this video is sponsored by Lecturio
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hey guys welcome back to the channel if
you're new here i'm sebastian a medical
student from australia
and today i'm back on campus i'm walking
through eastern avenue
this is like the main strip where all
the students are and you have a bunch of
like
lecture theaters and different buildings
for classes so i spent a lot of time in
undergrad here
but currently i'm going towards fisher
library to meet some friends
we're gonna do a big group study session
because we've got exams in two and a
half weeks
should be a lot of fun trying to get a
lot done and i'll catch you in a bit
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all right guys so i picked up my coffee
i got a large flat white i usually don't
drink coffee but today
i feel a little bit tired so hopefully
this wakes me up but like i said we have
our final exam
in two and a half weeks and it's pretty
much going to cover
everything that we've done this year and
last and i think i forgot a lot of first
year content
so that's definitely going to be the
difficult part for me
i arrive at the library and meet up with
my friends declan and alex at our usual
study booth
we start working through some quiz
questions together and come across a few
difficult pathologies
one of them being congenital adrenal
hyperplasia
or cah for short we learn the most
common type of cah
involves a defective gene for 21
hydroxylase
an enzyme needed for the synthesis of
aldosterone and cortisol
because these patients don't have this
enzyme they usually present with
vomiting due to salt wasting
and extreme viralization due to excess
androgen production
i find doing group study like this very
helpful because we can discuss our
reasoning behind each question
and if someone is stronger in a specific
topic it gives them the chance to teach
and help out the group
a few hours later we make our way out
all right so we just finished with the
study and we were covering a bunch of
practice questions
for endocrine physiology and
pathology and honestly all the
different type 2 diabetic drugs like
the gliptins the flozins putting that
into my head
is going to be a bit of a struggle but
currently we're on our way to lunch and
we're going to grab some thai food
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all right guys so we just got to abs and
we found a little study room
we have a finals exam coming up in two
and a half weeks
and it's 120 questions covering all 10
blocks that we've done so what's that
it's like renal
oncology yeah cardiology resp
foundations so there's so many things
and if you calculate all the lectures
seminars pracs that we got covered
it's probably like over 500
yeah 500 easy and compressing that into
120 questions
is gonna be a bit difficult so we'll see
how it goes then after that we're having
a two-week clinical intensive which
means we're going to go into the
hospital learning how to take
histories getting used to all the
physical examinations and then we'll be
having our osces afterwards
we're going to put into about six
scenarios and they'll put a patient and
we might have to take a history from
them we might have to perform say like a
thyroid exam or a
um what's the most maybe like a
peripheral
like a cardio exam or a peripheral
limb examination
and that's more of the interesting stuff
because we're actually putting theory
into the context
but we're going to keep smashing out
these practice questions in terms of the
practice questions that we're doing
we're doing questions from lecturio
who's also kindly sponsoring this video
i'll talk about them
a bit later
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dampens your immune system dampens your
blood clotting factors so you bruise
easily and it impairs wound healing
well it causes increased osteoclast
activity if you increased your
gluconeogenesis
you'd get diabetes what does a1 adrenoreceptors do
so that's the one that vasoconstricts
vasoconstricts so would you want
vasoconstriction
in a stressed response probably because
you're trying to that's why i'm thinking
increased blood sugar simulation
i i think it's i think it's yeah let's
just go with that one it's 100 percent
yeah lets go
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having that 3 30 nap you know I'm tired
alex help me no man i don't need to
stop
all right guys so we're just sitting out
for a quick five minute break and we've
been going through
we've been going we've been going
through a bunch of different
practice questions about like all the
different nephropathies and
glomerulonephritis syndromes that you'd
have and that's the reality of medical
school i guess that there's gonna be so
much information right and you're not
gonna be able to remember
everything and so generally there's this
rule it's called like the pareto
principle or the 80 20 rule
where 20% of the theory will give you 80%
of the yield
and if you're preparing for your own
exam the best thing that i can suggest
is to get started early
to start preparing your study schedule
focus on the high yield stuff
and then if you have the time go down
and learn those little niche facts
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it really depends on the day of the week
but it also depends on like where you're
up to
like often i work a lot harder like in
the start of the week so monday tuesday
wednesday i'll put a lot of time in just
trying to get really on top of things
so that i feel good about the week i
think around exam time yeah i'll be
doing upwards of you know 10 12 hours
i don't want to look back and be like i
could have prepared better or whatever
yeah guys it's all about small wins you
want to make little small wins every day
to get you going
and also think about learning not just
for learning sake but how you can apply
it later on in your job and your career
and i'll really give you the motivation
to actually get into it because you know
that will be useful later on
my mindset is to to make sure i'm being
really efficient with my time so i like
to try and set up my
my calendar at the start of the week on
a sunday night or monday morning and
just
plan out what i'm doing for the week
across three or four hour blocks
in terms of maybe non-exam times just
depends on how much you got to do and
there's always
more you can do so it's kind of about
finding a balance but as i study it's
kind of like
i'll do as much as i need to to be
comfortable that i'm
going to pass the exam but also that
i'll be a competent doctor in the future
hopefully
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all right that's the end of our session
we just got out of abs so on our way to
the train now we're getting on at
redfern station
and gonna make the bit of a long trip
back home hopefully peak hour isn't too
bad
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all right guys so i'm back home now i
made the train trip back
and i've unpacked my things and i'm
starting to feel
a little bit tired the morning coffee
that i had is slowly
wearing off i think the half-life of
caffeine's about eight hours
so it's probably almost around that time
now i'm going to try crack on and do a
little bit more study
and recently i've been using lecturio to
study who is a kind sponsor of today's
video
and i just want to tell you a little bit
about them so if you've never heard of
lecturio it's essentially an online
platform
that has a video library it has question
banks it has space repetition and it's
very comprehensive it pretty much covers
all the organ systems basic science
pathology pharmacology physiology
it's been very very helpful and i've
been using it for the last couple of
weeks to prepare for my exam and i want
to quickly show you about how i've been
using it and what it looks like
so looking at the home page you can see
a study planner question of the day
video library and question bank and if
you have a topic that you're learning
about
chances are lecturio will have it
covered and i really like it because the
playlist is structured in a way that
makes sense each of these playlists you
can add to your study planner if you're
only looking at say diabetes or you're
only looking at thyroid gland disorders
you can select them and add them to your
study plan i might want to review
glucose homeostasis and they'll give you
all the high yield principles that will
be clinically relevant
what i also like is it's not just the
video so when you finish the video
they'll give you a bunch of quiz
questions
and so this question is which one of the
following does not occur in a person in
a state of fasting so if you're fasting
you're expected to have increased
gluconeogenesis
your glucagon is going to be going in
overdrive the thing you're not probably
going to do
is increase glycolysis so i'll select
this and i'm feeling confident about it
and that's the correct answer and what's
cool about the quiz questions is that
they go to your space repetition bank
and so having a look at my own i have
653 quiz questions in my deck
and i like it because it makes sure that
you're constantly being exposed to the
material that you covered from previous
weeks
and another feature that i want to show
you guys is the question bank and so
once you go into this page you can
create a custom test
and i only want to be doing the
endocrine and renal system
and it's going to give me 168 questions
in this question pool so when i start
the quiz i have my stem
and then i have my five options as
you're reading through it you can
actually highlight important bits of
information 28 year old man
blood pressure of this his pulse is 114
per minute
which of the following relative lab
findings would you most likely expect to
find in this patient he's extremely
hypoglycemic at the moment and they
found a tumor in the pancreas
because we're seeing such a hypoglycemic
state it's most likely secreting a lot
of
insulin so on lab findings i'm expecting
to see a low glucose so that's option a
or c
and we're expecting to see an increase
in c peptide because insulin is being
hypersecreted
and ketoacidosis we're probably not
expecting it
so i'm leaning towards option c and
let's see if that's correct
and it is what's really really cool
about it is they give you a
comprehensive explanation so it tells
you that insulinoma is the most likely
diagnosis
it gives you related videos and book
references to what information you
should know
and if you can go through this some of
these questions are really difficult but
they're extremely helpful because they
tie in all the different concepts that
you're learning about
into one clinical scenario so if you're
thinking about checking out lecture i'd
suggest going down in the description
box
using my coupon code sebastianpirie35 and
i'll give you 35 per cent
off the three month and 12 month plans
so be sure to check it out
okay so i'm gonna get back to my
computer and then try to smash out the
rest of the endocrine videos on lecturio
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i finished off the endocrine lecturio
videos and i'm heating up some dinner
now
and a lot of you guys ask me hey seb how
do you stay motivated and bothered to
keep studying especially when you're
tired
and right now i'm considering the fact
that i'm only about two and a half weeks
away from exams
so if i just think of it it's a short
amount of time it's only 17 or 18 days
if i knuckle down i can truly
reward myself with the break afterwards
it'll feel fulfilling
and if you don't work hard and you just
do the exam the break's not going to be
the same it's not going to be
deserved and so i think as long as you
acknowledge that it's a short time
and two that whatever you're learning
now it's going to be relevant in the
long run
that's what it keeps me going
so it is a wednesday and i usually
upload my youtube videos every thursday
so right now i am editing a new video
which is going to go live
on youtube tomorrow and by the time you
guys see this it should already be up so
i'm going to link it somewhere here
it's on my honors experience so be sure
to check it out to support the channel
so every week i have to dedicate some
time to edit these videos for you guys
so i try to do it night time after i
finished off my study hopefully
i can smash it out within the hour
well i just finished editing the video
it is ready to render and i will upload
it to youtube sometime tomorrow
and my mates just messaged me then
saying that they're going to play some
among us
so i'm going to join them and i've got
about two hours left in the night it's
10 o'clock currently
to just veg out and relax and if you
haven't already be sure to check out
lecturio
they have awesome videos a really
comprehensive qbank
so be sure to click on the link in the
description below and use my coupon code
sebastianpirie35 to get 35
off three and 12 month memberships well
that's gonna wrap the end of the vlog
i hope you guys enjoyed it i had a lot
of fun spending time with my mates alex
and declan it was such a refreshing
change
from just being in my room and if you're
also preparing for an upcoming exam or
assignment best of luck i'll be busy
studying for the next couple of weeks so
i might be a little bit more quiet on
youtube but i'll be back again soon and
if you enjoyed the video be sure to hit
that like button
subscribe and do all that good stuff and
until next time this is sebastian
stay sharp