Year 10 Work Experience Queries - Medicine (Victoria)

Randomhuman24

hello all (sorry if this isn’t specifically related to VCE/ATAR stuff)
I am going into year 10 in 2024, and our school requires us to do work experience. Personally, I am very interested in the medical field, and would like to do work experience at a local hospital or clinic of sorts. However, I am not really sure how to go about finding places that are actually open to year 10 work experience (so far - most hospitals don’t have very many specific details or don’t allow work experience from students my age) so I would appreciate any suggestions of where to apply and/or some guidance regarding how to find these positions.

So far, the one place I know for certain accepts year 10 work experience is Monash Health, which I will be applying for, but obviously as it will be quite competitive I would like some backups, and also it seems as though the locations/options are quite limited.

Anyways, thank you for reading - any sort of help regarding this would be much appreciated 🙂

studyhard_77

Randomhuman24

Try:

Austin Health
Dandenong Veterinary
Hospital Work Experience
DPV Health Work Experience
Future Doctors Australia Work Experience Program (Really good one)
Northern Health (I'm not sure if they still do it after Covid)
Royal Melbourne Hospital work experience
Royal Women's Hospital work experience

These were the ones I could find. Hope it helps 🙂

Randomhuman24

studyhard_77 thank you so much! I’ll definitely be checking out all of these programs 🙂

AngelWings

I know Red Cross Lifeblood also does occasionally have work experience students go through. Areas include things like blood donation processing and organ transplant lab work.

Heads up: A lot of these places may not take tours through their theatres or patient areas, due to health and safety regulations (especially after COVID). So, don’t have high expectations, as you may not get to see any of the “cool” things you see in medical shows.

Randomhuman24

AngelWings thank you !!