Does shadowing for college credit count?

[sid510]

When I was in my junior year of undergrad, I was on the pre-veterinary track of medicine, and I shadowed a local veterinarian for 3 semesters for 1 credit hour per semester (about 100 hours total of shadowing), and some of the times I would actually get involved in procedures, such as surgeries. Since this is still a field of medicine, would it look attractive to put this in as shadowing experience? Wouldn't it just show in a positive way that this is what I have experienced thus far to get to my final choice of the PA profession?

[PaulK]

You should definitely claim this. The shadowing category is supposed to be for shadowing "health professionals," so technically, this would count. But I think the intention of this category is for shadowing health care professionals in human medicine. They might ask you to claim this as "Other Work Experience."

I suggest you call CASPA customer support to get the official word on this:


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[Memoradel]

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