Job for Pre-medical student

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Hi,

One of my friends has taken a year out of college and is applying for medicine in the UK. They want to work full time for the year somewhere that will give them a lot of experience in the medical area before they head to the UK. At the moment they are considering applying for a job as a healthcare assistant in a hospital or nursing home. Volunteering would also be an option but just one day a week or for one or two weeks during the year.

I'm just wondering do ye av any ideas for jobs or volunteering for the experience?

Thanks in advance

tallaght01

Auxillary jobs are a good way to experience hospitals. I imagine the reality might put some people off the idea of applying to medicine all together though. Your mate might want to make contact with a university lecturer and ask if he can get involved in a research project. He can tell them he's interested in medical research, and wants to see how it all works. In reality, most research teams would love to get their hands on someone who will do donkey work for free, and your mate will get his name on a paper at the end of it. Win win situation!

Dr Galen

go for the healthcare assistant job i say. he'll get a decent insight into how hospitals run and work but also will see all the stuff that they don't teach you in college.......hot nurses (both female and male), poo and vomit, mad patients running around naked at four in the morning with a bedpan on their head etc etc etc.

I know several trainee medics who work in my hospital and they swear by it. If he's a sound guy, the nurses wil look after him too, as from experience, when we get a care assistant on the ward from the agency that wants to/is training to be a doctor they always get a certain repsect. I think its because it shows they actually WANT to be a doc and not just doing medicine because they got 4 million leaving cert points and that they are prepared to get stuck in.

Vorsprung

I worked in Vincent's doing catering, and did a bit of Nurse on Call too. Both good money, NOC pretty handy if your hours are flexible, not great during the summer though (loads of penniless students looking for hours).