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Get £300 off any Summer Experience booking before midnight 1st April! Use code 300EASTER at checkout.

Get £300 off any Summer Experience booking before midnight 1st April! Use code 300EASTER at checkout.

The Future Doctor Weekend

The Ultimate Work Experience in Medicine

InvestIN Education
InvestIN Education

The Future Doctor Weekend

The Ultimate Work Experience in Medicine

Overview

The Future Doctor Weekend gives students aged 12-14 a chance to test-drive life as a doctor. Learn from top doctors as they guide you through a series of interactive activities: learn to suture a wound, examine patient X-rays and discuss diagnoses. You will also be coached on how to become a doctor, with guidance on subject choices, extra-curricular activities, work experience and more.

You can attend either in-person in London or live online. Register now to gain an edge over other aspiring doctors, and a super-curricular experience to add to your university application.


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An Interactive Masterclass:
  • Top doctors will coach you through a range of interactive activities, including:
  • Review patient X-rays and ECGs, come up with a diagnosis and initiate treatment
  • Stitch up a wound on dummy skin after a live demonstration 
  • An A&E experience: enter an A&E simulation using cutting-edge VR technology and race against the clock to save a patient’s life 
Coaching On How To Become A Doctor:
  • Step-by-step guidance on how to become a doctor
  • Advice on subject choices, extra-curricular activities, work experience and more
An Audience With Top Doctors:
  • Hear from successful doctors and ask them all your burning questions
Boost Your Career Potential:
  • Attendance demonstrates you’ve gained skills that are key to becoming a doctor
  • Complete the online assessment after the programme and receive a personalised certificate to include in your applications
A Whole Year of Career Development:
  • Included in your programme fee is one year’s access to our work experience platform, AmbitionX
  • Over 100 hours of live and interactive online sessions with professionals from 15 different industries
  • Gain experience points and certificates for every session you complete
11.00am

The World of a Doctor

  • Diagnosing patients
  • Your duties as a doctor
  • Key medical skills
  • Issues in healthcare
11.45am

Practical 1: The Virtual Emergency Room

  • Live demonstration of an A&E scenario using the latest Virtual Reality technology
  • Investigate symptoms
  • Discuss diagnosis
  • Examine a patient’s x-ray and ECG
  • Initiate treatment
12.45pm

Lunch Break

  

1.45pm

Practical 2: Suturing*

  • Live practical demonstration from a senior surgeon
  • Stitch up a wound on dummy skin
  • Working under pressure
2.45pm

Focus on Disease

  • Focus on lung disease
  • How exercise improves lung function
  • How to read lung cancer screenings
  • Practical: Identify lung malfunction and suggest appropriate action
4.00pm

Career Coaching: Step into Medicine

  • The journey ahead
  • Subject choices
  • A guide to medical schools
  • Life as a medical school student
  • Extra-curricular activities 
  • Work experience
  • Career paths and specialities of the future
     
4.45pm

Panel Q&A

  • Ask questions to high-ranking doctors across various specialties
  • Guidance on applications from those on the inside
  • Receive valuable advice
5.30pm

Close

  

* For the live online programme, students will do a patient diagnosis exercise instead of suturing. This involves reviewing blood tests and patient consultation notes.

This programme is for students aged 12-14. No prior knowledge or experience is required. The programme involves a mixture of interactive simulations, exercises and Q&A sessions. You can choose to attend the programme either in-person in London or ‘Live Online’; the content is the same for both.

Programme Fee:

In-Person: £195/student for full day

'Live Online’: £165/student for full day

There is no application process, and you can secure your place simply by clicking “Register Now”. We operate on a first-come first-served basis and programme places are limited.

Choose a location below:

In Person

Available dates:

  • 21st January 2024

Venues:

  • University College London (UCL)

Accommodation location:

  • University College London (UCL),
    Bloomsbury,
    London

Included in your programme fee is one year’s access to our work experience platform, AmbitionX. This gives you access to 100+ hours of live and interactive online sessions with professionals from 15 different industries. This is an excellent opportunity to gain a huge variety of professional experience to include in university and job applications. For each session you attend, you will receive experience points and a certificate!

WHAT OUR STUDENTS SAY ABOUT US

Covid-19

In the unlikely event that the in-person programme is completely cancelled because of Covid-19 then students will receive a refund. We have never yet had to cancel a London summer experience, having successfully delivered programmes during the summers of 2020 and 2021, with strict social distancing and excellent feedback. We shall of course adhere to all Covid-related government guidelines in place at the time of the programme and keep student safety as the highest priority.

If you pay via credit because you postponed a previous booking then the credit note will be reissued to you in full.

 

Support

If you are trying to register and the registration box is not appearing it is likely because of firewall restrictions on your desktop device.

You may wish to try on your mobile device instead. Alternatively, please email info@investin.org with details of the programme you want to register for. We will reserve your place immediately and send you a link to pay by card online.