Experience Medicine with LifeLab Summer School
Thursday 23rd July and Friday 24th July 2026
We are currently running a wait list for this event. Please contact LifeLab@soton.ac.uk to be added to the wait list. To be the first to hear when applications open for 2027 please complete the form here.
Running since 2013, LifeLab has been inviting students currently in Years 9, 10 and 11 who are interested in finding out more about becoming a doctor to attend our Experience Medicine Summer School.
While with us your students will spend 2 days gaining experience of what it is like to train and work as a doctor. During the time with LifeLab, they will have the chance to:
- Learn how to perform clinical skills and practice these on a model
- Experience anatomy and pathology teaching
- Speak with health professionals
- Talk to medical students about training as a doctor and find out how the application process works
- Listen to our keynote speaker talking about life in medicine
- Take part in a trauma scenario
Please see an example of the course programme. Please note this is subject to change.
Reserving a place
The 2 day programme costs £180. All food and drink are included, but participants need to make their own transport arrangements. Accommodation is not included.
Places are allocated on a first come first served basis.
Bursary spaces
We have free bursary spaces available for those students who meet 1 of the following criteria:
- Receiving Free School Meals at any point during their secondary school education
- Parents, guardian or self are currently in receipt of a means tested benefit.
- Being a Young or Young Adult Carer
- Living or grew up in Local Authority care
- Living in an area with a postcode which falls within the lowest 20 per cent of Index of Multiple Deprivation or IMD Quintile 1.
We are now offering students the chance to apply for a bursary place for the Lifelab Summer School through an online form. Please can you encourage students who meet these criteria to complete the form and a member of the team will get back to you in the spring.
For bursary placements, we are shortlisting applications together rather than 1st come 1st served. We will shortlist in April and again in May.
For more information on the above, please contact LifeLab@soton.ac.uk
Click here to download the programme flyer.