Medicine Work Experience & Careers Day

Med School Applications - The Morning

Our Medical careers day is ran by current doctors and medical students. Being a doctor isn't all Grey’s anatomy and House. It's worlds apart from what students may envisage the career to be. We'll present a warts and all insight into life as a doctor, from the hours you'll work as a junior doctor, to pay and career prospects.

We'll discuss all the various areas of medicine you may choose to pursue, you may be thinking of medicine as a career but we bet you'll be amazed at all the different branches of medicine you could specialise in!

In the first part of the day we'll go through exactly what you need to do to apply to med school. Beginning with what subjects you should take at GCSE/A-level and the grades required, we'll map out your route to medical school. 

Next up is writing the perfect personal statement for medicine, what to include and what to omit, so you'll know how to use your 47 lines wisely. The medicine personal statement is your first major test when it comes to applying so our team will show you have to secure that invitation to a med school interview.

Doctors and Med students will then explain how to approach the UCAT and BMAT examinations by breaking them down and teaching you exactly what you need to know for the best chance of success. We will then cover the medical school interview, your last barrier to getting that place in medical school. We'll go through the set up of the interviews, how to prepare for them and exactly what to expect from each one. Finally, we'll cover medical work experience, an essential must have for applying to medical school, and how to go about securing some experience that will impress.

Our current medical students will answer all your questions and tell you their experiences of med school. We don't want to put you off but we do want you to go into the decision to study medicine with all the facts so you can decide if you're going to be up for the challenge.

After a break for lunch we’ll then go into the second part of the day, medicine work experience.

Medicine Work Experience - The Afternoon

The second part of the day is practical, where the doctors will take you through some of their day-to-day work.

Medical work experience is invaluable if you're looking to apply to medicine and this afternoon will be your first step to experiencing some of the practical aspects of the job.

We'll have you taking patient notes and learning how to assess patients, all under the watchful eye of your doctors. Together as a group we’ll go through some real life case studies that our doctors will prepare for you. We’ll follow a patients journey from diagnosis to treatment you’ll help and discuss as a group what you think the best course of treatment should be.

All UK medical schools look kindly on students that have practical experience of medicine and medical techniques, it's a large factor in deciding who to invite to an interview and used to differentiate between candidates with similar grades and online work experience is a recognised way to achieve this. You will receive a certificate for the work experience portion of the course too.

We round off the day by hosting a live Q&A session with our team where you can ask anything you like about a career in medicine. We can cover anything from grades, med school interviews, career prospects, work/life balance, anything you like. It’s your opportunity to ask anything and everything you’ve always wanted to know about a career in medicine.

The whole careers day is designed and tailored for students aged 13-18 who are considering medicine as a career choice and we'll make sure you leave the day fully prepared for your future career with a clear plan of what it's going to take to give yourself the very best chance of success and to secure that spot in medical school.