Work experience placement - Heart Surgery?
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Hi All.
My daughter who is 14 nearly 15 has expressed an interest in heart surgery placement for work experience. It seems that the hospitals around me are not helping with this any longer.
We are based in the Marlborough, Wiltshire area and can travel.
Can anyone here help with a work experience placement for a week at the end of June and early July 2020?
Any help appreciated.
My daughter who is 14 nearly 15 has expressed an interest in heart surgery placement for work experience. It seems that the hospitals around me are not helping with this any longer.
We are based in the Marlborough, Wiltshire area and can travel.
Can anyone here help with a work experience placement for a week at the end of June and early July 2020?
Any help appreciated.
My son was quite interested in medicine at that age, and appeared bright enough. Thru a friend, he got a placement at St Mary's Paddington, in neurosurgery. It was actually quite a negative experience, with loads of junior doctors telling him it was a terrible mistake, and he should get out before he's too far in. So be careful what you wish for.
He's 23 now and a journalist!
He's 23 now and a journalist!
TwigtheWonderkid said:
My son was quite interested in medicine at that age, and appeared bright enough. Thru a friend, he got a placement at St Mary's Paddington, in neurosurgery. It was actually quite a negative experience, with loads of junior doctors telling him it was a terrible mistake, and he should get out before he's too far in. So be careful what you wish for.
He's 23 now and a journalist!
Isn't that the best sort of work experience? No point him finding out how crap a job it is years/££s in.He's 23 now and a journalist!
I've spent rather too much time in hospitals and with consultants recently and I would find their job soul destroying.
You’ll struggle to get hospital work exp at that age. Most of ours are sixth form age. She certainly won’t be allowed anywhere near theatres.
If she wants to see what hospital is like could she get a part time job portering for example, or volunteer on the wards. Your GP surgery may be able to have her for a day?
See if school have any contacts. Failing that, call the local medical school and see what they say.
If she wants to see what hospital is like could she get a part time job portering for example, or volunteer on the wards. Your GP surgery may be able to have her for a day?
See if school have any contacts. Failing that, call the local medical school and see what they say.
My daughter is in the 6th form and trying to get midwifery experience. She had been told to wait until she was 16, and even now she is finding it very difficult as there are a limited number of work experience places at local hospitals. Her applications have the required supporting statements from her school but she has not yet managed to find anything suitable.
Good luck
Good luck
Nurse here with 35 years at the coalface.
Volunteering on the wards at 16+ is probably these days the only way to go. The days of a trip to theatre or critical care for all and sundry are now long gone. I remember volunteers in A&E watching resuscitation attempts, going out with the paramedics and even being scrubbed in theatre. It's all gone now and the most that will be available is likely to be feeding non-complex patients, cleaning and general tidying.
SD.
Volunteering on the wards at 16+ is probably these days the only way to go. The days of a trip to theatre or critical care for all and sundry are now long gone. I remember volunteers in A&E watching resuscitation attempts, going out with the paramedics and even being scrubbed in theatre. It's all gone now and the most that will be available is likely to be feeding non-complex patients, cleaning and general tidying.
SD.
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