We have just [August 2020] recieved these emails from two students who did work experience with us last year:
“I hope life is treating you well in the midst of this pandemic, and that work is not too stressful. It’s been a while since we last spoke and I’ve been eager to see how you are doing and to let you know how life is going for me! I’ve recently attained a spot on a medicine course at XXXX, and upon reflection realised that this would not have been possible without the generosity of you and your colleagues by offering me an amazing week of work experience in 2019! I truly can’t express my gratitude and the memories that I made along with YYY are some that I’ll cherish forever. Thank you so much for the amazing work you do, and for inspiring me to take a leap in medical world.”
“Just to let you know that I have got the grades I needed to study medicine in XXXX! Term starts for me on the 7th of September. After a very stressful few days, I got my results emailed out to me this morning, which were somehow 4 A*s. I’m still in shock but its slowly beginning to sink in! Thank you so much for all your help and guidance. The work experience was such an amazing opportunity and was such a great week. Having that more in depth view of medicine was so helpful at the interviews because it gave me so much more to talk about. Also, I still have no idea what area of medicine I want to go into but I’ve got a while to decide yet! Hope you are keeping safe and keep in touch”