{"id":1011,"date":"2019-02-06T16:17:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T16:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2019-02-06T16:17:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T16:17:40","slug":"medstart4u-taster-days-and-work-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/2019\/02\/06\/medstart4u-taster-days-and-work-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"MedStart4U Taster Days and Work Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>East Kent Hospitals University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are delighted to be able to offer a series of free taster days for Year 11 and 12 students who are considering exploring a career in medicine. During the taster days, students will\u00a0 have the opportunity to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>talk informally to current medical students who are studying and working in local hospitals and who will provide a real insight into getting into medical school and what it is like studying to be a doctor.<\/li>\n<li>talk with foundation programme doctors who are in their first years and who will be able to provide first-hand knowledge of life as a busy \u201cdoctor in training\u201d in an acute hospital setting.<\/li>\n<li>learn what it is that admissions tutors, selection committees and interview panels are looking for in candidates and how you can impress<\/li>\n<li>gain practical advice on how to write a good personal statement and what sort of questions to expect at interview<\/li>\n<li>what education and training as a doctor, either in a hospital or GP setting is like.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The taster dates are scheduled to take place on the following dates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>05 March 2019 at the Kent &amp; Canterbury Hospital, Canterbury<\/li>\n<li>02 April 2019 at the Willian Harvey Hospital, Ashford<\/li>\n<li>28 June 2019 at the Queen Elizabeth Mother Hospital, Margate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to the taster days, MedStart Plus provides students with an opportunity undertake a week of work experience in a secondary and primary care setting. MedStart Plus is aimed at students over 16 only who have participated in a MedStart4U Taster Day.<\/p>\n<p>Please note places on both programmes are limited and early booking is advised. For further information please refer to:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/meded.ekhuft.nhs.uk\/resources\/medstart4u\/\">http:\/\/meded.ekhuft.nhs.uk\/resources\/medstart4u\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>East Kent Hospitals University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are delighted to be able to offer a series of free taster days for Year 11 and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/2019\/02\/06\/medstart4u-taster-days-and-work-experience\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40798,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[163995],"tags":[136226,211624,211609,163955],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40798"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}