Medical work experience is vital for anyone considering applying to medicine. It helps you to decide if medicine is right for you. Then, it shows that you are committed to the cause.
Medical work experience is the best way to see what being a doctor is really like. Plus, it will give you plenty to talk about throughout your medical school application.
This page provides the headline information on medical work experience, before offering a step-by-step guide on what you need to do. Don’t forget to use all the subpages to make the most of the section.
Broadly speaking, there are four types of medical work experience. Click the links below to get more insights and advice about each one, including what it entails and how you get it.
Whatever work experience you do, it’s critical you make it count. Many people think doing the placement is enough. But it’s only step one.
In order to stand out, you must reflect on what you’ve seen. This can be tiring, especially after a long day of work experience.
That’s why The Medic Portal has provided a free personal portfolio tool, which allows you to track all of your work experiences, and what you learnt from them, in a clear and simple way.
We recommend a three-step reflection plan for your medical work experience:
Create your free personal portfolio now so that you can keep track of your work experience from the start.
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