Find Medical Shadowing and Experiences for a Brighter Future

The Treatment to a Growing Problem

Prior to applying and entering Medical School, any applicant needs to accumulate substantial amounts of medical exposure and experience to become better prepared and adapted for the profession. However, physician shadowing, a common way to get medical experience, is becoming increasingly harder to obtain, especially in a society still recovering from a global pandemic. This barrier is magnified for first-generation students, a percentage of premedical students that is increasing with each passing day, who lack the personal connections and/or skills to obtain such essential medical experience.

Connecting Shadows makes such essential medical experiences more accessible by providing a platform to, not only connect students with physicians, but also mainstream and facilitate the process. We are providing students with experiences they may not have ever gotten, increasing the intelligence and experience of the next generation of doctors.

Medical Opportunities Offered

How it Works?

Student makes an account consisting of personal information and common forms (i.e. HIPAA compliance, observership agreement, etc.)

Student searches our database and signs up for a shadowing or medical exposure shift. Additional forms may need to be completed depending on the shift.

Once the medical facility receives and processes the student account and request, the student will receive the physician’s contact information prior to first shift for introduction and questions.

Go to the shift and SHADOW THE PHYSICIAN.

Covering
Costs

Connecting Shadows works with the administration of colleges and universities in the area to provide this service to their students. If you are not part of a partnering college or university and would still like to participate, then you would have to pay our one-time service fee.

Created for College Students,
from college students

Ricardo Ramos began college determined to studying medicine with no connections in healthcare or medicine. Fueled by his past struggles to find shadowing, he started Connecting Shadows with Georgia Tech computer science student, Vincent Zhu, to create a digital platform connecting students who have no connections to healthcare professionals.