The slides for my PSP3 oral presentation.

1. PSP3 ORAL PRESENTATION 2023
By Tom Duncan

2. THE ORGANISATION – CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
HOSPITALS
• Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH)
is a family of hospitals in Cambridge.
• CUH run a variety of different
volunteering programmes aimed at
different age groups.
• I worked as a volunteer in the Young
Person’s Programme (YPP), a
programme which helps young
people gain great experience of
working in a clinical setting such as a
hospital.

3. MY ROLES AS A VOLUNTEER
• I volunteered on the diabetes and endocrinology
wards, where patients would often be quite frail and
confined to their beds.
• My role as a volunteer would be to engage with the
patients, as they may have been feeling lonely, anxious,
or isolated due to their situation.
• These kinds of interactions can be really important to
the patients, and genuinely make a real difference in
their day.

4. SKILLS I LEARNT FROM THIS WORK EXPERIENCE
Communication
• Interacting and engaging with patients improved my ability to communicate with new people.
• I learnt how to communicate with people who are in a vulnerable situation.
Teamwork:
• On the wards I would work in a team of three people, and we would have to work together to
coordinate our time so that we could get round to every patient.
Maturity:
• Going in as a student, I still viewed myself as still a little immature, but working in a hospital
environment and seeing real people suffering from real problems really helped me mature.
Self-confidence:
• Improving my self-confidence was crucial to being able to engage with patients.

5. HOW THESE SKILLS HELPED ME/WILL HELP ME
• Communication – future career working in healthcare and working with patients.
• Teamwork – other jobs, for example working in the housekeeping team at the University of
Cambridge.
• Maturity – coming to university and living independently was made easier by the maturity I
developed in this job.
• Self-confidence – developing and improving my self-confidence has helped me in lots of
ways, particularly in interviews and in presentations.

6. THANKS FOR
LISTENING!