The Need

There existed scope for improvement in catering for work experience, often a distinguishing requirement for school students applying to medicine, and certainly a platform for real understanding of a future career:

• School students were often limited in exposure, either only observing one level of staff (e.g. junior doctor), or not rotating beyond one speciality


• Clinical staff would face spontaneous applications for work placements which were not the product of a structured or formal application process.


• Any application received through an attempted centralisation with NHS Human Resources were either linked to clinical staff, and where not, took time and effort to place with doctors


• Doctors would cite difficulty in matching their highly variable schedules over the course of a week to that similar period during which school students were normally on site

Medic Insight was the inception of a unique programme that addressed these areas
1 Source: NHS Lothian Human Resources