Hi everyone!
It's my day off.
It's Saturday I'm just starting the day by going to the gym but it's super cold.
But here I am at the gym.
I'm so white!
I'm here at Lowe's.
I'm working on a secret project today so I came here to get some supplies.
A medium box is what I'm getting.
So I'm back from the gym and from Lowe's from getting all the supplies.
So the secret project that I'm making is: I'm making a light box today.
So it's like a do it yourself kinda thing.
I thought it might be a fun little thing to make at home so I can try to take better pictures
for Instagram and other things.
So I have all the supplies here.
I have this white paper roll, some wax paper, and this box that I bought and that's pretty
much all I need to make the light box, so let's get started!
Candy come!
So I'm about half-way done with my light-box.
All the cutting actually reminded me a little bit of surgery.
So that's really fun.
So next, I'm gonna cover the wholes with wax paper that I cut out here, like this!
Alright guys, check out the finished product.
It's like a legit--it looks like a legit light box.
So it's basically a box with three sides cut out and those sides that are cut out are covered
with wax paper or tracing paper and then you just line the inside with a white piece of
paper like that!
And if you go in, it's like a legit background.
So cool!
So if you guys are wondering where I got the idea for this light box, I got it from this
website called skillshare.com.
It's actually like an online learning community where there's tons of videos on design, art,
photography and even like website designing and things like that.
A lot of you guys ask me all the time how I edit videos and how I shoot all the youtube
videos and they have tons on film-making and editing and all that.
I think they can probably explain it much better than I ever can so definitely check
out their videos.
So if you guys wanna try out the website, the link that I'm gonna put below is gonna
give you two months of free unlimited access to all the learning videos but if you do want
a premium membership after that it's gonna be about $10 a month for unlimited ad-free
learning experience.
So you do need a credit card to sign up but you can cancel anytime and it will be free
for the first two months.
Like I mentioned in the last video, I'm gonna talk a little bit about my fourth year schedule.
So I just did my fourth year schedule a couple weeks ago.
It was done by lottery system similar to how my third year schedule was done.
I got a pretty decent number I got almost everything I wanted at the time that I wanted
it and I told you guys that I was considering both surgery and emergency medicine.
I made my fourth year schedule kinda geared around emergency medicine just because there
are some requirements for emergency medicine that I have to take into consideration that
I don't really have to for surgery.
For example, doing away rotation is really important for emergency medicine cause you
need a special letter not just from you home institution but from another institution for
emergency medicine.
So, my schedule is... so every block is about one month long and we have eleven blocks total.
Blocks 1 and 2, I'm gonna be doing two away rotations, I don't know where exactly yet.
Block 3--I'm gonna take off to study for my Step 2 and Block 4 I'm gonna be doing Medical
ICU Rotation.
Block 5 I have currently dermatology elective.
Block 6 I have a course called... it's like a radiology course but you don't really have
to come in to school as much because block 5 and 6 is the time when a lot of people start
to get interviews.
So the course partially takes place online so that you can stay home and go to your interviews
or travel or whatever that you need to do during that time.
So it's sort of like an online radiology course.
After block 6, it's winter break.
Block 7 starts out with addictive disorders and that's a lot of different seminars and
it's kinda cool how the course is set up because you go from hospital settings to out-patient
setting to group meetings.
I really like how the class is structured so that's what I'm doing.
Block 8 I have nothing so far so that might end up becoming a vacation month.
Block 9 I have two weeks of intensive emergency medicine preparation course for residency.
Obviously that might change if I decided to go into surgery.
Block 10 I have my sub-internship under medicine and Block 11 is also empty for now.
You guys can probably tell that I have a lot of like empty weeks and that's because of
4th year and once you're done with all your requirements, it's a time when a lot of people
end up traveling, taking vacations, and spending time with their family and friends before
starting residency year.
So I'm gonna end up having probably at least 6 to 7 weeks of free time and I haven't really
decided what I'm gonna do during those weeks just yet.
They say 4th year of med school is like the promised land of med school cause you have
a ton of free time and you can do whatever you want with that time.
A lot of people choose to get married or have babies and things like that.
So fourth year is great!
I heard it's awesome after interviews and I'm really, really looking forward my forth
year.
So it's Saturday and I haven't had a Saturday off in a few months.
No, that's a lie, in a few weeks.
I had to work this past two Saturdays but today I have off.
That's because I have a long call tomorrow on Sunday.
I'll be working from 8am to 8pm.
So for today, it's like a nice free Saturday.
I'm super happy that I did all the things that I normally like to do like going to the
gym, eating and doing little fun projects and things like that.
But I still do have a lot of work to do.
I have to write an H&P.
At my school's medicine rotation they require us to write 8 H&Ps total and it's kind of...
it takes me long time because they really want it to be thorough and they really want
you to go into like very in depth differential diagnoses for all the symptoms.
So I'm gonna work on that for this week.
I'm also gonna write a thank you card for my resident who's gonna be going to another
rotation, so tomorrow is gonna be his last day, and he was really good to me and another
student.
So we're gonna write him a nice thank-you card.
And I think that's probably what I'm gonna do for the rest of the night.
So I'm just taking a quick break.
Writing my H&P, like I said takes me a long time.
What happens is when I write it, I realize that I'm missing a lot of information from
the patient so I like to write it first pass and then go back and talk to the patient again
and fill in some of the missing information.
So I'm most likely gonna do that tomorrow or Monday or whenever I see the patient next.
So I'm gonna end the vlog here.
Thank you guys so much for watching.
Don't forget to check out skillshare.com and let me know if you like the videos and I will
see you guys in the next video! Byeee!