Where do you put all of your work experience?

Hey guys,

I'm not really getting any clear answers or guidance from school, could i just ask where i put all my work experience, surely i cannot put it all on my PS, but i've done so much i dont want it to go to waste?
Is there anywhere on the UCAS it can go?
Applying for 2018 medicine (hopefully )

thanks!

Hey guys,

I'm not really getting any clear answers or guidance from school, could i just ask where i put all my work experience, surely i cannot put it all on my PS, but i've done so much i dont want it to go to waste?
Is there anywhere on the UCAS it can go?
Applying for 2018 medicine (hopefully )

thanks!

You have to pick out the most useful bits of your work experience and reflect on why they have confirmed your decision to want to be a doctor.

It's not supposed to read like a list of procedures/conditions i.e. don't write "I spent a week with a consultant general surgeon and was able to see an appendicectomy, a hernia repair, a cholecystectomy and endoscopy sessions. This has made me want to apply to medical school".

You can talk about the things you've mentioned on your PS (as well as the things you haven't) at your interviews too, again, provided you show that you've linked them to what being a doctor involves and why that makes you want to apply for medical school.

Could you please list the amount of work experience you have done so that I have an idea of what I am up against because I technically have none at the minute. That would be very helpful.

Also a 2018 medicine applicant.

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Sure no problem!

So far I've done:
- A week at a GP surgery, not only with doctors but also with the telecom workers, the GP manager also showed me the financial aspect of running a GP practice.
- A week in a Urology and Transplantation charity hospital in an LEDC, i got to talk to patients about there time there, what complaints etc. also watched a live kidney transplant :O
- A month (once a week) at an LEDC orphanage talking about general diseases and viruses, contraception etc. and why vaccines are important; general stuff.
- A week with a Cardiologist, shadowing him.
- 3 days with an Orthopedic surgeon

- And from Saturday I'm starting a 6 month voluntary program at my local hospice.

I think this is a lot, but obviously others will have way more.
Anyways, I hope this helped

WOW! How easily do you get these work experience and placement? What university will you be applying to?

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Anybody who has got an offer for medicine, how much work experience do you have?

I'm applying this september and currently have 4 days arranged in one hospital department and 3 days in another, and I may be able to get another 5 days if I can find the time.

This is the only hospital work experience I have, but I have others with scouting and running a school debate club and NCS and such, am I completely ****ed? Other people have so so much work experience in comparison.

You have space on your ucas reference. You'll understand when you get there.

Haha. Nice choice. I live in Sheffield but I want to move out and probably apply to Manchester, Liverpool, Hull-York, Southampton.
by the way, I must say that you're very lucky

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You have space on your ucas reference. You'll understand when you get there.

Would the reference include work placement managers e.g doctors?

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That's nice to hear, I still haven't been introduced to UCAS, when do schools normally bring it up? Currently in year 12.

After you finish your AS exams. Before the summer break.

Thank you! Yea, Manchester looks amazing. Really looking forward to uni.