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Wittgen, Victoria

A5041632382 | I103531236

Mayo Clinic

Boston College

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Providing Virtual Health-Related Shadowing Experiences to Combat Growing Opportunity Gaps in PreHealth Education

The Advisor | March 8, 2022 | Volume: 42 | Issue: 1 | Pages: No page available

10.47578/0736.0436.42.1.4

Abstract An important factor in applying to medical school and health professions graduate school is garnering health-related experiences such as clinical shadowing. Prehealth college students must obtain health-related experiences in order to assess whether healthcare fits the narrative of their career journey. EagleShadow (ES) is a virtual shadowing program for Boston College prehealth students and alumni that reduces current barriers to premedical career exposure to health careers due in part to increased COVID-19 restrictions, allowing students to explore health careers by engaging with professionals in the field virtually.