Do you think these EC activities are enough?

Hi,

OP

Hi,
I've been studying my AS levels, and I have been wanting to study medicine for a long while now. I have done the following activites
-St George's spring school
-Kings College K+ programme
-Volunteered as a teaching assistant
-Volunteered in helping little children to read
-Volunteered in a elderly centre for a few months
-Work experience- shadowing in a large Health Care centre

Do you think there's anything else that I'm lacking, that would help me stick out? In my personal statement I plan on talking about these things and explaining how they've inspired me to want to do medicine and such.
Thank you in advance! :smile:

Reply 2

S.G.

22

I thought extra curricular was things like sports. This is work experience and voluntary work

Reply 3

RDB1826

10

This is all great stuff, keep it going. However ECs (as @SGHD26716 has mentioned) can also relate to things not directly related to Medicine/Healthcare, this could be sports, music, school societies and activities you've been involved in. But I wouldn't really say you're lacking anything as such, I've just suggested more ideas.

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Reply 4

JubbuTheHutt

OP

Original post by RDB1826

This is all great stuff, keep it going. However ECs (as @SGHD26716 has mentioned) can also relate to things not directly related to Medicine/Healthcare, this could be sports, music, school societies and activities you've been involved in. But I wouldn't really say you're lacking anything as such, I've just suggested more ideas.

Alrighty thanks! I'll try and include other things like going to a youth club and going swimming too, if that would be useful in my personal statement. :smile:

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RDB1826

10

Original post by JubbuTheHutt

Alrighty thanks! I'll try and include other things like going to a youth club and going swimming too, if that would be useful in my personal statement. :smile:

Absolutely include those things, universities also like to have an insight as to what an applicant could contribute to the university (and it suggests you don't just study 24/7!)

Reply 6

S.G.

22

Original post by JubbuTheHutt

Hi,
I've been studying my AS levels, and I have been wanting to study medicine for a long while now. I have done the following activites
-St George's spring school
-Kings College K+ programme
-Volunteered as a teaching assistant
-Volunteered in helping little children to read
-Volunteered in a elderly centre for a few months
-Work experience- shadowing in a large Health Care centre

Do you think there's anything else that I'm lacking, that would help me stick out? In my personal statement I plan on talking about these things and explaining how they've inspired me to want to do medicine and such.
Thank you in advance! :smile:

How much time did you spend in the elderly centre and how long doing work experience?

Thanks

Reply 7

Vodka

8

Original post by JubbuTheHutt

Hi,
I've been studying my AS levels, and I have been wanting to study medicine for a long while now. I have done the following activites
-St George's spring school
-Kings College K+ programme
-Volunteered as a teaching assistant
-Volunteered in helping little children to read
-Volunteered in a elderly centre for a few months
-Work experience- shadowing in a large Health Care centre

Do you think there's anything else that I'm lacking, that would help me stick out? In my personal statement I plan on talking about these things and explaining how they've inspired me to want to do medicine and such.
Thank you in advance! :smile:

That's more than enough in my opinion. Quality > Quantity. By the time you start writing your personal statement, you'll find that you'll have too much to talk about with a 4000-character limit. Choose a work experience/EC activity or two which you have learnt something about Medicine. Admissions tutors have emphasised that they rather read a personal statement which is detailed on the candidate's experience, than a long list of work experience/EC activities they have done.

Do you think these EC activities are enough?

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