It is Sunday night and I'm getting ready for two weeks of what they're calling emergency
medicine bootcamp--which is basically going to be a bunch of small groups and little workshops
and clinics to get us ready for residency which will be starting in a few months.
Crazy I know!
So I will be pretty much at the hospital from 9 to 5 or 9 to 4 or hopefully earlier 9 to
3 or 9 to 2... hopefully.
Usually on a Sunday night to get ready for hospital or work, I do a few things: one of
the things I do is plan out what I'm gonna eat for the week.
So I had wanted to meal prep and I didn't really get a chance to do it.
I basically planned out my meals for tomorrow using things that I already have more or less
ready.
I also made more of my veggie soup that I talked about in my Instagram Story a couple
weeks ago.
I got a lot of question about how to make it... somebody asked me if I can put it up
on YouTube so that they can refer back to it if they need to.
There are some baby carrots, one apple, one tomato, a stalk of broccoli, one onion and
this is about a quarter of cabbage in addition to this, I'm gonna add a little bit of water
and everything is gonna go into this pressure pot.
And you let it cook like this for about 10 to 15 minutes and that's it!
Take a look!
It looks like this and most of the vegetables are gonna be really mushy at this point.
Everything just kinda falls apart and what I do with all these great veggies is I blend
it up with an emersion blender.
You blend like this... and this is the final product.
So just as a little background to this soup, I learned this recipe from my mom.
In Korean my mom calls it 해독 주스 which roughly means detox juice.
I think it's a nice great vegetable soup.
I usually have it for breakfast every morning.
I just wanna point out that I would never do this hair in residency.
I don't think that I can could have ever done it as a third year medical student either
because I'm just not really the person to spend a ton of time doing my hair BECAUSE
1.
I'm not really good at it and 2.
I would rather spend that time sleeping or planning out my food or something.
It's really nice that I can kinda experiment with these things as a fourth year because
I do have a lot more time but I think that I'm probably gonna grow this hair out for
residency.
But it's really fun while it's lasting.
GOODNIGHT!
Ehhh!
Good morning everyone.
Running really late.
Just drinking my soup and heading out.
Alright see you guys later!
So today we learned about sign offs.
Basically when you're done with your shift, you're supposed to give all the information
about your patients that are active to the next person that's coming on to cover for
you.
There's a lot of communication in medicine, I feel like.
Most of medical school--3rd year and 4th year is learning how to gather information and
learning how to pass on that information to other people who are working with you.
This sign out process is a similar thing where you have to be efficient but you also have
to give all the relevant information so that if something happens, the next person that
came on to cover for you knows what to do.
We learned a little bit about that.
We did some exercises and now I'm home.
So if you guys remember from the last episode, I'm doing a book challenge with my boyfriend.
We're picking out one fiction book and one non-fiction book and reading it.
I have started a book called Bellevue.
It's about the Bellevue hospital.
So I'm gonna read some of that today.
Good morning everyone!
It is Tuesday.
Today is gonna be a similar day to yesterday where we have some lectures, some workshops,
I have to lead a case today in the afternoon and I'm gonna be leading a case about infant
vomiting and I'm gonna be presenting it like you might do it in a morning report or something
where you give the chief complaint and people ask you questions and you give more information
about the case and then you solve the case together.
That's what I'll be doing and EM is the most awesome specialty ever because they told us
that we can wear scrubs.
Everyone else has to wear business casual.
So...
"See how I didn't cut your finger off."
"Should I have my elbow bent?"
"We're starting up here so.. it actually gets really tiring.
You'll see" "I know what I'll get you next Chrismas"
"Yes a roll of this!"
(Laughter)
"You will end up with some folds around the elbow.
You just don't have sharp things jabbing in to the patient and you'll want to have used
plenty of padding there first"
"Good thing we used that extra piece there"
"Thank you!"
Today is Thursday and I realized yesterday I talked about doing simulation cases at school
and I don't think that I really explained what that was.
Simulation is relatively new way of learning where you have these high fidelity mannequins.
These mannequins they're like thousands of dollars.
They blink, they have a pulse, you can do a ton of things with them, usually they're
hooked up to a computer so you can talk to it, and somebody in the control room can talk
back as a patient.
You can hook them up to a monitor.
You can check their vitals and depending on the model, there's a lot more things you can
do.
Some of them have IV access, some of them have abdominal stuff that's going on.
So simulation is one of the many ways that a lot of students learn how to deal with a
real patient.
They try to make it as real as possible.
And it's used especially a lot in the emergency medicine.
I guess just because of the sort of the un-predictive nature of Emergency Medicine.
You always walk in, you kind off never know what you're gonna see.
So they like to kind of prepare you for situations so you do a lot of different cases.
During these simulation cases, there is different roles.
So there are six of us, there is a team leader, there is an airway person, there is a primary
survey/physical exam person, there is a person who hooks the patient to the monitor and does
the procedures, there is a pharmacist and there is a recorder/reporter.
So you record everything that's going on, you know what medication you gave, what happened,
if there is a code that's going on, you write down all the time of the medication and the
shocks that are given.
And then you're also responsible for reporting to any consultants that might call cause you
have all the information in front of you.
So those are the roles and usually there is a little informational session right after,
just talking about the case, what you think could have done better, what you think you
did well.
So basically that's what we did yesterday during our SIM sessions and we're gonna have
more of those SIM sessions in the future.
And then usually in residency for Emergency Medicine, they try to incorporate SIM as much
as possible.
It's also one of the fellowships that you can go into after Emergency Medicine, you
learn more about SIM and you learn how to run them, you learn how to make effective.
So all around it's really interesting stuff.
I think it's a really great learning tool.
Hey guys!
It's Friday night and I'm officially done with the first half of my emergency medicine
boot camp.
So this week was pretty exhausting but I got to learn a lot of really cool procedures and
I just wanted to say if you guys are in the more boring part of your medical education,
whether it's high school, your pre-med years or first two years of medical school, don't
give up!
There's a lot of really fun and hands on things that are coming your way in the next few years
and you'll definitely get your hands dirty and learn a lot of really practical things.
Things that are a little more fun than just book studying and taking exams.
And with that, I wanted to close this video and just wanted to thank you guys for watching
this week's vlog.
I hope you guys found it interesting and I will see you guys in the next video.
BYE!