Medical Volunteering Experience; HELP

[WhenTheRollIsCalledUpYonder]

My daughter is in Y12 and is wanting to become a doctor. She needs to acquire some work experience in a medical setting but due to COVID, this is proving to be really, really hard.
Do you think universities will modify their requirements and expectations considering the situation?
Does anyone know of any programmes available for students?
Thank you so much in advance! x

Please don’t stress, medical schools know relevant work experience is not easy to get. They very often prefer to see a sustained period of volunteering.

Pre Covid our local NHS trust did offer work experience for nursing & medicine applicants. Not sure it is still happening but worth googling. Dd did this - it was mainly helping to serve meals on a geriatric ward, for a couple of hours once a week. So volunteering in a care home would have been equally beneficial

She also helped with a local disability group who ran activities for young people.

Care home work or volunteering.

Are you near London? GOSH have opportunities for this. Application fairly straightforward but needs effort.

I interviewed med school applicants about their work experience & also had the stress of finding my own DC work experience when she applied to study medicine.

St. John's Ambulance is still taking volunteers, I hope.
Many hospitals are still running work experience programmes (eg Leeds) -- you need to search & search for this in your area.

Things I have seen on applications that were as close as applicants could get include: volunteering with vulnerable people such as care home visitor, helping activity groups for disabled kids, community service roles, shop work, caring for vulnerable family members.

What's important is that whatever similar enough experience the applicant can get, that they can talk about how this experience had overlap experiences with the day to day aspects of being a health professional. Eg., if all they could do was wash someone's hair as a Saturday job, they still had to deal with a human body & keeping a random stranger happy, listening to their needs & preferences, all in 10 minute repeat repeat bursts all day long.

Keep looking & trying & asking around to get her types of WE, but rest assured, many students have only managed very limited WE in last few years.

My daughter is in Y12 and is wanting to become a doctor. She needs to acquire some work experience in a medical setting

Does she already know which medical schools she wants to apply to? Very few require experience in medical settings.

Please make sure she's getting advice from medical schools and the Medical Schools Council web site, rather than relying entirely on what teachers say.

Gosh, thank you all SO MUCH. I'm very, very grateful. My app doesn't ping me when someone responds, so I thought nobody had answered, then I checked in today on an change and here were all your helpful responses.
Thank you once again! xxx

@WhenTheRollIsCalledUpYonder this is very good

bsmsoutreach.thinkific.com/courses/VWE

DC1 has Y12 friends who work as hospital volunteers doing things like meet and greet, work in the volunteer shop etc. It's not medical work but shows commitment to the setting and they seem to get a lot out of it.

Why doesn't she apply to work in care?
Also if there are no openings due to covid surely the university will accept 'well I didn't want to increase the chance of a deadly pathogen circulating so I opted to carry on staying home until the pandemic is over' as an acceptable answer?