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- So hi, my name is Nasir.
I'm a second year medical student,
studying at King's College London.
This, everything that you see around me,
is the Guy's Campus.
It's the life sciences and medicine
and also dentistry campus.
So most of the students that you'll see walking around here
are studying one of those three things.
I originally did my first degree in Toronto
at the University of Toronto in immunology,
biotechnology and molecular biology.
And now, I'm studying medicine here in London.
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So this behind me is the Shepherd's Bush Building,
also known as the Chantler SaIL Center.
What this building is, is it's basically
a hospital-simulated environment
that medical students can come into.
And we can practice all the clinical skills
that we both see in hospital and do in hospital
so that we can make sure that we're really good at them
while interacting with patients on clinical placement.
Inside the Chantler SaIL building,
we have on display one of the Student Selected Components
by one of my good friends.
So in this project that you do in second year,
it can either be clinically focused,
or it can be about the arts and humanities.
And so, my friend, he decided to use photography
to showcase the passions that medical students have
outside of medical school.
So for example, we have someone playing the guitar.
We have me, making YouTube videos.
We're all wearing a stethoscope to indicate that
we are medical students and we love medicine.
But we also have passions outside of medical school
that we carry on with us.
We don't just forget about them,
just because we're now in medical school.
It's something that we can continue to do.
This is the Hodgkin Building behind me.
If you're interested in medicine at all,
you might have heard of Hodgkin's lymphoma.
It's actually named after Mr. Hodgkin
who was an anatomy curator here, many, many years ago.
So that's who this building is named after.
It's basically the cornerstone of the medical school
here on Guy's Campus.
It has a couple of lecture theaters,
many smaller rooms dedicated to tutorials
and case-based discussion type learning.
And then, it also has the cadaveric dissection rooms.
They are up on the top floor.
Something great about King's is that
the cadaveric dissection is done firsthand by the students.
So it's a really good way to sort of get in there
and really practice taking a look
at the human body from the inside.
It's a very good way to learn your anatomy,
and I would highly recommend it if you can.
It's actually one of the main reasons that I applied
to King's College London as well.
So we're standing just outside one of the anatomy labs
which is where I held a human brain in my hands
for the very first time.
Just to the left of me, over here, is the Gordon Museum.
This is a museum that houses thousands
of anatomical specimens,
ranging from all different systems of the body.
They all have some sort of pathology
that's going on with them.
So you can look at the anatomical specimen in the pot
and then, also read about the pathology
that's going on in there.
So it's another really great learning resource
for medical students here at King's.
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Since I studied immunology as one of my majors,
back at the University of Toronto,
when I got to King's College London,
I decided to join the Immunology Society.
They asked me to give a presentation or a lecture
in this room to second year medical students,
talking about different immunological diseases.
So let's say rheumatoid arthritis, SLE or lupus
and other things like that.
So this lecture hall holds a special place for me
'cause it's where I gave my first
sort of lecture at university.
And yeah, they've recently renovated it
with all these bright colors.
So it'll be perfect for when you come here.
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So I chose to study medicine because when I was younger,
I was thinking that no matter what the job
that I was gonna do or the work that I was doing,
I wanted to make sure that it had a positive impact
on the people around me, that I could feel
within a relatively short period of time.
And then, because I really loved sciences at high school
and I had a passion for the human body,
I decided to do some research experience
and also work in hospitals, to shadow doctors,
and sort of try and see if that love for the sciences
and the human body would be applicable
to the chaotic field of medicine.
And I found that it did.
I really enjoyed every single experience that I did.
That's what pushed me towards actually applying
to medical schools in the end.
And here I am.
So now, as a second year medical student,
like I mentioned before, we are exposed a lot more
to the clinical settings of medicine.
So we spend one day a week, on Tuesdays, in the hospital
and then, one day a week, on Fridays, in general practice.
That's all the clinical teaching that we get.
Then Mondays is a day that's covering lectures.
So usually, from 9:00 a.m. 'til about 12:00 p.m.,
I think now, we have lectures in the morning.
And then, we have tutorials and workshops
sort of spread out, throughout the week.
Including on Thursday, we have what's called
a Student Selected Component.
So it's a field of study that we get to choose
out of a list of like, 200 different options.
It's something that you can delve into deeper
and do some research on.
You get to write an essay and do a presentation,
things like that.
So second year is quite structured.
In comparison to first year,
first year of medical school here at King's
is very lecture-heavy.
We had lectures from anywhere
between 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.
and then, even sometimes 9:00 a.m. 'til 5:00 p.m.,
of course, with lunch breaks in the middle.
But first year was a lot more lecture-heavy.
And then, we also had tutorials,
workshops, cadaveric dissections.
That sort of filled up the entire week.
But there was a lot less.
But there wasn't really any clinical exposure in first year.
It was more about simulated scenarios with patients
to prepare you for the clinical exposure in second year.
So another big thing about King's College London
is that it's a really research-intensive school.
So we're actually located right next to Guy's Hospital
which is just behind me there.
It's one of the biggest hospitals in London,
and they do a lot of great surgery and work here.
We also have research facilities
in the New Hunt's House building on the campus.
Just generally, there are a lot of good lec.
There are a lot of lectures here
that put out really amazing research.
And in fact, a lot of my friends do research here,
during the school year and over the summer.
So if you're interested in research,
King's is definitely a really good place to go.
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So this is The Shed.
It is the social hub of Guy's Campus.
This place is absolutely packed, during lunchtime.
Everyone comes to take a break here,
in between lectures or for their lunch
or just to unwind a little bit.
We also have a ping-pong table and a foosball table.
So there's a lot of good places to let off some steam.
The social life, here at King's, is honestly, really great.
There's over, I think, 200 societies that you can join,
so many different groups and activities to take part in.
And on top of that, because it's such a big school,
there's so many students that you can meet.
There's so much opportunity to make new friends
and hang out with different types of people.
So there's something here for everyone.
On top of that, I want to say that there's always time
for extracurriculars, even in a course
as demanding as medicine.
For example, I play basketball once a week.
I go to the gym, multiple times a week,
and I still have time to hang out with my friends
at bars, at board game nights, whatever it is.
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So yeah, I even have enough time
to run my own YouTube channel.
It's called Kharma Medic,
and it focuses on helping prospective medical students
get into medical school.
I remember when I was applying to medical school,
how difficult everything was.
And so, I wanna give back to everyone
and try and help them get into medical school.
I also try and give you guys a little bit
of an insight into what it's like
for someone to be in medical school,
you know, the social life, the work, the studying,
the clinical placements and everything like that.
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