today is actually the day
it's gonna happen a million subscribers
incoming just absolutely mad
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what is up guys karma medic here and
welcome back to another dose today is my
last ever day as a medical student the
next day that i put this stethoscope
around my neck i'm going to be
introducing myself as dr nasser karma
absolutely wild absolutely crazy to say
out loud i don't think have i said that
a lot before
i don't even know anyways obviously a
lot of emotions and feelings going
through me right now the last day as a
medical student you know it's been a
long time coming i've actually got
placement in a little bit over an hour
currently on geriatrics at one of my
local hospitals that i've spent a lot of
my time in medical school in so let's
just get moving hop into the car and
i'll catch up with you in a second
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hey mercedes
how may i help you
navigate me to
root guidance is starting
so
welcome to my car i'm gonna be making a
full video about uh the car
fairly soon i think it's like one of the
most exciting purchases that i've had in
a very very long time and i'm really
really happy with it so video soon come
but anyways heading to the hospital for
my last day of placement as a medical
student it just feels
absolutely surreal i was trying this
morning to try and remember you know
what was i doing in my fourth year of
medical school like
how did i feel how confident was i what
kind of skills was i doing etc and i
just like i feel like i couldn't
remember it properly it kind of has just
felt like a bit of a blur from fourth
year till the end of fifth year because
things have been so busy and hectic and
now here we are with one day left
oh my
goodness
ah
absolutely mad i've come a long way you
know from being a little first-year
medical student scared to do pretty much
anything it's where i am now so i'm
really proud of that you know these
these last couple of weeks that we've
had as final year medical students on
placement they have been very relaxed in
the sense that they're very self-driven
so there's no sign-in sheet for us to
sign
no one's really checking up on us if
we're there or not primarily because the
people who were shadowing are f1s and f2
doctors so people who were in our
position just a couple of months ago or
a year ago and so you know they all say
to us the same thing like hey if you
want to go home at lunch go home at
lunch if you want to come in early come
in early if you want to leave early
leave early it's up to you basically so
it's been quite relaxing from that point
of view and you know you can really
decide your own schedule and kind of get
as much as you want and need out of the
day and i think now at this point with
one day of placement left i have reached
the point where i've learned as much as
i possibly can as a medical student in
the hospital i feel like the next steps
for me to evolve and to progress and you
know become more competent are going to
involve me actually having the
responsibility actually doing the job
and you know getting more involved
hands-on as the primary person taking
care of the patients so i think it's
just it's time it's i mean
coincidentally i'm it's my last day of
placement there's no time left i'm gonna
start working in about a month or so but
it's time for me to take that leap of
faith it's time for me to take that jump
and you know start working as a doctor
which is absolutely mad to think about
and to say and when i introduce myself
as dr nasir karma to a patient for the
first time that is going to be
absolutely mindful clean
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all right
so i'm currently on a geriatrics
rotation which basically means care of
the elderly and the vast majority of
patients that come to this ward have had
a fall for one reason or another
and are now in hospital
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one of the great things that this
transition to f1 rotation has allowed me
to do
is really take on the role of an f1
doctor which is what i'm going to be in
a couple of months for example the
people i've been shadowing have been
really really proactive in getting me as
involved as possible doing things like
requesting drugs changing drug doses
making referrals answering bleeps
getting ct scans x-rays et cetera et
cetera which has been great because
let's practice for literally what i'm
about to start doing next month
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there are pretty much no other medical
students here in the hospital i think
only final years are still here um
because it's our final year in our last
couple of weeks or last week a lot of us
are taking holidays here and there going
abroad you know trying to enjoy the last
couple
you know weeks we have as
as students before we become full-time
working professionals so there's pretty
much no one here i'm the only one so
yeah guys that's pretty much it this is
my final day on placement the last time
i'll be coming up to these lockers
throwing my stuff here in the morning as
a medical student i don't even know
where the lockers and stuff are for
doctors i'll have to figure that out in
the near future but yeah last day of
geriatrics placement i'm gonna go in and
yesterday the f1 told me that today i'm
gonna have my own patients which i'm
gonna be responsible for coming up with
their management plan treatment plan
reporting back to the consultant on the
ward round and then also presenting the
patients on the board round so that
should be fun i'm gonna go get started
and i'll catch you guys here again at
about lunch time peace
this lift is going up good morning so
quite a lot of patience did quite a few
things so time for a much needed lunch
break
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all right guys
just like that
my last day of clinical placement as a
medical student
it's the last time
i'm gonna take these scrubs and put them
in the linen bin as a medical student
last time i'll be up here
for a while
wow
that's it i'm back in my car after my
last day of placement my last day as a
medical student i don't know how to feel
about it to be honest i'm uh i'm like
happy but sad but anxious but
confident i don't know how to feel i uh
it's just you know this is something
i've been working so long towards i have
been a medical student for so long for
five years now my identity has revolved
around being a medical student every
time i introduce myself to anyone new i
meet hi yeah blah blah i'm a medical
student so at some point comes up in the
conversation you know it's just been
such a core part of my identity and who
i am and now i'm about to become a
doctor which is something i've wanted
and worked towards and strive towards my
entire life and now it's here and i have
it i don't i don't need any more exams i
don't need to prove myself anymore to
anyone like i am a doctor my name is dr
nasser karma which is which is
absolutely what to say out loud i
actually asked you guys on instagram if
you have any questions for me on my last
day on placement as a medical student in
medical school so if you don't follow me
on instagram make sure you do that
somewhere up over here um and i think
when i get home i'm gonna answer some of
those questions so i can better reflect
and think about how i feel and sort of
understand what it means to to be here
so yeah gonna drive home listen to some
music and uh i'll see you later
all right
hello everyone
i'm back from the hospital
it is currently 6 38 i didn't just get
back but had a pretty good long day on
placement and yeah now i'm excited to
look through all of the questions that
you guys sent me on instagram all right
we've got
lifeofdenz.15 who says what do you
expect to change in your day-to-day life
once you become a doctor
i think this is a good question because
i'm expecting quite a bit to change i
think two of the biggest things are
going to be changing my schedule and
then also responsibility so with regards
to my schedule you know right now i
don't really do anything from nine to
five most days most of the time i spend
some time in the hospital sometimes
studying sometime working on youtube
sometimes socializing going out playing
sports whatever and very soon i'm going
to have to spend at least nine to five
um in the same environment in the same
place and maybe even longer depending on
my shift and also that that 95 might be
on the weekends or might be overnight
you know from 8 p.m till 8 a.m or
whatever the case is so the fact that my
schedule is going to change in that way
is a little bit scary because that's out
of my control it's something that i have
to do that i can't change if i want but
i guess that's part of working life and
i'm ready to take it on the second thing
i think is responsibility this sense of
responsibility all of this time all of
my life as a student the responsibility
was always for myself and to myself
all the studying and the hard work that
i did and everything that i've done
largely in my life has been for me
hasn't been for my parents hasn't been
for anyone else so now doing things in
my day-to-day job that has direct and
serious effects on patients on other
people not necessarily just for myself
means i'm going to have a lot of
responsibility and i think with that
responsibility comes stress and you know
i have faith that as time passes and
things that once were brand new become
more routine and i get more used to them
that i won't be as stressed but surely
you know the first couple of times and
probably forever that there's an acutely
deteriorating patient in front of me or
a medical emergency or something like
that there's going to be stress because
my actions and what i'm doing and
thinking about is going to have an
impact on someone else and another human
whereas you know some of the bigger
stressors of a university student are
exams and you know upcoming assignments
and coursework and things like that and
all the decisions that you make around
that all the actions that you do
ultimately are only going to affect you
they're only going to affect your grades
how you do and whatever impact that's
going to have so those are the two
biggest things pretty pretty long answer
for the question but
that's it this might be nice to answer
cybergoku8
asks when you look back what's your best
and worst moment i'll start with my
worst moment because that's the one
that's at the forefront of my mind i
think the worst moment for me was after
i finished the usmle step one exam and i
started going back to medical school for
my fourth year of medical school and i
just had this feeling and this sense of
not enjoying my experiences as much as i
thought that i should or as much as i
used to in the past and it was something
that i'd never felt before i'd never
experienced and looking back i think
it's easy for me to see that i was just
really really burned out with studying
with working hard with being so
disciplined over a long period of time
but at the time i didn't really
understand it i didn't know what was
going on and by some stroke of luck that
i've talked about a couple of times most
recently in ali abdul's podcast i
started doing therapy with betterhelp
who was a sponsor previously on this
channel and kind of by total luck i
started doing that and that therapy is
what helped me kind of understand and
realize what was going on in my life and
what was changing about my thinking and
my and my happiness ultimately yeah i
think that period of time where i just
couldn't understand why i wasn't waking
up super happy and energized like i
always had been for my whole life and
trying to figure that out and go through
that i think was pretty tough honestly
my best memories from my time in medical
school are just being with my core
friends from medical school you know the
likes of kenji georgina shaheer aaron i
don't know who else there's there's a
lot of them i've probably forgotten a
lot of you and just going to guys bar
you know drinking chatting having fun
sitting outside on the grass or just
like late night in the library laughing
and
not studying together those were some
really good times and things that i
don't think i'm going to forget
for a while all right next question uh
it's from x dot zaheed and they say what
will you miss from med student life and
what will you not miss i think the thing
i'm going to miss most about life as a
medical student is
how much ability you have to do things
in the hospital and with patients with
ultimately close to no responsibility
and no you know final yeah i guess
responsibility for that thing as a
medical student you are able to go talk
to people you're able to do procedures
on them examine them you know ask so
many questions about their personal life
their history yeah their medical history
everything like that in surgery you get
to take part in surgery sometimes you
know these are these are amazing amazing
things that like no one else gets to do
besides people in the healthcare
profession and to be able to do all
those things as a medical student purely
with the intention of learning and
obviously trying to help the patient but
you you don't have ultimate
responsibility for taking care of that
patient you're gaining knowledge and
you're doing this for learning i think
is incredible and i think few other
professions give you an opportunity like
that to do something so amazing and
profound whilst being so heavily
supervised and i don't know i don't know
i'll never get to do that again every
action i take in the future is you know
is going to have to be me my
responsibility and my name assigned to
it and signed off on it the other thing
is the schedule
as a student you know if you wake up and
you're feeling tired you just call in
sick
you just say you're not coming in today
you decide to do something else and of
course you have a lot of time off in the
summers and in christmas for holidays
and visiting family and stuff like that
i'm gonna miss that for sure what i'm
not gonna miss one single bit is another
exam i've always said my whole life i
don't care about exams i love i love
studying i'm you know exams are whatever
i just study for them i write them it's
fine nine years into university
education i've had enough i don't i
don't want to see a single exam again i
know of course i have plenty of exams
ahead of me but i'm happy that i'm going
to have like a year's break with no
exams for sure samadhi
dot underscore 04 says you've come a
long way to be a doctor what will your
next step be that's very true i have
come a long way to be a doctor i've done
a lot and i've sacrificed a lot to
become a doctor and i think that such a
huge reason for why i decided to study
medicine and i'm gonna expand on this in
a future video but such a huge reason is
that i just wanted to leave a positive
impact somehow and i couldn't think of a
way in which i could possibly leave a
stronger impact than being a doctor and
helping patients uh i wasn't going to do
that as an engineer as an accountant as
a lawyer as a professional snowboarder
as an athlete whatever there was no
other career that i thought would be
able to give me such a strong impact on
as many people as possible and i feel
like throughout my time in medical
school through this youtube channel i've
managed to have such a strong impact and
you know make serious positive change in
a lot a lot of people and to feel that
i've done that before i've started
working as a doctor is amazing
um
i'm
why am i getting so emotional
i'm really really proud i'm i'm so so
happy with what this youtube channel has
been able to achieve i i wouldn't change
it for anything any of the sacrifice and
hard work that went into it i think i
now realize after having reached a
million subscribers how much impact
these videos have had and i'm so happy
with what they've managed to achieve and
i'm so happy with what you guys tell me
about that this channel has helped you
with and so what's next is you know i'm
about to start fulfilling the dream that
i originally had as a kid the goal that
i originally had as a kid which was to
leave a positive impact through being a
doctor and i'm i'm so excited i'm so
excited to do that you know this youtube
channel has a positive impact in its own
way and being a doctor has a positive
impact in its own way as well and i'm
just really really excited to get that
process started and start doing those
things and seeing where it takes me so
yeah good things good things ahead from
the bottom of my heart i just want to
thank you all for watching these videos
for supporting me for commenting really
nice things and just kind of being here
along with me on this journey so for the
last time i hope you enjoyed this video
thank you so much for watching this has
been nasser karma and i'll see you in
the next one
peace
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