Is hospital work experience worth it for medicine applicants?
Shadowing, volunteering and care work before applying.
Axis: a checkbox; volunteering teaches more … essential for choosing medicine
Answers by date: 4 records in 4 sources, newest first; the answers above are the current ones. The advice was refined (2018), never reversed, in these records.
| date | who | answer | source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-29 | 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. | Live Stream - Hangout 00:13:04 |
| 2018-05-01 | Ali | Asked whether medicine applicants should do work experience at a GP surgery or in a hospital, Ali says both. | First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A 00:15:06 |
| 2017-11-08 | Ali | 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. | Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience 00:17:21 |
| 2017-09-23 | Ali Abdaal (channel) | The channel replies to a viewer who has done no work experience that this would affect the personal statement and interview: medicine applicants need work experience. | How to write a Medicine Personal Statement - 13 tips creator comment |