Highlands Sixth Form often benefits from our successful alumni students, three of whom came into school on Wednesday 27th November to meet with prospective students of medicine currently in year 11 and year 12. Yasemin, the widening participation lead at SGUL Medical Education Society, who is now studying medicine after completing a biomedicine degree, Nikki a current medicine student at King's College London and Zeren a neuroscience student at King's College London all came in to speak to our students.

They spoke about the importance of work experience placements in hospitals, how to get them and we heard about the demanding UCAT assessment and how to prepare for it. 

We heard lots of stories about dissections, placements at hospitals and what it is like working in the NHS. At the end of the talk, our alumni spoke to the year 12 students and gave them lots of ideas and resources they could use this year in order to have the best possible applications next year. 

All three alumni are looking forward to coming back later in the year to work with students preparing for the UCAT.