POTENTIAL doctors are being offered help to get into medical school.

Bradford Royal Infirmary is running a training day on Saturday, October 28, offering help to fill in applications for places to study medicine.

Anna Mehrem, 18, is about to start medical school and praised the support she received from staff at BRI.

The teenager, who has won a place at Leeds Medical School, gained work experience at the hospital when she was 16 and then went on to take part in the hospital’s specialist courses helping enterprising youngsters who are set on a career in medicine.

Students who sign up for the Introducing Medicine summer school and other courses linked to it not only get support and encouragement from clinicians and staff but they also see for themselves what life is like on a busy ward, caring for patients.

Anna, who was educated at St Bede’s and St Joseph’s Catholic College, said: “BRI definitely prepared me with the skills to get this far and I would recommend these courses to anyone thinking of doing medicine."

“Who knows – one day I might return to BRI as a doctor. I’d like that because it would be a great place to work.”

All of the courses are put together by Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s clinical education team and are overseen by the Trust’s deputy medical director, Alex Brown.

The Trust’s work experience co-ordinator, Adele Speight, added: “I’m proud that Bradford hospitals can play such a role in creating opportunities for these young people who are clearly set on a career in medicine.”

To attend the training day email adele.speight@bthft.nhs.uk