We Are Warwick WHAM

Warwick WHAM is a student led outreaching group dedicated to widening participation in healthcare and medicine.

About Warwick WHAM

Warwick WHAM is a student led outreach society dedicated to widening participation in healthcare and medicine. We run a thriving mentor scheme pairing people interested in applying to GEM with medical students with similar backgrounds and experiences. We also run online information events designed to open the door to medicine and remove the barrier for people interested in a career in medicine. Alongside our mentoring scheme we are running events around graduate entry medicine, medical entrance exams, financing medicine, life as a WP student.

We are also piloting a new scheme opening the door into foundation applications and pathways beyond medical school.

What is Widening Participation?

We take a lifecycle approach to Widening Participation, meaning that as well as working to widen access to medicine for groups who are currently under-represented in medicine, importantly we try our best to support students all the way through medical school, to thrive in their studies and onto their future careers.

People we support

Those living in a geographical area with low levels of progression onto higher education.
From a low income household
An asylum seeker or refugee
First Generation To Higher Education: From a family where both parents or carers have not been to University
Be in receipt of free school meals
Are a young carer
Estranged from your parents or guardians
Are a looked after child
From BAME backgrounds
Have a Disability
A member of the LGBTQ+ community

Doctors should represent the patients they treat, which is why everyone should have access to medical school

Meet Our Committee