Hospital Work Experience

Hi,
I would like to do work experience over this summer as I have just finished my GCSEs and I want to do medicine (hopefully) after A-levels. I'm about apply to some hospitals (I know it's quite late :/ ) but they ask area of preference to do my work experience in but I have no specific preference right now so I'm not too sure, but I have to choose quickly.

So i was wondering if any of you have already done work experience in hospitals in any specific area and if you liked that specific area or would have wanted to work in another section instead? Did you learn a lot? Was it mostly shadowing?

Any other help/tips in getting hospital work experience/other medical related work experience (GPs, carehomes etc) will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Hi,
I would like to do work experience over this summer as I have just finished my GCSEs and I want to do medicine (hopefully) after A-levels. I'm about apply to some hospitals (I know it's quite late :/ ) but they ask area of preference to do my work experience in but I have no specific preference right now so I'm not too sure, but I have to choose quickly.

So i was wondering if any of you have already done work experience in hospitals in any specific area and if you liked that specific area or would have wanted to work in another section instead? Did you learn a lot? Was it mostly shadowing?

Any other help/tips in getting hospital work experience/other medical related work experience (GPs, carehomes etc) will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

I did work experience (shadowing) in the research department (clinical trials)

Hi I have also just finished my exams (GCSE’s) I have my work experience scheduled for the 9th of July. I arranged this in April and even then I did not get the dates that I wanted. I am doing my work experience in the outpatients department as this is where they allow 16 year olds. (They probably do in other places as well though)

How did you arrange it? Good luck!

Hi,
I would like to do work experience over this summer as I have just finished my GCSEs and I want to do medicine (hopefully) after A-levels. I'm about apply to some hospitals (I know it's quite late :/ ) but they ask area of preference to do my work experience in but I have no specific preference right now so I'm not too sure, but I have to choose quickly.

How did it go?

Hi,
I would like to do work experience over this summer as I have just finished my GCSEs and I want to do medicine (hopefully) after A-levels. I'm about apply to some hospitals (I know it's quite late :/ ) but they ask area of preference to do my work experience in but I have no specific preference right now so I'm not too sure, but I have to choose quickly.

So i was wondering if any of you have already done work experience in hospitals in any specific area and if you liked that specific area or would have wanted to work in another section instead? Did you learn a lot? Was it mostly shadowing?

Any other help/tips in getting hospital work experience/other medical related work experience (GPs, carehomes etc) will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

It was ok

Just talked to patients. I saw one of the data collection stages of the STAMPEDE and TUXEDO trials.

Sounds good, it's always fun to speak to patients

Yep, I loved it. I was very nervous to begin with but then it just gets really comfortable

Ah I can imagine, what kind of things did you talk about?

Nothing too medically related we talked about football, the weather etc. It was just a normal conversation

Haha definitely shows you have the skills for it to make the conversation so social and casual! thats one thing I'm scared of

I love people I'm sure you will be fine once you get into it

Thanks a lot are you doing a levels now?

nope finished a-levels already I'm on a gap year this year :/

Oh nice, what subjects did you do?

Maths, biology, physics

Only one I completed was physics lol