It’s been challenging for me looking for shadowing opportunities both because I’ve been working crazy hours on several projects in my gap year lab trying to get publications and posters and also most physicians ignore my emails. Right now I have around 20 hours with two IM doctors, one of whom is a physician-scientist at the same institute of my current lab. I’ll be shadowing a colorectal surgeon next week, and hopefully get another 5-10 hours with her. I know shadowing is not as weighted for MD/PhD applications as MD-only, but curious how diverse do I need shadow? I have a particular research interest, but do I also need to shadow more diverse specialists to check the box?