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Updates about what I'm doing on a day to day basis and medical school life and things like that
Now I was checking that story this morning to see the questions that we got and the number of questions you guys sent is
Insane let me show you there's absolutely no way I'm gonna be able to answer all of these questions
There's just so many here and I'm really sorry
If I don't read yours, I promise I'll do my very best to get through as many as possible
Look at that. I want to be as fair as possible
So I'm gonna start with the questions that were sent in first and work my way up to the questions that were sent in last
And hopefully I answered your question
All right
two quick things before we start first smash like on this video and subscribe to my channel to you pour content from the in the
Future. Oh my god
I've become a proper youtube or have a knife and then the second thing let me address some of the most highly asked
Questions in my YouTube comments and Instagram DM so I can address those here and then answer other questions
In the rest of the video. So first of all, my name is Nasir karma or Nauset karma. Yes
I speak fluent Arabic and I am from Jordan
I was born in Vancouver Canada and then shortly after moved to Greece where I did my lower school middle school in high school
I then did my degree in immunology microbiology and biotechnology at the University of Toronto
And now I'm studying medicine at King's College London here in the United Kingdom
and the reason that I'm writing the USMLE step 1 exam is that I haven't decided where I want to spend the rest of my
Life working as a doctor
And so I'm writing this exam to keep my options open in case I decide I want to go to the US in the future
Okay, I think that cover is probably 80% of the questions that I get on a daily basis now
Let's get into the questions. You guys asked me on Instagram its medical school worth it
And is there a chance for a social life by the way? Love your vids? Thank you
So yes medical school is absolutely worth it
The first two years of theory based learning might not be as interesting as the clinical after that
but once you start clinical placement
You realize everything that you hoped medical school was is actually what it is and it's just everything you've been looking forward to talking to
Patients trying to learn about their management and their treatment, you know
It's actually so exciting to be able to talk to a patient and ask them any
Question in the world and they will tell you the answer they will offer that information to you
It's an absolute privilege and I'm so happy I chose medicine as my career path
I'm applying for med school, but I get faint with blood. Do you get desensitized to this an anonymous please? Okay
So yeah, absolutely. My uncle is a neonatal
Cardiothoracic surgeon and when he was younger, he used to faint at the sight of blood all the time
I fainted the first time I saw someone get an epidural injection and in my first year when we were in the cadaver lab
Dissecting some of the anatomical specimens. I think we had five students faint and pass out fall on the floor completely during one day
So yeah, absolutely. Don't take that as a sign that you can't do medicine. Oh, this is a good one
Which pet would you keep so in Toronto?
I had a period of about four or five months where I was living alone
And I got so damn bored that I actually bought a goldfish and I kid, you know
I would say good morning to the goldfish every single day and I would say hi when I came back from home, Dave
University it was like having my friend in the apartment
but honestly fish are kind of difficult to take care of cuz they require a lot of cleaning and maintenance so I probably wouldn't get
A fish again if I was gonna get a pet now
We would definitely be a reptile like a lizard or a snake
I just think they're so cool
But I don't have nearly enough space in my room or the time to commit to something like that
What do you think about the new iPad? It's basically the exact same as the old iPad
I see absolutely zero need to buy it and I definitely will not be buying it time for a haircut ever tried cutting your own
Hair yeah, I know. I definitely need a haircut but with the whole
Quarantine situation going on. I can't really get one and I'm definitely not cutting my own hair
What makes you want to be a youtuber? Yes. I'm a huge fan of your daily dose. Thank you so much YouTube
Honestly, I find it's an amazing creative outlet
I've been editing videos for a very long time way before YouTube
But just having the ability to share my videos with an audience and receive feedback and interact with you guys
It's just something I found so amazing
I think it's incredible that I have a platform where I can reach so many other students and the heartwarming
messages in my comments and in my Instagram DMS that I get on a daily basis is honestly what keeps me going the fact that
Anyone at all has found any use or value in my videos just honestly makes me over the moon
So when are you gonna do that called modern warfare?
Cuz you know soon comes in come how do you have a plan for everything in your life?
Honestly guys, I can't imagine doing just about anything without having a plan
I almost feel like I'm addicted to
Timekeeping and ensuring that I waste as little time as possible in every single activity that I do
I try and write down everything that I want to do
I allocate specific times and periods to what I need to do things and whenever I'm working or moving around the house or anything
I'm just trying to save time my low-key feel that I have an obsession with time and time saving and I'm gonna make a video
On that in the future who's a youtuber that you'd like to collab with one day? Alright great question. Great question Eve Cornwell
She is a lawyer working here in London, and she makes fantastically edited videos uses all the right music and dances and everything
I'm really really enjoying her content. I forgot about my tea
Okay, here's one in Arabic leche map. Dama. Dama Alana B
I'll feed your heart Akuma table attack min Palestine
Yeah, so basically what that means is why don't you translate your videos into Arabic? That's a great question
And now I've actually turned on my community collaborations more subtitles on my videos
So anyone of you watching this video right now?
I'll put a link in the description down below and you can go and help translate some of my videos to other languages
Question from Fredrik. Why didn't you go to med school when you were 18, so straight out of high school
I actually did apply to medical school here in the UK
I applied to Kings College London Imperial Edinburgh and Cambridge
I got rejected from the first three
But I got an interview at Cambridge and that really didn't go well because I had no idea what I was doing on top of
That I didn't prepare for the you count very well
And so I didn't get a good score there and none of these things helped me secure an offer
That's why I went to Canada to do my undergraduate degree
And when I was done with that, I reapplied to medical school and got in favorite place to study in London
I'm actually not a big fan of studying in like coffee shops and outdoor areas and things like that I much prefer
libraries and my favorite library to go to at the moment is the Mon library on the Strand campus of King's College London and
Recently, I checked out a couple of libraries in UCL, which were also really really nice. I'll definitely be going back there
How often did you fail an exam in medical school?
I've never failed an exam in medical or university or high school or anything like that
The lowest grade I ever got was in a physics module
I got 55 percent on one of the midterms which was absolutely soul-crushing, but I ended up finishing the class with an A
do you think the
Will settle in two or three months time big disclaimer. I'm absolutely no expert. This is just my personal opinion
personal opinion actually very sadly
I really think it won't I think it's gonna take at least a month before
everyone in every single country starts doing very strict stay-at-home measures and then after that
I think it's gonna take months of slowly reintroducing the population to going outside slowly opening shopping areas
And then eventually travel and even when we do that, we're gonna be monitoring the number of cases
They're gonna start spiking again left and right. So I really think that we're in this for quite some time
Favorite NBA memory bro. Are you seriously asking me this? It's obviously the Raptors winning the trip
How do you manage things like your girlfriend YouTube studying in college, don't you feel distraction sometimes?
Yes, obviously, I feel distracted and unmotivated just like everybody else
But honestly how I look at it is that there's certain things that I want to achieve in life. For example
Being a doctor getting good grades in university exercising having a YouTube channel having a girlfriend having friends in the social life
Whatever those things are. Those are the most important things in my life. And why would I sacrifice any of them?
I take each one of those things and I make a schedule for them and I allocate time to them and I plan for how
I'm gonna accomplish them and I just make it a non-negotiable thing in my head that those have to get done
What's your go-to breakfast honestly for the last like four or five years?
I've had pretty much the same breakfast every single day, which is - sunny-side up eggs on a piece of toast
How many siblings do you have? I have one twin she is a female and she lives right behind that wall
What's your favorite thing to do to relax honestly for me?
I really enjoy spending time with other people if I spend too much time alone, or I don't leave the house I go
Absolutely crazy, which is just not good for the current times that we're living in other than socialising with friends
I'm a very big fan of video games
I think playing games is a great way to sort of clear your mind and focus on something else get a little bit of rest
And relaxation in your day on average
How many hours do you study each day this honestly really varies depending on the time of the year
So for example now with all this free time that we have and me preparing for the USMLE step one
I'm studying about eight hours a day
However throughout the year if it's just like a normal week of attending placement and having a couple of lectures and stuff like that
I'll probably do somewhere between two to three hours a day. What are you currently binge watching?
I'm actually rewatching Breaking Bad with my sister because we're currently watching better. Call Saul and those two fit together very well
Have you ever dissected a cadaver in your medical school? If yes then what was your experience? So yeah King's College, London
We all are able to dissect the human cadaver. You share a human cadaver with about seven or eight other students
and yeah, it's honestly, it's it's an absolute privilege first and foremost and second of all, it's is just
amazing to be able to actually
cut into
And reveal all the different layers and insides of a real human body something that I think you really need to do with care you
really need to take your time with and you need to take in and understand and appreciate the
Gravity of what it is that you're doing in front of you
This is a real human body that came from a real person and they've decided to donate their body to science
It's an absolutely incredible experience
And if you have the chance to attend the Medical School where you can do the dissection yourself
I would highly highly recommend it. This is a good question. Why do you follow your medical lessons online?
Okay, so I don't attend any lectures in person and this comes with a huge caveat
That is the fact that we have all of our lectures recorded online so I can watch all my lectures both video and audio
Online from my home. When I attended the University of Toronto. This was not an option and I had a
100% attendance rate and the reason that I did that is because if he didn't go to lecture there was absolutely nowhere else to get
That information and so it was a non-negotiable fact of life that I had to attend my lectures here
However on King's College, London
everything is provided for me online and so I can take my time when I'm writing my notes and I can pause and I can
Play back and I can think about what it is that I'm absorbing from the lecture
Whereas when I'm sitting in the class listening to the professor speak
There's obviously going to be a lag period between them talking and me writing down and I found that I spend way too much time
Focusing on writing my notes as opposed to listening and understanding the information that's coming in when I sit at home on my computer
I can actually do a lot more of that understanding and it's a much more efficient process for me
Which College were you in at U of T? And how did you like U of T? Which program were you in? Okay
So I was at new college. I was living in 40 Wilcox
I had one of the rooms overlooking that direct street above the entrance and I was doing a double major in biotechnology and
Microbiology and a minor in immunology. How did I find the school? Honestly it is huge
It's absolutely massive the class sizes of some of the biggest classes in first years upwards of 2,000 students
It's like it's ridiculously big which leads to a very big campus with lots of facilities and libraries and activities and things like that
Which is all great. However, the program itself I found very difficult
There is a lot of cutthroat studying and intense work that you have to do in order to keep up at U of T
It's a very difficult school. My go-to coffee order when I'm out and about moving around throughout the day
It's definitely a flat white if I'm sitting down on my desk here or to study in the library
It's just a black Americano resources for Sept one. I just filmed the video about that
So hopefully it's already up on the channel and I'll leave a link in description down below if you have to go on holiday anywhere
Where would it be? I would honestly really like to go to Asia. I want to go to Vietnam, Japan China Thailand
I
Really really want to explore those cultures because they're just so different than my culture and I just want to go and roam around in
The jungle and in the busy cities talk to people there. I would really love to go
Let me have that orange dog for a fiver, please. Oh
Thanks for the reminder, how can you deal with stress when it comes to exams honestly about 99% of the time before an exam?
I feel almost
zero stress as close to no stress as I possibly can be and the reason that I feel that way is because I start preparing
for the exam early and I do lots of reading lots of studying lots of practice questions and everything that I can possibly do to
Put myself in a good position to do well on that exam
So when it comes to writing the exam whether I perform well or not
I know that I've done the very best that I can't put myself in the position to perform as best as possible
Okay. So the next question is about clinical placement. Yeah, come in. Hey, man, what's up?
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Yeah, what else?
comment and
Cool, and don't forget - oh cool, man. Thanks
See you later
So much of coffee, aren't you resistant to caffeine yet? How does it work for you? Good question
So if you guys watch my channel at all
You'll know that I drink a lot of coffee pretty much throughout the whole day from when I wake up until about 7 p.m
And then I'd stop before I go to sleep now if I'm absolutely honest with you guys
I do not feel the effects of caffeine at all
I drink coffee because I love the smell and I love the idea of having something in my hand something to drink during my long
Studying periods. However, I can easily drink a coffee and go straight to sleep or I can drink coffee at 10 p.m. 11 p.m
If I need to stay up and study and I can go to sleep right after just fine
So I'm pretty sure caffeine has almost no effect on me
but I still drink it because I love the taste and I love the experience of coffee as a whole are you going to make
any karma medic merchandise
You should have a meet and greet in London when this is all over yeah, that's actually a really really good idea
It's something that I was building up towards actually doing now in the summer, but then obviously everything that's happened has happened
But I definitely will when this is all over tips for making a youtube channel
I just made a whole video about how I make videos for YouTube
I'll leave it linked up over here on the page no over here somewhere
God, damn it one of these corners, honestly
My main tip for making videos is you just need to be consistent and produce high quality
Videos for a long period of time at the beginning a lot of people have the same complaints which is nobody's watching my video
No-one's interacting with them and I know I know that
Struggle and that's how it's always gonna be at the beginning
You have to consistently produce good quality content for a period of time and slowly slowly growth will come
What do you do when you're in a bad mood? That's a good question
But for me, honestly
Napping or sleeping fixes pretty much 99% of my mood problems whenever I'm in a bad mood or I'm angry or I'm frustrated
I just take a 10 to 20 minute nap
And then when I wake up, I feel completely refreshed and I can move on with my day
Do you feel like you neglect yourself sometimes because of medical school?
obviously, there's periods of high intensity and high pressure especially leading up to an exam where you know,
You drop everything in your life and you just focus on your medical school learning and exams and whatever, but generally speaking
throughout the year
I really place a high emphasis on my own happiness and my own
Just general well-being if I don't exercise and go to the gym if I don't see friends
and if I don't do the things that I actually
Enjoy like making these youtube videos then I'm not going to be a good doctor
I'm not going to learn my material well, and I'm not gonna enjoy my life while I'm studying
I find it very important to have a balance between my happiness in my life doing things that I actually enjoy and also
Studying for medical school because there's no point in having one without the other
So yeah
That would be my advice just try and incorporate a little bit more of me time personal time you time
Whatever you want to call it into your week. It doesn't have to be something you do every day
And if you're really really busy just find somewhere to do something that makes you happy
What's the best bad decision you've made when I was in?
university one of my side hustles was buying and selling very rare limited addition exotic spinners like
You know those things that kids would spin in their hands
So yeah, there were these private Facebook groups that sold very very expensive versions of those. I ended up buying a spinner for
1500 Canadian dollars and I had accumulated that money from buying and selling other spinners and that were like less rare and less exotic and
Limited so I took all the money I had made from that side hustle and I bought this one spinner for one thousand five hundred
Canadian dollars, which is objectively a bad idea with way too much risk
But thankfully everything worked out and I ended up something it for over 4,000 Canadian dollars only one week later
Have you thought about possibly starting a podcast? Yes, absolutely
this is one of the things at the top of my
Wish list of things to do if I had just a little bit more free time
I would definitely like start a podcast and I'm definitely looking into it. How many m'aimes are in that jar. There are
291 or 292? I don't remember but somebody already one. I sent them a letter in the mail. They received it. They're very happy
So yeah, you guys can stop commenting. How many Eminem's are in the jar. Do you write journals? And do you contemplate life?
No to both of those questions, but it's something that I definitely want to improve on
It's actually on my list of New Year's resolutions for 2020. I want to learn to be a more reflective person
I want to think about the decisions that I make and the actions that I do and just
Sort of take a little bit of time to think about life generally
I find that
I'm very very focused on moving from one activity to the next that I don't take enough time to do things like that again
I'm actually reaching the top of that list that I scrolled to off. I reached the top I made it
I actually made it to the very end. I'm happy I did that. I really wanted to get through all of your questions
So I've made it. Okay, that is it that is enough questions answered for this
150k Q&A. I know I say this every time but I genuinely cannot believe it that we've reached this milestone like
150,000 people is just
Ridiculous. It's absolutely insane. It's insane. It's the same. It's the same
You can't even think about putting a hundred fifty thousand people in one big place
It's a big big number and to finish. I just want to say a big. Thank you
honestly from the bottom of my heart for
Continuing to support all of the videos that I put out making YouTube videos is something that I really enjoy doing in my spare time
And I love hearing your feedback your comments and getting all kinds of wonderful messages from you
so
Please do continue to communicate with me by leaving me comments down below engaging with these videos by liking and subscribing
And all the rest of it and anyways guys
I'm gonna keep making videos as long as I'm enjoying it
And as long as you're enjoying them and who knows maybe in a couple months
We'll be at another milestone making another Q&A video. Anyways, thank you so much for your time
Thank you for watching this video and I will see you in the next one face
And last question just because it's from Rachel do you like sharks the I guess sharks are cool. I don't really differentiate between them
I remember when I was a kid
I really thought hammerhead sharks were cool just because they were flat and I imagined them going like this