Overview

Every medical student is required to complete 10 hours (5 hours/term) per year of medical practitioner shadowing for MEDC 111 and MEDC 211 Success in Medical School courses in Year 1 and Year 2.  You may shadow physicians or nearly any professional discipline in the health care field. If you are unsure if a particular discipline should qualify as a medical shadowing experience, please check with your Year Coordinator in the UGME office.

Scheduling and Logging Shadowing Hours

For students shadowing in Regina, please follow the link for the department related to your shadowing request.  If you do not hear from the admin in 7 days with an update on your request, send an email to the Clerkship Administrator for the department directly, which can be found here.

For students shadowing in Saskatoon or elsewhere in SK, you may directly contact preceptors or Departmental contacts. More information on shadowing, including our shadowing policy and contacts, are available on our shadowing webpage.

For liability purposes, you must log your shadowing in One45. If you need a refresher on how to log your shadowing, see the instruction video here.

Policy for Practitioners Being Shadowed/Observed

Thank you for facilitating this opportunity for a first or second year student to observe you and your team to help learn about the health care system and his/her future role in it.

Curricular and extra-curricular pre-clerkship medical experiences are arranged by agreement between medical students and volunteer supervisors of the student’s choosing to help students integrate their learning to date and assist them in career decision-making.

Any involvement of students in clinical situations must take into account their current level of training.  First year medical students will have certification in Basic First Aid and CPR for (HCP) Health Care Providers.  They are learning clinical and pre-clinical sciences, patient interviewing, and basic physical examination skills.  They MAY have had exposure to pathology, pharmacology or some systemic study of disease.  They MAY have learned discipline-specific clinical sciences or technical skills. If necessary, ASK the student about their level of training.  

Pre-clerkship students should NOT be recording histories or physical findings for official medical records.

It is required that any patient-related activity by these students be supervised DIRECTLY AND IN PERSON by a supervisor who has signed the Medical Shadowing Activity Log. 

It is expected that the patient(s) be asked for permission to involve the students in their care, and will be free to decline.