How to strengthen physician associate msc application?

, my personal experiences will help me better understand and empathise with patients with mental health conditions."

Remember UCAS uses a plagerism checker on personal statements so make sure you write in your own words.

Applying for care jobs:
A good way to get some good quality care agencies to approach is to call your GP receptionist and say you are looking at getting an at-home care worker for someone in your family and does the practice have any recommendations. Or if anyone you know knows any GPs, or primary care practice nurses etc, it's a good question to ask your network.

Care agencies are variable in quality, do phone around, meet them, read the reviews, etc. Resist those that want you to pay for a course before you start imo. Do think in advance about the questions you want to ask the agency - what sort of patients do they look after - is there an opportunity to work with patients with dementia, parkinsons or those that have had a stroke for example - more challenging patients will give you more to talk about in your statement. You could ask what geographical area does the agency cover, do they do hour-long visits / half-days / full-days or a mix? Think about if you'd be willing to do overnight work or not (and as you want patient experience you are not going to want overnight work with a patient that maybe needs help getting up and going to the loo twice in the night and nothing else for 10 hours). Ask them how much work they think they'll be able to get you (you'll probably be on a zero hour contract). I'd also let them know you'd want to work with a variety of patients to get as much range of experience as possible, not just work full-time for 1 patient.

If you are going to do this when you get back from your trip abroad, then I'd probably try both at-home care agencies and actual care-homes (again, you want to visit and see what they are like as care homes are highly variable in patient populations, atmosphere etc). A care-home will have much sicker patients, as well as staff like nurses and visiting Drs you will be able to talk to over time, so again, might be better overall experience and insight. The best care homes will probably want experience, but not all will. If you are in a fairly big town or city there should be lots and lots of options, you could reasonably do some googling and make a short-list and get your cover note and CV ready before you go abroad. You might want to try and group your shifts into a 4 day pattern and then spend a day volunteering too.

Care work applications:
Don't get discouraged if they aren't advertising vaccancies, drop them a cover-letter email that explains what you're looking for and attach a short CV (1 page) - they are going to be as interested in soft-skills than in a list of all the modules you did at uni
E.g. -
"Organised a fund-raiser for my university, this included keeping meticulous and accurate records, and liasing with many different departments"
- or - a section on your CV called Relevant Skills (look up a care-worker job description and then think about anything in your past that is relevant) - this can even be that you are confident in cleaning and cooking - if you come from a multi-ethnic background you can say, Confident cooking both English and Bengali meals, for example.
You could include a hobbies section and, if you can do them, include things that are offered at many care homes: art, knitting, singing, gardening, play the piano, etc

The only exception is if you did a module in something like public health, so then:
2020-2023. B.Sc. Biomedical Science (2:1). Included modules on public health and disease pathology (or anatomy, cancer etc).
2020: 3 A levels: Biology (A), Chemistry (B), Maths (B).
2018: 10 GCSEs including English (B) and Maths (A).
Languages: 1st language is English. Seak fluent Spanish, and conversational Portuguese (languages are useful especially if yours match any that have large populations in your area).

Your cover letter to a care agency/care home can touch on areas you might not have experience in but showing awareness could help, e.g. "I have a good understanding of the importance and challenges involved in care work, including the need to carefully manage eldery skin, for patience and the ability to explain things simply, x and y..." etc (read up and include some relevant examples).

I just looked at the top 4 rated care homes near me (should appear in search on google maps), and there are things like: £500 starting bonus, blue light card, fast-track progression to advanced care practioners for suitable candidates, flexible shifts - choice of FT/PT/contracted hours/bank shifts, opportunity to take QFC modules in health and social care, free DBS check, no experience necessary comprehensive training available free of charge, etc.

A hospital HCA role is likely to have a longer start timetable - you wouldn't believe the amount of paperwork it takes to onboard to an NHS job the first time you go into the system.

Good luck!