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My niece has just started uni and recently received her hospital placement.
She is commuting every day to uni as she can't afford to live away from home.
When she was interviewed at the uni they said her placement would be nearby. Its over an hour away from the uni and on top of her normal commute would mean a 3 hr journey each way.
The trains don't start early enough for her to get to the hospital.
Her uni has said that's your placement and that's that. No help at all.
Is there a higher person to moan to, as it looks like her education could be over due to someone not really thinking it through.
No idea on midwives but medical students largely same - just have to get on with it. That said they used to give you accommodation on site mon-fri if you were too far to travel each day.
Yep.. just have to put up with it.. My daughter is at Lancaster and had a three hour each way daily journey to her placement.
Why the hell unis offer courses requiring placements in cities where placements dont exist does seem rather lacking in intelligence.
Unfortunately, what jet26 said is about right.
Best bet would be to try and find local accommodation preferably through the healthcare trust if possible. It's not the sort of thing to quit over though, Mrs mW was at Uni in Oxford and had one placement in the east end of London, one in central London and another in Bath.
Properly supervising a student is a fairly big undertaking for the staff involved, and given how stretched most trusts are at the moment I imagine many will have reduced their student intake so options will be limited, moaning will be unlikely to get you very far.
I was chatting to the trainee midwife while baby29er was being delivered 6 weeks ago, she was just finishing training and was a bit up in the air with job offers/lack of. One hospital had offered her a job but with Zero! hours. Thats not a job is it really? just hanging on for a call 24/7 and end up getting one or two shifts maybe, how on earth could she live on that?
She was holding out and hoping for a role in the hospital we were in which sound like it was a possibility according to the head midwife which we had leading everything. both did a great job, really grateful for them,
I hope your niece has some luck, great job. now there's job satisfaction!
Have a friend who's wife went through much the same with her junior doctor placement - lives near Portsmouth; had a selection of three places and got none of them - ended up with a placement in Cumbria! Mate went through many representations to get it changed, even visited own MP but still had no joy.
Its stupid, these are adults who are paying for an education. Yet they are treated like naughty school kids.
She was notified by email the night before that she had to go to the bad end of London. Surely the Unis must know weeks if not months before who goes where. If she hadn't seen the email she wouldn't have gone.
Total shambles.
An yes zeo hour contracts - the latest NHS brainwave...
The problem is, wards/delivery suite don't want to be over run with students, maybe 2 at a time max, but unis are looking for placements for hundreds of students at the same time. Mine were spread all over yorkshire and most started at 0645. Best bet is to ask around other students and see if anyone can/will swap?