Work experience

Exciting times! After a fair amount of pestering I have finally secured work experience at a care home next week, I have passed the interview for work experience at a cancer unit, and I have an interview for work experience with the local air ambulance! (Cue ecstatic shouting). I think that due to the times when I can go, I’m going to ask the air ambulance and cancer unit if I can do a block of work experience with them (two to four weeks) the year after next, as I’m planning on applying for deferred entry (having a gap year).  However, I do want more experience this year, so I’m approaching other organisations with the hope of doing some in the school holidays – at the moment I’m in correspondence with a hospital and a local GP. I’m finding it very difficult to secure any work experience at the moment, mainly because most of my emails and phone calls go unanswered. If anyone out there has a few tips about who to talk to/where to go, I’d be very grateful.

During this upcoming year I want to organise my gap year by securing at least three to six months of solid full time work experience at numerous places to get a feel of what it will be like to work in the medical profession, and also about what kind of doctor I’d like to be, and what speciality I want to work in. The other six months I’m going to break down into working and part time work experience, and possibly travelling, but I’m not sure about that yet.  

So I’m excited, about all of this, and if any of you guys out there have any suggestions about where to get some work experience in the health industry, please shout!