All statements about Work experience

29 statements about Work experience in 5 sources, by upload date.

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2018

2018-02-17 · Medicine Application - No offers? — recommendation: Ali advises reapplicants to medicine to go through every part of their application with friends who got in and students in the years above, and ask where the weak points were: personal statement, work experience or interviews. — 00:02:33
2018-02-17 · Medicine Application - No offers? — recommendation: Marcus advises applicants who did not get into medicine first time not to beat themselves up and, if it is what they really want, to keep going, do work experience and reflect on what they could have done differently. — 00:13:10
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali: Asked whether medicine applicants should do work experience at a GP surgery or in a hospital, Ali says both. — 00:15:06
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali: To get hospital work experience without knowing anyone on the inside, Ali says you have to go through the official routes. — 00:16:01
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — recommendation: Ali: For medicine work experience anything helps, Ali says, such as volunteering or shadowing a nurse; for GP experience, just turn up at every GP practice in the area and ask the doctors to let you shadow for a couple of days. — 00:13:04

2017

2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — recommendation: Ali says there is no right or wrong answer to "What did you learn on your work experience?": books and videos only give ideas and structure, and the correct answer is what is specific to you. — 00:00:21
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — announcement: Ali presents tips from eight medical students on answering "What did you learn on your work experience?", mock answers from himself and Kenny, and his own somewhat cynical view of work experience. — 00:01:07
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — recommendation: a guest: A medical student advises being careful not to break confidentiality when talking about work experience, while still describing the different things you saw. — 00:01:48
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — recommendation: a guest: The same student advises talking about the pros and cons of medicine seen on work experience, such as doctors working long hours and being tired, and how you would deal with them; the student named their own perfectionism and slowness as something to work on, given the pressure doctors are under. — 00:02:28
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — recommendation: a guest: A medical student advises talking less about the clinical things you saw on work experience and more about the doctors' skills and characteristics and how you can build them up in yourself. — 00:02:57
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — recommendation: a guest: Another student says what counts is what you learnt from work experience, not how much you did: think about the transferable skills, such as teamwork, that you saw others use and learnt yourself. — 00:02:57
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — recommendation: a guest: The student suggests also naming lessons from talking to doctors: a GP told them about financial difficulties, pressure on the system and the ageing population, which they presented as things they had learnt from and were excited to learn more about. — 00:03:47
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — a guest: A medical student says the main lesson from their work experience was how tough medicine would be: many doctors tried to dissuade them, which they found useful. — 00:04:31
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — recommendation: a guest: A medical student who felt lost on hospital work experience says you can learn even by observing; they talked about the multidisciplinary team of occupational therapist, physiotherapist, social worker and doctor. — 00:05:19
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — recommendation: a guest: The student advises picking up on doctor-patient relations, teamwork, or examples of care that was or was not effective and why, rather than the coolest surgery: it shows more insight than name-dropping operations. — 00:06:12
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — recommendation: a guest: A medical student advises not prioritising placements at fancy national or international hospitals over basic work with old and vulnerable people, such as people with learning disabilities. — 00:06:37
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — recommendation: a guest: A student advises describing what you did on work experience, what you saw that gave you thoughts or reflections, and how it made you feel. — 00:07:32
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — Ali says work experience has become a really important part of the medicine application, and the idea that it makes you realise medicine is for you has a massive flaw. — 00:11:52
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — Ali compares choosing a career in medicine from work experience to deciding to marry someone after just a handful of dates. — 00:12:21
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — Ali says it is fundamentally unfair to expect a 16- to 18-year-old to commit to a lifelong career in medicine after a few days or weeks in a hospital or GP surgery, which does not show what the life is like. — 00:13:13
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — Ali says he and the friends he talked to gained little from hospital work experience but a lot from volunteering; he volunteered at a hospice and at a school for special needs students. — 00:13:41
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — Ali says hospital work experience is treated as the holy grail, with applicants going to hospitals abroad, as he did in Pakistan and Nigeria, for a supposed special insight into a doctor's life, which he thinks unfair. — 00:14:06
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — Ali says he and his friends did work experience to tick the box in their applications, and none of them found it particularly useful. — 00:14:29
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — Ali says the only useful thing from work experience is talking to a patient or seeing a good doctor-patient interaction that moves you, and calls that a romanticised story put in personal statements and interviews. — 00:15:49
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — Ali is sceptical that such life-changing moments on work experience exist: he had none, nor did the five or six people he asked, and he dislikes a culture that expects them. — 00:16:15
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — Ali says when applying he struggled to find things he had learned on work experience and took it as a sign he maybe should not do medicine, which he now thinks unfair. — 00:16:43
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — Ali says volunteering should be part of a medicine application, but he is very sceptical of the value of work experience in a hospital or GP surgery, though open to changing his mind. — 00:17:21
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — recommendation: Ali says applicants still need a good answer about work experience, because it is a checkbox of the medicine application: you have to do it, and not having done it looks a bit weird. — 00:18:24
2017-11-29 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "Why should we choose you?" — recommendation: a guest: The same student advises showing skills such as teamwork, perseverance and helping others with specific examples, drawn from work experience, extracurriculars or reading, to back up every claim. — 00:05:24