Medicine Work Experience: Please Help!!

Hi I’m currently in S5 and I’m starting to consider what career I would like to pursue in the future. Medicine has recently seemed quite interesting and maybe something I would like to do.
My question is that I understand with medicine you’re supposed to have work experience and volunteering in a healthcare environment. This summer I have work experience, however, it’s working in an office. This is stressing me out a lot as this is not healthcare related.
Now I’m very worried if this work experience is not great for an application for medicine. If so where should I be working and volunteering. I’m also unsure out about UCAT exams being this year and what to expect.
I’m all just very confused and really worried that I’m doing it all wrong and that it’s too late to apply. So if anyone knows if my work experience is good and has more insight and advice for when applying to medicine that would be the most helpful thing ever.
Thanks

Don’t stress too much. Healthcare work experience is a very difficult thing to get and med schools understand that.
Ultimately, what it will help you with is personal statement material and reinforcing your interview answers (alongside obviously helping you figure out whether it is the right career for you or not). Emailing your local hospitals and having a look on the NHS talent academy website could help you with that.
That said, your experiences don’t necessarily need to be medical. Other healthcare professions e.g. physios are a bit easier to get some experience in and you will get just as much out of it. Equally, work in other fields can still help you with the process.
Ultimately, what they’re looking for is that (1) you have some evidence of skills and qualities of a doctor (such as those listed in the GMC guidance) and (2) that you can reflect on experiences that you’ve had. This is the most important part. Even if it’s about the colour of the ceiling or the shape of a chair, as long as you can make a good reflection on an experience and relate it to medicine it’s good. Especially in the personal statement.
As for interviews, you can get by with just having a broad range of extracurriculars that show your qualities or lessons you’ve learnt. There may be some questions about what you saw in medical practice but you can use anything from watching a brain surgery to making tea in a care home to answer this.
You mention the UCAT too, for me it was as simple as 2 months before getting Medify and doing as many questions as possible when I had the time.
Ask me if you have any more questions 👍

It's less the setting of your work experience, but what skills you learn and how you are able to reflect on them. For example, I did 6 weeks in a SEN school, which taught me communication, leadership, empathy and conflict resolution. There are online work experiences you can do for free as well, which are just as valued as in person work experience and can also provide insight into a healthcare setting

Thank you so much! Do you know how I can apply to the online work experiences?

Thank you so much! Do you know how I can apply to the online work experiences?