All Medic Mentor programmes are created and led by doctors, vets, dentists and law professionals, inspiring applying students to remain motivated to their end goal career path. Our mentoring style supports students from school to university. 90.4% of our Summer School students (cohort 2018-2019) received at least one offer to read medicine, dentistry or veterinary sciences with 80% of them receiving multiple offers.

Medic Mentor Students progressing to university  may progress to assist and mentor aspiring students as part of the Scholarship programme. Medic Mentor have multiple student-led initiatives providing an interchange of encouragement and motivation to engage in activities surrounding their chosen career.

Medic Mentor has online communities which are for students and teaching staff and are updated with resources and advice on a regular basis and has a clear emphasis on raising aspirations and widening access to careers in the clinical labour markets.

The website is continually refreshed with new and upcoming information, which is easily accessible to students, parents, and education staff. As part of our 2022 – 23 academic year, regular opportunities to join free preparation conferences are available for students to utilise outside of school timetables.  For new students, we encourage participation in  Get into Conferences to help provide impartial advice and guidance on the academic and non academic requirements of each professions admissions criteria.

Teachers who are signed up for updates, are emailed once a week with news and opportunities for students, parents and teachers.

The Mentor, our quarterly publication contains medical wider reading content for students, and has regular opportunities for students to write and become published in the journal.  Weekly email campaigns to our wider network are sent, which are sent to students, parents and education personnel to provide continual updates on new opportunities for students. Medic Mentor have an engaging active audience across all social media platforms and an easily accessible YouTube channel – Medic Mentor – YouTube.

Collaboration with neighbouring schools is encouraged amongst teachers, parents and students, in order to create a supportive community of students. Students from this huge national network of schools participate in our Virtual Medical Society | Medic Mentors(VMS), Virtual insight conferences (funded for caseload schools) and summer schools. 

We have an active and engaged community of teachers as an online, peer support community, where they are encouraged to collaborate and share best practice via the private Facebook group Medic Mentor Teachers Resource Group | Facebook This group was launched in May 2020 and currently has 1.5k teachers engaged on the platform.  Teachers are encouraged to signpost colleagues to Medic Mentor Education and Facebook group.  The online community of teachers is very active, supportive and welcoming of new members.

Get into Medicine/Dentistry/Veterinary/Law conferences aim to provide students/parents with the necessary information regarding the clinical professions and application process to university.  Attendance at these conferences are aimed at students in years 10, 11,12 to give them the guidance and allow time to implement crucial employability skills and refine in time for the UCAS application process.

As part of our new academic support, we can announce the  Virtual Office Environment, which our community can enter at any point in the working day and link with our chief mentors for advice/guidance on clinical applications to university.  Requests for the virtual office link can be made via the online contact form.

In addition to practising clinicians, Medic Mentor also have a network of university scholarship students. They act as realistic inspirational peer role-models, engaging with our students and parents through a variety of educational platforms such as the Virtual Medical Society, blogs, and Residential/Virtual Summer Schools.

In addition, information provided is continually referenced against each university’s individual admissions policy and the Medical Schools Council, Dental Schools Council and Veterinary Schools Council. This ensures the guidance is current and accurate and up to date with changes to the admissions processes throughout the academic year .  This information is shared with students, parents and teachers through the various mentoring and support programmes mentioned to ensure all areas of the Medic Mentor community are informed with accurate and unbiased advice and guidance.

With the input of 4000 doctors, vets and dentists (as well as university students) the guidance that is provided is of the highest quality. Medic Mentor is an innovative careers leader in the clinical careers due to  an extensive network, and even our Mentors use these resources themselves, which is a sign of how useful the content is to the profession.

Parents have a dedicated page on our website for further access.

Students can access support through various education programmes, for more information,

• National Healthcare Weekend | Medic Mentors
• Virtual Medical Society | Medic Mentors
• Medic Mentor Summer Schools | Medic Mentors
• Medic Mentor Awards Programme | Medic Mentors
• Virtual Work Experience Programmes | Medic Mentors
• Allied Healthcare Mentor – Your Medic Family (alliedhealthmentor.org)

Teachers Medical UCAS Careers Support and Advice | Medic Mentors

There is also a dedicated Student Diversity Fund for students from disadvantaged backgrounds to apply for funding, which provides students with the opportunity to apply for designated widening participation places at residential summer school each year. Applications can be submitted each year between October – April by year 12 students.  Summer School 2021 welcomed 30 widening participation students, 2022 welcomed 40 widening participation students.  Our commitment is to increase funded places each year where available.

For schools completing School Support plans within the Teacher Portal, a focus is placed on the backgrounds and barriers for students highlighting an interest in following a clinical career.  For highlighted schools with a high proportion of disadvantaged students, additional support can be employed by the school through the completion and target setting in the action plan.

Following students into successful enrolment at university, we provide a scholarship programme to continue to mentor, support and develop skills fundamental to their future career path. For more information on the UK’s largest scholarship fund for Medical/Dental/Veterinarian students, please visit; Medical Student Scholarships | Medic Mentors.

As part of widening access commitment for students, all programmes for students are offered on virtual platforms, removing barriers of engagement including travel, professional clothing costs and any other costs normally incurred.  This further allows students from all backgrounds to engage and receive support from the comfort of their own home or school.

Widening access schemes and funding through universities is constantly reviewed to ensure Medic Mentor students receive support on varying widening access provisions.  Eligibility criteria is continually reviewed to ensure accuracy and highlight appropriate priority groups of students to each universities ‘WAMS’ department, further increasing support for all eligible students.

All articles are within the clinical and STEM sectors. Articles published may support with UCAS applications, providing students with evidence of non academic requirements, enhancing research and writing skills. Students regularly reading the publication are able to explore interests and develop wider reading portfolios.

However, we work closely with a network of Royal Colleges, Charities and other Careers Agencies that do cater for other STEM careers. Therefore, we can effectively signpost students, who change their career choices to organisations that can support other STEM professions, such as engineering, laboratory, research and science studies.

Each key stage and subject have been curriculum mapped to ensure content is relevant to students’ learning experience and relevant to the teaching curriculum at all key stages..  For each subject, a clinician has recorded an interactive lesson for use by faculties throughout each caseload school which is available for timetabled sessions, and to support a substitute teacher. 

All lessons provided are uploaded to the relevant teacher portals, with a full written lesson plan (In accordance with OFSTED lesson plan frameworks) and resource guide.  Key Stage 3 lessons have been released, with further lessons in production at this stage.  Following completion of Key Stage 3 – focus will be on production of Key Stage 4 for the remainder of the academic year.

This is a robust method to monitor professional progression and identify areas for improvement as per the requirements for their chosen career. Medic Mentor presents students with a wide range of opportunities to demonstrate where their chosen career paths could lead.  Virtual work experience programmes in Medicine, Veterinary and Dentistry focus students to observe clinicians working in natural environments, demonstrating all areas of the professions.

With regular breakout teaching sessions throughout each virtual session, students are guided on completing self reflection on skills required and development needed to successfully apply to university.   Skills covered include general employability alongside clinically focussed skills, further supporting students highlighting skills gained and those with further development needs.

In addition, Get into conferences are completely free for all registering students, aiming to motivate a wide variety of students to aspire to clinical subjects in higher education and actively promote diversity within the clinical and healthcare careers.

We do not endorse students paying for hospital work experience and encourage students to organise their own placement and shadowing opportunities, developing essential skills in the process, for example, taking initiative, being proactive, effective communication and resilience. This is in keeping with the Medical Schools Council Guidance.

Additionally, Medic Mentor has launched a virtual, live work experience, in collaboration with University Hospitals Birmingham, launched 17^th October 2020, reaching over 30k students to date.  Also in line with Medical Schools Council guidance, this is a free experience for students, which is interactive.  This is a structured, simulated patient journey programme, showing the complete journey from GP consultation through to hospital admittance, diagnostic and treatments, which students are required to apply for, and highlight a teacher/careers leader for reference purposes and ensure suitability of work placement for each individual student.

Throughout each session, students can submit questions to the clinical team delivering each session and are provided with an interactive work experience journal to record their observations and complete reflections on their own skills set.  The programme is open to students from year 10 – 13 and is appropriate for all NHS and clinically aspiring students.  The programme represents the multi-disciplinary team members, and showcases how they interact and work together.

Students are provided with one free session per month, over a 6 month period for medicine and veterinary, 4 months for dental students. Completion of the full programme will accumulate approximately 30 hours of certified work experience.  Teachers are able to observe engagement and progression of individual students via the teachers portal. From the positive engagement and student feedback and suggestions, an allied healthcare work experience for these aspiring students. These work experience programmes also follow the same high fidelity patient simulation appropriate to the career it is representing.

All Medic Mentor related learning opportunities are available through our website www.medicmentor.co.uk. External learning opportunities, different points of entry to university are also discussed through our moderated group chats where students and clinicians can share current information and opportunities that are available.  Get into conferences are completely funded for all aspiring students, to encourage participation. 

Again, with the commitment to Widening Access, the conferences are held on a virtual platform, thus removing barriers of attendance such as travel time and cost.

This enables us to provide individual guidance for each student on these programmes, where they can access appointments via the virtual office environment on zoom, slack instant messaging tool and the admin contact form, providing students, parents and teachers with the means to communicate with the clinicians in whichever format they feel most comfortable with.

The support is available to all students aspiring to enter medical/veterinarian/dental/la schools that have enrolled onto the Awards and Summer School programmes. Students are matched to a clinician and/or scholar who is currently working or studying towards the same aspiration as the student.