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Pre-Health? Shadow Abroad
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What Med Schools Want
360 Shadowing Has It All
Atlantis gives you the best quality and quantity of shadowing, so you can cut back elsewhere and focus on what interviewers really care about. Med/PA schools will care about what’s unique: your clinical experience, your rare ability to focus on grades/MCAT – and most of all – your stories from shadowing abroad.
Programs run for 1–10 weeks during academic breaks in multiple European cities. Open to all pre-health students (18+) attending college or recently graduated. Beat the rush and apply today!
Medical schools want 3 things: (1) healthcare exposure, (2) GPA/MCAT, and (3) AAMC competencies. When you shadow with Atlantis, you improve all 3. As a bonus, you get to do this while studying abroad during school breaks.
1. Best Healthcare Exposure
Compared to typical pre-health clinical experiences, Atlantis shadowing provides far greater depth, breadth, and quantity: more meaningful observation, more specialties, and more hours. It also offers an intercultural perspective. And these are the four qualities medical schools value in any healthcare experience.
2. Freedom to Focus on Grades
Most pre-health students wish they had more time to study. Atlantis shadowing accomplishes so much extracurricular-wise during your summer that you can cut activities (and focus on your grades) during your semesters.
3. Show Med/PA Schools You Have What They Want
Med/PA schools systematically look for certain traits such as resilience, adaptability, cultural competence, social skills, etc. Atlantis shadowing uniquely helps you refine and showcase many of these, creating powerful stories for your future applications and interviews.
Our Alumni Enter Great Medical Schools
Featured Programs
We offer single and multi-country programs, taking place for a few weeks over breaks, in several countries.
Destination
Italy
Duration
2-3 Weeks
Rome
Rome is the capital and the largest city in Italy. It is one of the most ancient cities in the world – beautiful, and full of history and culture. Known as the Eternal City, Rome is one of the birthplaces of Western civilization and has accrued about 2,500 years of history since its founding in 753 BC. The historical center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and offers many locations to see, including Vatican City, an independent country, and the only country to be geographically situated within a city.
Is Atlantis for You? Take the Quiz to Find Out
We’ve built our highly acclaimed “Shadowing and Extracurricular Readiness Score” calculator to allow you to look at advice statements from pre-med experts and see to what extent you follow them.
Watch a Video to Quickly Get a Visual Sense of the Experience
Keep in Mind
- Atlantis is a way to both study abroad and obtain great clinical experience
- Financial aid makes it possible
- Flexible dates work with your summer or winter break plans
- Foreign language skills are not required
- Some programs do a Service-Research Project
Alternatively, See a More In-Depth Version of The Above Table
Compare A Typical Med School Applicant With an Atlantis Alum
4.96
/5Go Overseas
9.7
/10Go Abroad
An Effective Investment
- Alumni went on to 40 of the top 50 medical schools, and also to DO/PA & more
- 93% of Atlantis alumni progress on the AAMC competencies on which medical schools assess applicants
- 1/10 of U.S. pre-health advisors has been to our programs
