Medical Sciences Careers

• About: Session covering course information and career prospects in all of our medical science courses offered at Newcastle University. 

• Duration: 45-60 mins

• Age Group: Year 12-13

• Maximum Students: No Max

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Ethical Case Studies

• About: Covers the importance of ethics in medical sciences and interactive ethical case studies in medical science undergraduate programmes. 

• Duration: 45-60 mins 

• Age Group: Year 12-13

• Maximum Students: No Max

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Applying to...?

• About: How to apply for a range of Medical Science Courses 

• Duration: 30-60 mins

• Age Group: Year 12-13

• Maximum Students: No Max

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Strawberry DNA

• About: The basics of DNA and extracting DNA from strawberry.

• Duration: 60 mins

• Age Group: Year 7-9

• Maximum Students: 30 Students

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Personal Statements

• About: Students learn about how to write a comprehensive personal statement for clinical programmes.

• Duration: 45-60 mins 

• Age Group: Year 12-13

• Maximum Students: No Max

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Interview Workshop

• About: Differences between traditional and MMI interviews for medicine and dentistry with interactice practice interview questions, information about the STAR technicue and basic ethics case studies. 

• Duration: 60 mins 

• Age Group: Year 12-13

• Maximum Students: No Max

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UCAT

• About: What is UCAT? How to prepare for UCAT.

• Duration: 60mins

• Age Group: Year 12-13

• Maximum Students: No Max

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The 'Tooth' about Dentists

• About: Students practice dentistry skills like guessing how much sugar is in drinks, practicing using mirrors, and cleaning decay out of teeth!

• Duration: 60 mins

• Age Group: Year 4

• Maximum Students: 30 max.

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Nutrition Label Lab

• About: Students carry out a sensory analsysis exploring how we taste. Student then learn about nutritional information and compoenents of food, and how packaging influences what we choose to buy in the shops and design their own food label creating a new smoothie about to hit the shelves.

• Duration: 45-60 mins 

• Age Group: Year 7-8

• Maximum Students: 30 Students

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24 Hours in A&E

• About: Experience being a junior doctor in A&E 

• Duration: 45-60 mins

• Age Group: Year 7 & 8

• Maximum Students: No Max

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Saved by the Gel

• About: Students learn about pharmacy and the role of a pahrmacist, and then create and package their own ibuprofen gel using university equipment.  

• Duration: 60 mins

• Age Group: Year 7-13

• Maximum Students: 30 Students

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Forensic Psychology

• About: Students cover different tasks relating to the role of a forensic psychologist. The session will touch on psychopathy, eye witness testimony, offender profiling and interview techniques.

• Duration: 45-60 mins

• Age Group: Year 7-11

• Maximum Students: 30 Students

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The Brain Game

• About: Students learn basic elements of Neuroscience covering the different brain lobes and their specific roles and functions. Students will create a 'brain cap' to be used as a revision tool and carry out some brain lobe ttests to explore the different functions.  

• Duration: 45-60 mins

• Age Group: Year 9-13

• Maximum Students: 30 Students

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The Rise and Fall of Elite Athletes

• About: Potential careers and illegal substances in sports.

• Duration: 45-60 mins

• Age Group: Year 9-13

• Maximum Students: 30 Students

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