Shadowing

Shadow Program – PAUSED

• All shadow visitors previously scheduled and any future shadow requests are being paused until post COVID-19 to ensure patient safety.
• We will announce the RESUMED date here on the shadow webpage.
• Thank you for your cooperation in helping us ensure we are providing a safe and healing environment for our patients.

UNC Medical Center Volunteer Services does not arrange placement for shadow visitors. Interested parties must contact hospital departments directly to set up shadow experiences. After a department agrees to work with a shadow visitor, the preceptor and visitor must follow the directions below.
For shadowing Rehabilitation Therapies (PT, OT, CL, RT, SLP, AuD and MT), please email clinicaledreq@unchealth.unc.edu

ALL PEDS shadow requests must come from Lynn West (lynn_west@med.unc.edu) in the Pediatrics Education Office. Peds requests not from her will NOT be processed.

Requirements and Forms

If you are interested in shadowing, you must complete all the following steps:

• All shadow visitors, please read the Shadow Visitor Policies
• Complete the HIPAA Training. You will receive a confirmation email. Print this email.
  
  

  How to Take this Course:

  UNC Health offers the following tips to ensure successful completion of the non-employee module:

  1. Please use Internet Explorer or Google Chrome to complete the module
  2. If you are using a MAC, please use Firefox, as Safari causes known errors
  3. Please do not take this module on a cellphone or tablet
  4. Clicking too quickly through the module can cause the module to freeze up
• Print a Shadow Visitor Immunization Verification form and have it completed by your health care provider OR bring your immunization records as proof using this Checklist.
  • You may pick up your badge and turn in your Immunization Verification Form completed by your physician, or hard copy records using the immunization checklist as a guide, to Volunteer Services 24 business hours or more after we have received the email request from your preceptor.

• Please contact your preceptor at least one day prior to your scheduled shadowing time to confirm that your request has been emailed to our office. You will have to reschedule your shadow visit if we do not have the completed request from the preceptor.

• The Volunteer Services Department is open for badge pick-up Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. We are not available on weekends to process or pick-up badge requests. We are located in Memorial Hospital on the Ground Floor.
• NOTE: Shadowing is not permitted in operating rooms.
• Current Medical Center volunteers (compliant and actively volunteering) and employees do not need to complete the HIPAA module or immunization review. Volunteers and employees need to pick up a shadow badge at least 24 business hours after a request has been submitted by their preceptor. Employee badges cannot be worn during shadowing.

To the Preceptor