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Thursday 17:35
Widening participation at medical school and in foundation training: a policy discussion workshop
Widening participation doesn’t end when a student is admitted to medical school. This workshop aims to explore the issues widening access students might face throughout their time at medical school and in their foundation years. Attendees will be invited to contribute to a policy discussion that may inform the NMSWPG’s future work in this area
Anna Harvey
Anna returned her final year of medical school at King’s College London in August 2020 having spent the last year working full time at the BMJ as Editorial Scholar, where she oversaw all the content the BMJ produces for students, including podcast Sharp Scratch. She has a longstanding interest in medical education and was a founding member of the National Medical Students Widening Participation Working Group, as well as creating education resources for medtech startup Medics.Academy.
She has written on widening access to medical education for the BMJ. Her clinical interests are in pregnancy and complex social factors, maternal and foetal medicine and assisted reproduction and she is President of the British Undergraduate Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Outside of medicine, Anna can usually be found in one of London’s independent music venues or running somewhere very slowly.
Thursday 18:20
Cardiff University’s Widening Access to Medicine Mentoring Scheme
WAMMS is a medical student-led mentoring scheme with three main goals: to encourage Welsh state school students to study medicine by raising aspirations, to assist Welsh students with the application process, and to increase the number of successful Welsh applicants. By involving medical students on placement around Wales, we have been able to visit schools in every county. Our mentors give support and guidance to pupils in Years 11-13 who are interested in medicine, and offer advice on topics such as personal statements, interviews and work experience, alongside sharing their experiences of university. In our presentation we will provide an overview of Cardiff University’s Widening Access to Medicine Mentoring Scheme and our work across Wales.
Contact us
Email: WAMMS@cardiff.ac.uk
Facebook: fb.me/cuwamms
Instagram: @cu_wamms
Twitter: @CU_WAMMS
Thursday 18:30
Widening Access to Medical School During the COVID Pandemic
We would like to take you through our work during the lockdown period and how we quickly designed and implemented a new virtual UCAT series to support students during an unprecedented and difficult time. We will also showcase the new virtual work experience created that replaced our usual in-house work experience, and how this enabled us to deliver to a much wider audience.
We will reflect upon the challenges we encountered, and what went well, and how we can use this to continually improve our sessions. We will also have a look at the year ahead, and how we are adapting all our usual workshops and events to align with current restrictions imposed by both the Government and schools.
WAMS Peninsula Medical School
Plymouth Widening Access to Medical School (WAMS) is a student body working in close liaison with the faculty to inspire and support students primarily across Devon and Cornwall aspiring to study Medicine. Our work starts from engaging primary school age children to learn about medicine and allied healthcare professions, going up to providing specific application support during sixth form. This includes visits to schools across the south west, hosting in-house workshops as well as running an e-mentoring program which provides one to one support. During lockdown, we have run multiple cycles of UCAT sessions, as well as the successful delivery of a live and interactive 3 -week work experience program for core widening participation students globally.
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