Practicals
You can participate in the shadowing of medical practitioners where you may make rounds with doctors, witness a broad variety of examinations and treatments and/or witness surgeries.
You could also look into volunteering in a 'caring' or medically related environment. This is done through Student Community Action Newcastle in places such as the
- Children's Foundation, Northumberland,
- Tyne and Wear NHS Trust,
- Newcastle Society for the Blind,
- Patients Advice and Liaison Service (PALS),
- St Oswald's Hospice,
- The Stroke Association,
- ‘East End Health’
- or The County Durham Society for the Blind and Partially Sighted
Students volunteering with children, the elderly and vulnerable people will need to undergo a CRB check (Criminal Record Bureau). This should be done immediately upon arrival in the UK as it takes a few weeks to arrive. Due to this, volunteering in this field is only possible for students to come for a year.
With many of you already volunteering back home, you know well how stepping into communities that are not related to the university but more to ‘real life’ means getting a completely different insight. So doing the same when abroad takes you out of the university into how people in Newcastle and surroundings live.
