Local Year 11 and 12 Students Enjoy Hands-On Medicine Experience at the College
Local Lower Sixth and Year 11 students from seven local schools enjoy hands on medical experience at Bishop’s Stortford College.
Bishop’s Stortford College was delighted to welcome Lower Sixth (Year 12) and Year 11, aspiring medical students from seven local schools to its Memorial Hall on Wednesday 1 May for an interactive workshop with Operating Theatre Live.
Organised by the College’s Head of Higher Education and Careers, Louisa Piercy, and Senior School Assistant Head (Partnerships), Emma Bowater, 47 students from Birchwood High School, Hockerill Anglo-European College, Leventhorpe School, St Mary’s Catholic School, The Bishop’s Stortford High School, The Hertfordshire & Essex High School and Science College, and Passmores Academy joined 13 of the College’s own Lower Sixth aspiring medics for the opportunity to further their knowledge of the human body and gain first-hand experience of a career in medicine.
As seen on the Discovery Channel and BBC Two, Operating Theatre Live brings a real operating theatre to life inside school doors. The organisation has 12 years’ experience of getting students into medical careers, and 44 combined years of teaching anatomy and physiology and national partnerships with schools.
Throughout the day, students worked with the company’s clinical team, learned how to scrub up, charted the treatment of a patient from incident to trauma surgery, and carried out several organ dissections and surgical procedures. Alongside brain, eye, gastric tract, pulmonary-thoracic, and cardio-thoracic dissections, students also learned about anaesthetics, infection control, medical ethics, and clinical work experience.
Tailored specifically to those interested in pursuing a career in medicine, the workshop allowed students to enhance their understanding of A Level biology and build experience and skills which can be used in their university applications and personal statements.
72% of the 60 participating students agreed they felt the workshop added to their work experience and would recommend the opportunity to other students. 62% said they were able to make links between the experience and their A Level biology specification, and 56% felt the experience would enhance their UCAS application.
The College hopes to continue to provide opportunities of a similar nature to local students in the future.
Notes to Editors
About Bishop’s Stortford College
Bishop’s Stortford College is a co-educational independent day and boarding school, taking pupils from 4 to 18 years.
Academic excellence is a top priority at the College. Its track record is already first-rate and is aiming ever higher, with dedicated and talented teaching staff going the extra mile to give pupils the skills pupils need to develop and thrive.
The College believes the breadth of opportunity they offer, balanced with personal growth and strong values of decency and kindness, is what an education for today and tomorrow must deliver.
Underpinning everything is a unique community spirit that enables each pupil to succeed, and to be happy doing so.
The College does not look like most schools of its type. It is different in some important ways.
Bishop’s Stortford College is the modern face of independent education.
For more information, please contact Jo Rockel at joanna.rockel@bishopsstortfordcollege.org or 01279 838659