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Organise workshops, invite speakers, and create a resource wall at your school to break the stigma around mental health.
Use NHS and WHO data to create a social media series debunking common teen nutrition myths.
Design disease-prevention posters for a local GP surgery covering flu jabs, hand hygiene, and STI awareness.
Target Year 7-9 students with assemblies and peer-led discussions about the risks of vaping and smoking.
Fundraise for menstrual products, educate on menstrual health, and lobby your school for free provisions.
Create a campaign for sixth formers using real A&E statistics and interactive quizzes about responsible drinking.
Run a summer-term skin cancer awareness campaign with UV wristband giveaways and dermatology facts.
Launch a school-wide 'screen-free hour' challenge with posters and social media tips for better exam-season sleep.
Explain antibiotic resistance and why you shouldn't demand antibiotics for colds through infographics and school talks.
Host an assembly, share real stories, and help classmates sign the organ donor register.
Partner with a local primary school to run interactive healthy eating workshops and cooking demonstrations.
Organise optometrist talks and promote the 20-20-20 rule with a school-wide digital wellness challenge.
Track intake, create infographics, and install a hydration station to promote water consumption at school.
Analyse NHS waiting time data across regions to identify postcode-lottery health inequalities.
Compare patient satisfaction and outcomes in telemedicine vs. in-person care post-COVID.
Design and analyse a survey on attitudes to mental health support at your school with statistical methods.
Use WHO/PHE datasets to analyse and visualise antibiotic resistance trends over the past decade.
Systematic review comparing AI diagnostic tools' accuracy against clinician diagnoses across specialties.
Build a simple prediction model using Python and publicly available NHS or WHO health data.
Investigate vaccination rates in your local area and correlate with socioeconomic deprivation indices.
Compare maternity outcomes across NHS trusts using publicly available hospital episode statistics.
Survey classmates on social media use and analyse its correlation with self-reported mental health.
Study the effectiveness of different hand hygiene interventions in schools using before/after surveys.
Analyse the link between air pollution levels and respiratory hospital admissions in your city using open data.
Review published trial demographics to investigate racial disparities in clinical trial participation.
Review case studies and interview affected students to research how long COVID impacts young people.
Build a website explaining common conditions like asthma, diabetes, and hypertension in accessible language.
Create an illustrated step-by-step CPR and first aid guide for schools or youth organisations.
Design infographics explaining how mRNA, viral vector, and traditional vaccines work.
Write a health literacy guide for non-English-speaking communities, translated with community help.
Develop a revision resource for Biology students covering human physiology with diagrams and practice questions.
Create a toolkit for sixth formers with CBT-based coping strategies and local support contacts.
Design a guide helping families understand what's really in their food by decoding nutrition labels.
Build an interactive anatomy quiz website for GCSE/A-Level Biology revision using free tools.
Create a children's book explaining what happens during a hospital visit to reduce anxiety in young patients.
Develop a resource addressing gaps in the school curriculum with NHS-verified sexual health information.
Write a guide for students on registering with a GP, accessing NHS services, and understanding their rights.
Create a podcast-style audio guide for visually impaired patients explaining common medication instructions.
Design a dementia-friendly communication guide for care home staff and visiting volunteers.
Interview junior doctors about their training, daily realities, and biggest surprises in medicine.
Profile different medical specialties — interview a surgeon, GP, psychiatrist, and pathologist.
Film video interviews with healthcare workers about ethical dilemmas they've navigated in real settings.
Write profiles of physiotherapists, paramedics, speech therapists, and midwives to explore the wider healthcare team.
Publish a weekly newsletter summarising one key healthcare news story with your own critical analysis.
Interview medical students at different stages to show how med school evolves from Year 1 to FY1.
Create a video series shadowing professionals in lesser-known roles like clinical psychologists.
Write opinion pieces on staffing crises, privatisation debates, or digital health records.
Interview patients (with consent) about their healthcare experiences and what made a doctor memorable.
Start a YouTube channel explaining one medical breakthrough per week in under 5 minutes.
Film structured debates on euthanasia, rationing, consent, and other hot-button medical ethics topics.
Write a comparative piece on healthcare systems — NHS vs. US, France, or Singapore models.
Volunteer regularly at a care home as an activities coordinator or conversation partner over 3+ months.
Apply through your local trust to volunteer on weekly shifts and experience the hospital environment.
Train as a first aider with St John Ambulance and volunteer at community events.
Support hospice patients through companionship, help with fundraising, or tend the gardens.
Work at Macmillan, Mind, or BHF charity shops — learn about their mission beyond retail.
Make weekly phone calls or visits to isolated elderly people through Age UK or local schemes.
Volunteer at a food bank and reflect on the links between food insecurity, nutrition, and health.
Help organise activities, sports days, or social events for a local disability charity.
Volunteer with Childline or Shout after completing their training programme.
Help run a community health screening event with blood pressure checks and health advice stalls.
Volunteer at a refugee support centre and reflect on healthcare access barriers for asylum seekers.
Join your local Parkrun as a volunteer marshal and observe the link between physical activity and wellbeing.
Volunteer at a substance misuse charity and learn about harm reduction approaches in your community.
Found or lead your school's medical society — organise talks, debates, and work experience prep sessions.
Organise a school health fair with interactive stalls on nutrition, exercise, mental health, and first aid.
Run peer mentoring sessions for Year 10-11 students interested in medicine with UCAS tips and motivation.
Campaign for better mental health support at school — draft a proposal, collect signatures, present to governors.
Organise a creative charity fundraiser — sponsored walks, talent shows, or awareness auctions.
Write a policy brief on a local health issue and present it to your MP, council, or school board.
Recruit and train classmates to promote healthy behaviours as youth health ambassadors.
Organise a TEDx-style talk event at your school on healthcare innovation and invite student speakers.
Research nutritional standards, survey students, and propose changes to school catering.
Start an initiative highlighting underrepresented voices in healthcare careers.
Help state school students access medicine application support through a structured mentoring scheme.
Lead a campaign for defibrillator installation in your school and train peers in basic life support.
Organise an inter-school medical ethics debate competition with structured rounds and judge panels.
Build a symptom-checker chatbot using basic AI/NLP techniques — even a simple decision-tree counts.
Create a health data visualisation dashboard using Python, R, or Tableau with NHS open data.
Design a mental health check-in app prototype in Figma with wireframes, user flows, and a mockup demo.
Develop a tool helping users decide between A&E, GP, pharmacy, or self-care based on symptoms.
Analyse health equity data and visualise disparities across UK regions with interactive charts.
Build a medication reminder or appointment tracker app using no-code tools like Glide or Adalo.
Create a machine learning model that predicts diabetes risk from lifestyle survey data.
Design a wearable health monitoring concept — sketch the product, define metrics, and create a pitch deck.
Build a website that maps local NHS services (GPs, walk-in centres, pharmacies) on an interactive map.
Prototype an accessibility tool for patients with hearing impairments to communicate symptoms to doctors.
Create a data pipeline that scrapes and visualises real-time flu surveillance data from PHE.
Design a gamified physiotherapy exercise app concept for young patients recovering from sports injuries.
Complete an EPQ on a topic like 'Should the UK legalise assisted dying?' or 'Is the NHS sustainable?'
Complete Yale's 'Introduction to Psychology' or a similar Coursera/edX course and write a reflection.
Write a reflective essay on consent, rationing, or AI diagnosis for your school magazine.
Read and review 'Do No Harm' by Henry Marsh and 'Being Mortal' by Atul Gawande.
Attend Gresham College, Royal Institution, or Wellcome Collection lectures and write reflective summaries.
Start a reading group — meet weekly to discuss a chapter of a medical book and debate implications.
Complete the BSMS Virtual Work Experience programme and write a reflective portfolio on each module.
Take Harvard's free 'Fundamentals of Neuroscience' course and create summary notes for classmates.
Contrast two medical memoirs and what they reveal about the experience of being a doctor.
Submit a research essay to the Royal Society of Biology essay competition or similar science writing contest.
Create an annotated bibliography of 10 key papers on a medical topic you're passionate about.
Attend a bioethics conference or medical humanities event and write up your key takeaways.
Complete a CREST Award (Bronze, Silver, or Gold) for an independent science investigation.
Shadow or interview both a GP and a hospital doctor, then compare their daily routines, challenges, and rewards.
Compare 5 surgical specialties — training pathways, lifestyle, day-to-day work, and career satisfaction.
Research career pathways for physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and radiography.
Compare career trajectories, pay, work conditions, and ethics in NHS vs private healthcare settings.
Explore careers in MSF, WHO, and tropical medicine — what it takes to work in global health.
Create a data visualisation showing training length, competition ratios, and salary for 15+ specialties.
Research how AI is transforming radiology and what it means for future diagnostic careers.
Compare training, daily work, and career paths across psychiatry, clinical psychology, and counselling.
Create a mini-documentary or video essay about careers in A&E — interview emergency medicine doctors.
Research paediatric medicine careers through shadowing, interviews, and academic reading.
Map out careers in epidemiology, health policy, and Public Health England — beyond clinical medicine.
Compare dentistry and medicine — training, lifestyle, earnings, and daily satisfaction.
Research nurse practitioner and physician associate roles — the expanding scope of non-doctor clinicians.
Explore careers in academic medicine, laboratory research, and clinical trials coordination.
Explore NHS management, clinical director roles, and healthcare leadership career pathways.
The most common mistake we see? Students chasing impressive-sounding projects instead of doing something they genuinely care about. Quality beats quantity every time. Two deeply reflective projects will always outperform six shallow ones. Focus on what you learned, how it changed your perspective, and what it revealed about the realities of medicine.
You don't need all of these — but the strongest applicants typically have a mix of the following:
Admissions tutors at competitive medical schools read thousands of personal statements every year. They can immediately spot generic projects done purely for the CV. What stands out is authenticity — a student who ran a small but impactful mental health awareness campaign and reflected deeply on it will always beat a student who lists 10 activities with no depth. Your projects are a chance to show who you are, not just what you've done.
The Future Doctors Fellowship pairs you with a Harvard mentor who helps you design, execute, and reflect on a meaningful pre-med project over 8 weeks.