Medical Society Update

After a long summer break Medical Society has welcomed an amazing group of Year 12s who also share the passion surrounding healthcare. With the UCAT behind us, Year 13s have had a challenging term balancing school and writing personal statements in order to meet the ‘Early Application’ deadline that has just passed—15th October. We are happy to say that all together we have had sixteen early applications for Medicine and Dentistry and there will be more Allied Healthcare applications in the following months. Good luck to all now waiting to see if they will be invited for interviews.

As a part of our presentations, I (Omar Elkhouli 13CNW) delivered a talk to the Medical Society on the importance of NHS values. This included: commitment to quality of care, respect and dignity and compassion to name a few. I encouraged my peers to consider the application of these values to interviews for medical school, as well as emphasis on ensuring they gain experience, whether in volunteering or paid work, that will allow them to showcase these skills in their personal statement. We touched on what it means to be reflective, and ensuring that we ‘show not tell’ when mentioning the experiences they have gained.

We also had another presentation by Mathesh Sithpavananthan 13KSN, highlighting the importance of Medical Ethics. Where we took a look at the importance of medical ethics and how we can apply these ethics as prospective students. The ethical pillars are as listed, “Patient Autonomy, Beneficence, Non-maleficence and Justice”. Following this we had a debate regarding a scenario where a patient who is a Jehovah’s witness was in a critical condition and required a blood transfusion and whether it would be morally correct to give the blood to the patient.

Omar Elkhouli 13CNW