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 ...

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 ...

Karen Ritter, an assistant principal at a high school just outside of Chicago, wanted to see her school through a student’s eyes. So she decided to follow 9th grader Alan Garcia, who came to her ...