cMore Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 I have been looking to shadow a PA for years now. I really need help to find one. Can someone please assist me. My email is cfmoreno2@gmail.com This is the only requirement that I'm missing to finish my application for the year 2020/21. I am willing to drive to the Broward area and Miami area. Thanks for the assistance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenovo Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 Many PAs (their employers/hospitals) will not allow you to shadow during this pandemic. There are virtual shadowing opportunities available, you might want to look into that. I would say 20 hours is a good amount of shadowing. Some schools don't even require it so you might want to apply to those ones. This was how I secured shadowing opportunities. Please note that this was before the pandemic and that this method will very likely not work at this time. I looked at the hospital systems in my area and tried to find as many names of the PAs as I could. Then, I figured out the email format of the hospital system or medical office (Their websites almost always list an email or two for a supervisor or director somewhere). Usually the format I found was something like firstname.lastname@schoolname.med.edu or something like that, and I would just email all the PAs I could find. The response rate, for me at least, was very low but I still managed to shadow a couple PAs using this method. A better method I've heard but didn't use myself was looking up PAs on linkedin and contacting them through there. Good luck, hope this helped! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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