<p>I'm a senior in hs and still deciding between engineering or medicine...</p>
<p>Can hs school students shadow doctors or anything of that sort? also, i don't know how i would react to a lot of blood so....</p>
<p>EMT license and riding the ambulence is a good indication.</p>
<p>Texas</a> EMT Certification and Licensing, NREMT Exam Summary</p>
<p>I second getting certified as an EMT, but depending on your state you may have to wait until you're 18 (if you're not already). Although to be honest, being an EMT isn't like what they show you on TV unless you work in like an inner-city area. So you may not see any blood for months and months. It still gives you great patient contact and you get to learn some basic medical terminology. As far as knowing if the lifestyle of a doctor is right for you, I'd try shadowing a physician. It's a little more difficult for HS students to find a Dr. as opposed to college students, but it's possible.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that while being an EMT can be very rewarding, it is nothing like the real medicine that docs work in.</p>
<p>I'm a HS senior and I've been shadowing a physician since August through an internship program in my school district. It's not easy to get into, you have to interview and only a handful of kids throughout the entire district get medicine internships but I did. </p>
<p>Before this, I figured "eh, medicine sounds fun. Why not." now that I've spent hours upon hours of time with the doctor in both clinics and the OR, talking with the office workers and patients, and seeing her deal with difficult patients and be in difficult situations, I have a new respect for medicine and am now certain that it is what I want to do. I have no real idea exactly what field (although it really doesn't matter at this stage), I've found orthopaedics to be extremely interesting as that is where I am interning.</p>
<p>Bottom line, if you can do it, by all means do it. I'm lucky that I had a program that got me a spot, as I'm pretty sure I could have called half the surgeons in my area and they all would have said no to a HS student. It's a great experience and it's kinda sad that I only have another couple weeks. I wish I could do it every day of the year even not getting paid a dime.</p>