please no. It’s bad enough having residents and interns and not being allowed to say no.
Anonymous
10/25/2024 23:18
Subject: Shadowing a Dr.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How do you find a doctor to shadow?
Best path is to ask people you know. Can send blind emails if you really don't know any doctors but that's a tough road.
This is why URM and lower income kids have such a hard time. They do not have these connections.
My niece is a doctor and says she gets cold emails all the time from college students to shadow her, and that’s fine. Seems totally unnecessary for HS.