Physician shadowing is a nearly essential component of applying to medical school. The reason is relatively simple: Admissions committees want to know that applicants understand what practicing ...

Three years ago, I had one of the most transformative professional development experiences of my life. I shadowed two high-school students over several days, and the experience changed me forever. I ...

After 11 years of designing medical-surgical nursing units, I recently had the opportunity to spend a day observing one nurse through most of a shift. Don’t get me wrong, I had a solid grasp of the ...

Famed primatologist Jane Goodall, who died this week, had a special connection to Palm Beach County. Journalist Charles McKenzie recalls shadowing Goodall in the mid-1990s and being deeply impressed ...

Two of the best ways to gather real-world information about your chosen field are informational interviews and job shadows. Informational interviews are just what they sound like: interviewing a ...