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For the last week, students and healthcare professionals have been engaging online in I’m a Medic, Get me out of here. Together they’ve talked about everything from favourite jobs in healthcare, keeping motivated at university,  gaining work experience at a GP, exam grades from the 90s, alternative lives, and fish or chips (you have to choose?!).

Six individual healthcare professionals and two teams are talking to the students in the General Practice Zone, including General Practitioners and trainee GPs, Nurse Practitioners and a Practice Manager.

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I’m a Medic, Get me out of here is back! Between the 5th and 16th March, students from 19 schools will be putting their questions to healthcare professionals in the General Practice Zone.

For the latest news and announcements about the event, find us on Twitter, @imamedic_uk, and follow the hashtag, #IAMUK.

Let’s meet the healthcare professionals and schools taking part…

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I’m a Medic returns in March, to give your students the opportunity to meet and interact with healthcare professionals online. Through reading profiles, questioning, and taking part in live chats, school students will get to know people in healthcare roles and find out more about a range of careers in medicine.

Thanks to funding from Health Education East Midlands, and in partnership with The University of Nottingham, University of Leicester and Derby and Derbyshire LMC, schools can take part for free. We are running one zone with healthcare professionals working in General Practice.

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For the last week, students and healthcare professionals have been engaging online in the General Practice Zone of I’m a Medic, Get me out of here. Together they’ve talked about everything from the the hardest exams they’ve ever taken, perspectives on conditions for junior doctors, how learning languages can help you, why they don’t want to be politicians, making difficult decisions with people’s lives as part of a team, and whether robotics will help the work of General Practice in future.

Seven healthcare professionals are talking to the students in the General Practice Zone, including General Practitioners and trainee GPs, a Nurse Practitioner and a Practice Manager.

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I’m a Medic, Get me out of here is back! Between the 6th and 17th November, students from 18 schools will be putting their questions to healthcare professionals in the General Practice Zone.

For the latest news and announcements about the event, find us on Twitter, @imamedic_uk, and follow the hashtag, #IAMUK.

Let’s meet the healthcare professionals and schools taking part…

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I’m a Medic returns this November, to give your students the opportunity to meet and interact with healthcare professionals online. Through reading profiles, questioning, and taking part in live chats, school students will get to know people in healthcare roles and find out more about a range of careers in medicine.

Thanks to funding from Health Education East Midlands, and in partnership with The University of Nottingham, University of Leicester and Derby and Derbyshire LMC, schools can take part for free. We are running two zones, each with 6 healthcare professionals working in General Practice.

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For the last week, students and healthcare professionals have been engaging online in the first zone ever of I’m a Medic, Get me out of here. Together they’ve talked about everything from the wide range of medical careers available, to how to achieve a good work-life balance, to what could be done with Ultimate Power, to how to deal with ‘diagnosis by internet’.

The six healthcare professionals talking to the students in the General Practice Zone include a Practice Nurse, General Practioners, a Practice Manager and a Nurse Practitioner.

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