(Focus: Exposure to real-world medicine and professional observation)
- Primary care physicians (family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics)
- Specialty physicians (surgery, cardiology, OB-GYN, dermatology, psychiatry, etc.)
- Osteopathic physicians (for DO perspective)
- Rural health clinics and federally qualified health centers
- Hospital outpatient departments and inpatient wards
- Emergency medicine or urgent care centers
- Physical therapy, occupational therapy, or chiropractic practices
- Community health centers or free medical clinics
- Public health departments or county medical offices
- Military, veterans’, or government health facilities
- Telehealth or virtual medicine shadowing (HIPAA-approved programs)