Abstract
I recently volunteered to help with a day of mock interviews for aspiring medical students. The workshop was run for sixth-form students from deprived backgrounds by Teach First (http://www.teachfirst.org.uk), an independent educational charity. Teach First believe that no child’s educational success should be limited by their socioeconomic background and they work in schools where the majority of pupils come from the poorest families in the country. They also aim to inspire pupils to be more informed and ambitious in their post-18 choices via the Higher Education Access Programme for Schools (HEAPS), and this interview workshop was part of that aim. Coming from a family of teachers, I’ve always known I don’t have the guts, patience, or super-human resilience to work in today’s schools, but I had heard fantastic things about the Teach First programme and jumped at …
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