Medicine work experience help

hi, i want to get into medicine but am really struggling with finding work experience, i have just finished my GCSEs

do you guys know any ways i could physically go to a hospital for work experience or shadow a doctor, all work experience im finding is costing like 1K for 5 days which is quite insane

thanks

You shouldn't be paying for medical work experience...if for no other reason than the point of it is to reflect on the experience, not to say how you stood next to a neurosurgeon for 6 hours and learned nothing!

In any event, firstly read this thread linked above: https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6929328

Secondly, work experience for medicine applicants is normally aimed at those in year 12. Doing work experience the summer after GCSEs will probably be considered "out of date" by the time you apply to medicine by medical schools anyway. For this summer you should just focus on enjoying your summer. If you really must, just start making some notes on local hospitals/GP surgeries/care homes/hospices/etc that you can get in touch with later in year 12.

It's probably more practical to aim to do your work experience in the spring or summer break during/after year 12, than any earlier. This will be recent enough to be relevant to your application while also giving you time to reflect on it and incorporate it into your PS, I should think.