We are a teaching hospital – inspiring the next generation
Posted: 5 April 2022
The insightful programme covers a range of topics including the journey to medical school, the realities of working as a doctor and choosing and applying for a medical speciality area to train in.
As well as lectures, students try practical and clinical skills, which are an everyday feature of life as a junior doctor. Set up as simulated clinical stations, this includes basic life support resuscitation, taking an electrocardiogram (ECG), taking a history from a patient, discussing basic heart physiology and taking blood pressure.
Students are able to speak to a range of experienced clinical staff and get an insight into working at West Herts to follow their ambition to be a doctor.
We’ll be offering remote sessions in June and a face-to-face session in October 2022. Contact our Medical Education Centre at westherts.mec@nhs.net for more information.
- For more information, please contact the communications team on: 01923 436280 or email: westherts.communications@nhs.net. For out of hours media enquiries please call the Watford General Hospital switchboard on 01923 244366 and ask for the on call communications manager.
- West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust serves people from across Hertfordshire, north London and further afield. It operates from three hospitals; Watford General, St Albans City and Hemel Hempstead. The trust has a catchment area of over 500,000 people and is one of the largest employers locally, with around 5,000 staff and volunteers.
- For more information about our hospitals, visit www.westhertshospitals.nhs.uk. You can also join our followers on Twitter (twitter.com/westhertsNHS) and find us on Facebook (facebook.com/westhertsNHS).
