Career exploration: frequently asked questions

Q. What is an Enriching Educational Experience (EEE)?
Q. How does a EEE shadowing activity differ fom an elective?

Q. What is an Enriching Educational Experience (EEE)?

As you consider your future career identity, early experiences can help you appreciate a wide range of medical specialties and professional identities. One component of this process is shadowing, where you observe a licensed medical practitioner in his or her environment. This non-curricular clinical activity, part of the ICE:CAP curriculum, is referred to as an Enriching Educational Experience (EEE). In addition to enhancing learning and providing mentorship opportunities, shadowing can help you identify personally suitable and meaningful specialties for further exploration – and even 'select out' specialties that may no longer be personally relevant. 

Q. How does a EEE shadowing activity differ from an Elective?

A EEE activity is a non-curricular clinical experience often referred to as shadowing or an observership. It is part of the ICE:CAP curriculum in Foundations. A EEE must be registered on MedSIS in advance of the activity.

Formal electives are only those experiences that are approved as such and occur during the 14-week fourth-year course, ELV 410Y.