*Closed* - Work Experience and Voluntary Work [Part 1 of 2]

If I do decide to mention it, I would not make it clear it was in year 6.

That would be foolish

Hey guys, can anyone answer my question?

Do you need to have any sort of evidence for work experience/shadowing that you do. If so, what type of evidence do you need exactly. Does it have to be a certificate or just a letter? Does it need the hospitals HR signature, or can it just be signed a doctor?

Any help and advice would be great.

Hey guys, can anyone answer my question?

Do you need to have any sort of evidence for work experience/shadowing that you do. If so, what type of evidence do you need exactly. Does it have to be a certificate or just a letter? Does it need the hospitals HR signature, or can it just be signed by a doctor?

Any help and advice would be great.

Is a charity shop good experience? I'm only 15, so when is the average time that people hoping to study medicine begin to get work experience in caring environments? Thank you x

Hi guys so I'm going to apply for GEM but unfortunately due to family illness I only achieved a 2;2 in my undergrad degree. So, I'm hoping to study for an MSc next academic year. It essentially leaves me a lot of free time to try to work on my application whilst also caring for my father and working as a HCA. So far I have completed voluntary placements in ED and Immunology OP, I ran a small voluntary research project at a local University, I volunteered at the local rehabilitation group my father attended post-stroke and I'm a member of St Johns' Ambulance. I'm about to start a placement in Anaesthetics in both critical care and theatres. Afterwards I'm hoping to volunteer at my old college helping out with practical classes. So, is there anything glaringly obvious that my application lacks?

Thanks, Arron.

Hey, it is my goal to study Graduate Entry Medicine and I am currently looking for relevant work experience.

Would something like a Band 1 role in the NHS, for example as a Kitchen Assistant, be suitable as a last resort?

I am considering all options and I want to get something as soon as I can. I am not returning to England until the end of June so I will be able to start working then. I have been looking on the NHS website.

Is there certains Bands that wouldn't be relevant?

Also I currently work in a nursery twice a week, would that, at least loosely, be semi-relevant experience?

I teach English to them but I also help out when they cry and stuff when I am there, I don't change nappies or feed them though.

As in the short, week long placements people get. I volunteer in the A&E department at a local hospital, amongst other things, but I'm struggling to obtain any shadowing placements or anything of that nature. Will my volunteering count as clinical experience, or will I be hindered by this if I cannot find a placement?

You really need some sort of shadowing experience where you get an insight into what the daily life of a doctor is like. If your current volunteering isn't giving you that then I'd suggest trying to identify a friendly doctor who you might already be familiar with from your volunteering and asking them if it's ok for you to follow them around for a few days.

For graduate entry medicine, is seven months volunteering at a hospice enough? (I do other things too of course, I'm just particularly asking about this.) Due to schedule changes I won't be able to continue volunteering at the one I'm at, should I drop it as seven months is enough (I also volunteer for St Johns, at a care home, a hospital, conversation classes with refugees, for Leeds Marrow and tutoring scheme) or should I find another hospice to transfer to? Also, the care home I volunteer at is a residential care home, is that inadequate, am I best looking for a nursing home?