What kinds of work?

These are some of the jobs that medical students have found in the past: 

Medically related part-time and vacation work

• Auxiliary nursing in vacations or as bank staff during term time– experience preferred - for the NHS and private agencies e.g. British Nursing Association(ask your local hospital or friends or the University Careers Service/Jobshop).
• Health Care Assistant.
• Summarising medical notes for GP Practices in vacations – via agencies like BNA or advertisement.
• Data entry: transferring medical records to a computer based system – via e mail circulars and the local Jobcentre Plus.
• Clerical assistance in local hospitals – e.g. via flyers in the medical school.
• Laboratory work in vacations – especially if you have taken a lab. based intercalated degree or intend to do so.
• Medical temps. - from medical secretaries to medical filing – via agencies like Lifeline or medical school intranet or agency ads e.g. in Student BMJ.
• Part time clinical assistant roles at teaching hospitals, depending on your experience.
• Work in phlebotomy departments, via Faculty email.
• As patients/actors for OSCE’s, PACES etc and clinical exams, via Faculty email.
• Shadowing junior doctors for government research/statistics.
• Data collection in NHS audits – via medical school ads – at around £7 per hour but requires own transport and to work night shifts.
• Interviewing patients as part of a research project for a drug company.

Other part-time work and vacation work

• Bar work (notices in bars and University Job shops).
• Waiter/waitressing (for experienced waiters in the right restaurants there can be good tips).
• Shop work (if you have worked for one of the major retail chains in your home town you may be able to find a job with a branch in your University town, as you will already have been interviewed and trained by the company and be on their personnel records).
• Office temping (through employment agencies).
• Babysitting.
• Alumni tele. sales (advertised in the University Jobshops).
• Local/seasonal events (e.g. Edinburgh Festival – ticket sales, bar work, security etc).
• Musical tuition or similar for those with relevant qualifications and skills.
• If you qualified in another subject and are studying medicine as a second degree you may be able to use your first qualification to work in that field e.g. as a locum dentist, pharmacist, part time lecturer etc.