Medical Students Wellbeing Placement

Each year we offer a placement to medical students in their 2nd and 3rd years at Bristol university. These aim to help them step back from the rigours of their course, and to explore what it means to be well (as opposed to being ill, and needing medical attention/care), and to remember the values, activities, and connections that support them now and will help them be good doctors in the future.

The placement includes a residential away from Bristol, and then a series of Bristol-based workshops on a range of subjects, some creative, some based in nature, and others focusing on the body. All are designed by experts in their field, and aim to be both clinically relevant and personally enriching.

Students who have embarked on this placement previously have found the experience "just what I needed after such an intense period", "creative and nourishing", "the perfect way to reconnect.”