For some medical students, it is necessary to undertake part-time work alongside their medical studies. Graduate students on 5-year courses, who do not receive NHS bursaries like their peers on graduate-entry courses, and students from low-income families may be in this group. The looming rise in tuition fees to £9000 per year may increase the number of students needing to work. While traditional student jobs such as bar and retail work are also open to medical students, healthcare-related jobs may be more beneficial. Healthcare assistant jobs are popular among medical students and a call has been made by Louden and Nickerson for GPs to employ students as phlebotomists.1 Here I present another option: medical records summarising.
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