Interactive multi-session work experience webinar, facilitated by practicing doctors, current medical students, and other members of the MDT. Designed to inform, educate, and give insights into a career in medicine.

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By attending our virtual work experience programme you will gain first-hand insights from practicing doctors and current medical students about the realities of a career in medicine and life during medical school.

 

You will join a simulated patient on their journey from initial presentation to diagnosis and management. You will learn how to conduct a patient consultation, interpret clinical signs and manage a patient in an acute setting. 

 

By the end of this work experience webinar, you will have experienced the healthcare setting from the perspective of a patient and a healthcare professional. 

 

We will finish this webinar with a next steps plan guiding you on how to focus your efforts on your medical school application over the coming months

 

What will happen on the day?

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A Day in the life of a Junior Doctor

 

During this talk a doctor will talk you through a day in their working life. You will gain insights into exactly what it is a junior doctor does on a daily basis, on the positives and negatives of working as a doctor and a full explanation of how they got to where they are today. 

 

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Life as a medical student

 

A top medical student will talk to you about how they got to where they are today, what a their daily life looks like at medical school and give you some practical tips on maximising your chances at application.

Learning from your work experience, a guide to proper reflection

 

Reflection is essential to producing good answers at interview! By signing up to this work experience webinar you will receive a free video guide on reflection and a template to use during this webinar! We will recap the important details before we meet our patient!

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An introduction to clinical history taking

 

Clinical history taking is one of a doctor’s most important skills. Through an interactive workshop, you will learn the key principles underpinning a good patient centred clinical history clinical history, before having the opportunity to discuss questions that we may ask an example patient.

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Managing medical emergencies 

 

Emergencies are a reality of working in medicine, staying calm and thinking logically in a high pressured environment is essential to providing our patients with good outcomes. During this simulated discussion, you will witness an example medical emergency and formulate a management plan with the speakers. 

You will also see which communication skills are necessary when breaking bad news. 

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What next? Using the coming months to build your medical school application

 

We hope that this work experience webinar will have given you inspiration to push forward with your medical school application! We will finish up by guiding attendees through a medical school application timeline for the next few months and giving practical tips on what to do to improve your own application.

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