 My summer scholarship this year was about how healthcare enables the before-school check completion. The before-school check in New Zealand is the last check of eight well-child care checks and so what we wanted to see was how our health care providers and how mum's relationship with the health care system is helping our Kiwi kids to be attending their before-school checks. The purpose of the before-school check in New Zealand is that it's carried out at four and a half years of age and it's a very comprehensive behavioural and physical check that ideally will pull out any issues that Kiwi kids have and will refer them to appropriate services so that kids are able to maximise their education because they are ideally being sent into schools as healthy young children. I am a third-year medical student and what has always attracted me to medicine really was I love kids, I've always had an interest in pediatrics. Cameron Grant has been supervising this project and this particular summer scholarship really interested me as it enabled me to explore this passion of mine. It was really wonderful working with Jess. We're very, very lucky that the students who come to these summer student ships are very talented young people and already have some great skills but also always willing to learn. Cameron has really helped me to see what research is about and the importance of I guess a team and being collaborative I took part in staff meetings, watched how the team interacted with one another and how they reported back to the supervisor. That was just the most important part of the project for me was seeing those team dynamics and how they play out in research. Growing up in New Zealand has a really robust database so from the Ministry of Health we obtained data on which kids from the Growing Up New Zealand cohort had had the before-school check completed and from there we found that 7% of kids weren't getting this before-school check and what we were interested in is how healthcare had contributed to those 7% of kids not receiving the before-school check. She was very capable of getting a head around the processes involved in the project but also we had some really interesting discussions around what we were finding and what factors we thought might or might not be important. It's great being able to have those conversations with young people and getting a sense that they get it but they understand that there's some real challenges to delivering healthcare in the country and that they can make a contribution to that. What we found was significant, there were multiple factors but what was really interesting was that Māori and Pacific mothers and mothers who were students, their kids were around half as likely to receive a complete before-school check and so later in this year when the Ministry of Health reviews this check that will be a really key piece of information that they will be able to use to improve service delivery among other factors to just really hope that those children are able to receive this check.