Student competition to plan and star in your own careers interviews!

Future Morph is asking you to develop your own interview where you will plan a set of 10 questions to ask your choice of healthcare or medical science staff. This competition is open to all students aged 11-16 years and the winning interview will be included in our new ‘Beyond Medicine’ section on the Future Morph website.

‘Beyond Medicine’ will target young people considering studying medicine and will highlight the range and variety of job roles within the field of medicine, taking them beyond the idea of being a doctor. There are so many branches of medicine available but often young people are unaware of the options available to them. Students may want to combine their science and engineering skills as a medical engineer designing the next artificial limb, they may want to help babies overcome jaundice using medical physics, or they may want to work towards finding a cure for disease in a clinical trials setting, to name but a few.

Here is what you need to do….

1. Tell us who you would interview, e.g. medical physicist, paramedic, midwife, biomedical scientist – make it an interesting profession and remember they don’t have to work in a hospital as long as their job is in the field of health/medical science.

2. Let us know why you choose your interviewee – is it a job that you know a lot about or are you interested to find out more? Do you know someone in that profession? Have you done some research and come up with the most bizarre medical-related job you can find?

3. Location of the interview, e.g. hospital department, ambulance, community centre.

4. Tell us your 10 interview questions – try to keep your questions short and clear. Think about the story you are trying to create. Remember these questions should try to find out as much about the interviewees jobs as possible and should be things that young people want to know about the different careers selected.

The winning student will be given the chance to ask their questions directly to their chosen interviewee and be filmed at their school. Their interview will then be uploaded onto the Future Morph website.

Closing date for entries is 7th October 2011. We would like to carry out the interviews in Oct/Nov 2011 during the Autumn term. Please send all entries to us at the address below, either by post or e-mail.

Future Morph
The Science Council,
32-36 Loman Street,
Southwark,
London, SE1 0EH.

Why not take it further?

If you enjoyed carying out this task, why not use your interview questions to apply for the Secondary Leaders Award. 

Students applying for the Secondary Leaders Award are required to submit a written article about their interview(s). You can view some of the fantastic interviews from last year by clicking here. Students may also submit a video or podcast. The written article must be at least 650 words in length, but there is no maximum! There are opportunities for the best and most interesting articles to be published.

For more information or to apply for this award please visit the Primary, Secondary & Advanced Leaders Award website.