Hello Everyone!
Welcome back to vlogmas.
Today I took my shelf exam which means winter break has officially started for me.
Yay!
Just wanna thank you guys all for your encouring messages and wishing me good luck on social
media like Instagram, Youtube and everywhere else!
Thank you guys so much!
I'm really happy to be done and I'm really happy that winter break has finally started.
After taking the shelf today, I was actually invited to speak to a group of very motivated
high school students who are thinking about going into the healthcare field and it was
really great to speak to everyone about my experience, answer some questions and talk
about what motivates me and what questions they have about the future and it was a really
great time.
So thank you everyone for inviting me!
After the q&a session we attempted to do a mannequin challenge, so I'll show you guys
that right now.
So thank you guys again for inviting me to speak to you guys, I had a really great time.
So speaking of winter break, I know that a lot of you guys are done with finals and have
officially started winter break as well.
Right now is a great time for you guys to start looking for research positions for next
summer if that's what you guys are interested in doing.
Today actually during the high school q&a meeting session, somebody asked about this,
and I said that when I was looking for research positions, I actually cold e-mailed a lot
of the professors at my college but there is a great resource you guys can use and let
me show you guys.
So this is the list compiled by RIT as you guys can read.
It's the Biomedical Research and Pre-medical studies.
There's everything from American Heart Association to different universities and colleges like
Boston University, Case Western University, Columbia University and all these organizations
Hepatitis B Foundations, these are all the different positions that you guys can apply
for, and if you guys read on top, added bonus all opportunities are paid unless otherwise
indicated.
So if you guys need to be working and need to be making a little bit of money over the
summer a lot of these are paid positions so that's great as well.
This is another great resource if you are a pre-med student.
I know it's a little bit dated, it's from 2012 and 2013 but it has a ton of relevant
information such as MCAT, research, volunteering, clinical experience, how to work on your AMCAS,
what does research mean, does it support my application, how to go through the md phd
pathway and how to prep for interviews and things like that so there is a ton of really
great information here so I will link both of these websites in the description box below
for your information.
So these are some of the resources you guys can use and can look thru during winter break
but make sure you guys get plenty of rest, and spend some time with your friends and
family and really get ready for the next semester that's what really counts, that's what's really
important.
Hi.
Come!
Come here!
So I'm gonna go out and get some dinner and really celebrate being done with half of third
year which is crazy.
The last 6 months or so went by really really fast.
So I will see you guys at the restaurant.
That was a really good meal.
It's really cold outside.
It's like 25 degrees Fahrenheit but real feel like 18 degrees, that's like negative 8 degrees
celsius.
So it's super cold.
But a nice hot bowl of soup is just what I needed.
See you guys back home.
Hey guys so I'm back from the restaurant.
Last week I asked the people on snapchat to submit questions and I got a lot of video
questions sent to me so I'm gonna try to answer some of them.
Question: Hi Jamie!
Thanks a lot for the videos you post.
I really watch them and I love them so much.
It encourages me and you're my inspiration.
Thanks
Aww!
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for watching and I get a lot of inspiration from you guys as well.
Question: Hi Jamie!
Love your videos.
I love vlogmas so much.
I just have a question.
What is your most memorable memory from medical school until now?
Thank you!
Hi Sevina!
So my most memorable moment from med school is probably delivering my fist baby during
my ob-gyn rotation and also during ob-gyn when my attending asked me to close a layer
during surgery--that was pretty memorable as well.
That was really fun!
Alright next question.
Question: Hi Jamie!
I just wanted to ask if you can discuss some of the paraphernalia you use to make coffee
and tea.
This is a great question!
I'm actually gonna make a video on my coffee and tea paraphernalia.
I do have to say most of my coffee stuff is from my parents because they're actually really
big coffee fans so a lot of them are hand my downs from my parents.
But stay tuned for that video!
It's coming.
Question: Hi Jamie!
It's Manuela here and my question is how hard exactly is medical school?
Oo so I get this question a lot about how hard medical school is but I think it's probably
as hard as anything else in life really.
On a bad day it can be as hard as 10/10 and on a good day it's not hard at all and you
really enjoy yourself and it's like a 0/10 in terms of hardness.
So you just get used to the level of difficulty that med school kinda throws at you and you
just enjoy the ride.
So I wouldn't think too much about how medical school is so hard and I don't wanna do it.
If this is your passion, I would definitely just pursue it.
Question: Hi Jamie!
So a lot of pre-med undergrad pursue research in order to build up their resume for medical
school admissions.
I was wondering whether that was something that you did.
Thank you!
Answer: Yes I did!
I did research in college as well as after college for a few years.
My research was in developmental neurobiology so I studied infants and how they learn when
they sleep because infants spend a lot of their time sleeping so I looked at their learning
abilities as a new born and then I correlated that to some of their cognitive abilities
as a 9 month old and a 15 month old.
So I'm gonna stop with the questions here but I'm gonna continue to answer more of your
questions throughout vlogmas so definitely stay tuned for those questions later.
So next I wanna talk about some of the items from my store that I didn't show from my previous
vlogs.
One of the items is a trio of pocket notebooks and these are perfectly sized for your white-coat
pockets and it comes in three different design.
One of them is a tropical flamingo and flowers, the other one has leaves, I think banana leaves
or some type of tropical leaves and the other one has bananas on them.
So I'm personally going to use banana ones to write down all my workouts for winter break.
I'm thinking about starting a slightly more intense workout routine for winter break since
I'll have a lot of time so I'm gonna use the banana notebook to keep track of all my workouts
and the other two I'm gonna save for my surgery rotations and medicine rotation because I
think these will be great to have in my pocket and write down all the things throughout the
day in the hospital.
Plus they're super cute so I like to have them peaking from my pocket.
So next item is this pineapple notebook.
These are actually in really limited quantities so if you guys want one you guys should probably
order one really soon.
I just love the design of the pineapples in the front and the back.
I love the way they're illustrated and I like that it's pink and pretty you can use it for
journaling, diary.
I use it as a dedicated notebook for my research project when I was doing my summer research
so you can just pick a project and dedicate a notebook to it and you can write everything
that's related to that project in this notebook.
Otherwise you can use it for whatever.
It has a string bookmark attached to it so it's a very versatile notebook that you guys
can keep around with you and plus it looks really nice.
So some of the other items that are available at the shop, I've already talked about them
in a previous vlog, I have the desk to-do list, the desk weekly pad and the multipens.
And the multipens have been great for studying the past few weeks when I was studying for
my family medicine shelf so I do highly recommend them so all these items are available online
at www.thestrivetofit.com/shop and you guys can go visit the shop and while you're there
you guys can read some of my blog entries there as well.
So I'm going to end the vlog now.
I'm so excited that winter break is finally here.
I can't remember the last time I had two weeks off straight.
I think it was last year around this time.
So I'm super excited and I can't wait to make all the fun videos for you guys for the remaining
vlogmas and I will see you guys in tomorrow's video!
Bye!
Peace!