Stakeholder toolkit

What is Your Med Future?

Your Med Future is an information hub designed to support people from all backgrounds in exploring a future career in medicine. It brings together clear, reliable, and accessible information to help pupils, educators, parents, and career changers navigate their pathway into medicine.

Key messages:

• Your Med Future is a source of high-quality information related to all aspects of the medical school application journey in Scotland.
• The hub provides information and advice to individual applicants and those supporting them in career decision-making.
• The site is designed to help anyone in Scotland who is considering becoming a doctor. It provides easy access to key information to inspire and support their career decisions.

In short, Your Med Future provides a single, trusted resource for every aspiring medical student in Scotland.

The team behind Your Med Future

The NHS Scotland Youth Academy Team has developed your Med Future as part of the Enhancing Medical Attraction Programme. We are part of NHS Education for Scotland (NES) and work closely with the following:

• The Director of Medical Education for Scotland
• Our Medical Directorate and colleagues who deliver education and training for future doctors  

Our shared ambition is to attract a pool of diverse, talented graduates with the potential to become our future doctors in Scotland and to support them to feel informed and confident in navigating the selection processes for medical schools.

Help people to make informed career decisions

How to get involved:

• Use one of our suggested social media posts.
• Add our sample web copy to the appropriate section of your organisation’s website and include the Your Med Future web link - https://www.yourmedfuture.nhs.scot
• Add a link to the hub in any appropriate sections of your organisation's website.
• Include our news article in a blog post, regular newsletters or staff Microsoft Teams channel that would reach our shared audiences.

In addition, if you are an educator, you may be able to support with:

• Distributing our web copy for parents and carers, using relevant communication channels, for example, Groupcall or other similar bulletins.

Finally, for organisations involved in careers outreach delivery:

• Please do, where possible, offer young people and parents a short demo of the site during your programmes

If you have any questions or ideas for how we might collaborate, please contact the EMA team at nes.yourmedfuture@nhs.scot.

Developing Your Med Future

This is just the beginning. We are committed to continually improving Your Med Future, and your feedback is vital. We'll use insights from ongoing research to develop new resources that best support our audience, including partners and medical school applicants.

We’d like to thank you for your support in promoting Your Med Future.