A faculty-wide email recently announced that shadowing in our emergency department would no longer be recognized as a valid educational activity. I wrote back asking why. The reply was brief, dismissive, and telling: “It doesn’t pay the rent.” That line has stuck with me—not just because it was flippant, but because it revealed something deeper
The cost of ending shadowing in medical education originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
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