Healthcare Professionals: Engage school students with your work
Connect school students with healthcare outside the classroom, and help them discover STEM careers in I’m a Medic, Get me out of here.
It’s all online and text-only (no audio or video). All you need is a web browser.
Chat with students in text-only live Chats
Answer their questions about you, your work, your salary, or any other topic
Support students to see healthcare as ‘for them’ and break down stereotypes of what a Healthcare Professionals is ‘supposed’ to be.
You should expect to spend an average of an hour and a half per month engaging with students across the academic year. The activity is flexible and works around your schedule – join in at the times that suit you. You’ll retain control over your availability: block off days when you can’t take part, set the number of chats you can manage per week – we’ll arrange the rest.
It only takes 2 minutes to apply. We’ll be in touch if we have the funding to support your place in the activity
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Who can apply? All professionals working in fields working within healthcare are welcome to apply.
You could be working in industry, academia or the public sector
You could be a technician, an apprentice, or in roles like comms or management
Take part to show students the wide range of Healthcare Professionals careers out there.
Learn about up to 40 relevant Healthcare Professionals, through their profiles, including their CVs
Connect with researchers in 30-minute, text-based, online Chats
Deepen their understanding and continue engaging with the Healthcare Professionals by sending follow-up questions
Decide which Healthcare Professional deserves the £500 winner’s prize
Review their learning through a facilitated discussion
🗨️ What Healthcare Professionals say:
“The questions asked were both fun and challenging, keeping me on my toes at all times and giving me a fresh perspective and enthusiasm for my own research”
“Love, love, loving taking part in @imascientist, so much fun, very engaging”
