hey guys my name is connor and welcome to my youtube channel
for those of you who might be new to the channel hi my name is connor dibblin i'm a fourth year
medical student at king's college london today's video is going to be an everyday carry so what
do i take with me in my bag every day clinical placements as a fourth year medical student these
video's always seem to start with people talking about their fancy expensive cool bags but
this is not going to start with that this bag
it is really good though very comfortable it's got really good kind of weight distribution
you've got a chest and a waist strap if you feel like you're the kind of person who walks
around where he knows the best thing about it is definitely that right at the bottom
of the back here there is comes its own little kind of waterproof cover so if it starts to rain
you can just pop this over your bag it's completely waterproof i've like cycled in
torrential rain with my laptop and ipad in here and they've been completely dry
the bag has got a ton of pockets it's got like a main compartment a front compartment
and an even smaller extra front compartment and light bottles for water and stuff on the side
so once i've got my water bottle one of these really good insulated bottles from chilli in a
really nice turquoise color and the other side you know era covered and all that got some anti-back
it does come with one of these like pouches at the bottom you can put your dirty gym shoes you
close that sort of thing in there to be a bit separate i'm not currently going to a gym um
i find that i can do pretty much all my workouts at home just using some free weights and some
dumbbells i have at home and in that way i'm kind of limiting the number of people
i'm coming into contact with first of all kind of i guess the most expensive thing i own and
definitely the most exciting thing i'm carrying around my laptop this is the 2019
uh 16-inch macbook pro touch bar i think it's the middle offering i decided not to go for
the most basic one that you could possibly go for and it's amazing it's kind of pretty much
changed my life just being able to do that close it open it it's on before having this laptop uh
i just had one of those cheap novos and it was probably 200 pounds i thought at the start of uni
five years ago it lasted pretty well last five years which is pretty good for such a cheap
laptop but after a while it just died it crashed it wiped itself more than once and at the start of
this summer i was really picking up with how much online tutoring i was doing and i said you know
what i need a really reliable good high-powered laptop this is also been fantastic for youtube
the editing power on here is just unbelievable the first couple of videos i ever did uh i edited on
my ipad uh just using imovie and i don't know hopefully the difference is pretty clear
this laptop has 100 made my life easier better more productive just being able to sit down on
the tube open this up and have it working straight away it's just so amazing to be able to spend that
one hour i spend half an hour half an hour back from my way to hospital and i can just be super
productive i can get some writing done i can get some studying done doing some video editing
the battery life on this is also just unbelievable um i've gone from having a computer with about one
hour's battery life uh unplugged to this lasts easily ten um probably not when i'm
video editing but just working on notion or word and powerpoint yeah easily ten hours
as i said the editing on here is obviously so much easier so much better and it's hopefully
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next up the next item in this kind of little laptop sleeve part of the bag is my ipad pro
so this is one of the oldest ipad pros i think it's the 2016 um edition the smaller one they only
made it for about a year because they then change the dimensions of the smaller one so this has got
incredibly big metals you might see that i think it's effectively exactly the same as the current
just ipad and but yeah this has been this was an absolute game changer when i first got it
my university decided that they would stop giving us paper printed for our lectures and they put
everything digital which meant that having an ipad became almost a necessity they did give us about
100 worth of printing credit each year so if you wanted to you could go to the library and manually
print out every single one of your lectures before you enter the lecture or before you watch the
lecture online like most people did for me i like being in the lectures i like being able to take
notes on the go and i like being having them all just in one place and back up on the cloud as well
note on the ipad with the apple pencil is definitely better for me than writing on paper
or even typing i'm not particularly quick typer i can't touch type definitely something i need to
work on i know before i become a junior doctor i need to write up entire board rounds but yes
definitely note-taking way better not a necessity for medical school don't think that if you don't
have the money to buy something like an ipad or a laptop then you can't go to medical school but it
will make it a bit easier so if you can if you can't afford it i would encourage you to buy it
the other really important piece of tech for me anyway i carry around every single day when i'm
going to placements anywhere as soon as i leave the house i've got these with me these are the
sony headphones they are the best noise canceling headphones you can get they're just fantastic
um you can wear them on the tube on a plane trains public transport anything they will cancel out
every sound around you especially those kind of low ambient sounds like being on plane and they're
super super comfortable you can wear them to 24 hours easily which i have done i've worn them
for 24 hours on the flight to and from australia and being able to whack these on um study you can
just turn anywhere into a library pretty much you just put these on turn on noise cancelling whether
you have music on or not then the world around you just kind of disappears you can really focus
in my bag we then have like a little top pocket here and in there i just have some
i guess some essentials i've got just these wired apple headphones and they're just there
in case i forget to charge my uh bluetooth headphones
and then the other thing i have is a spare face mask
don't forget face mask on whenever you leave the house especially indoors or in public transport
the law now in the uk now nothing so far has been particularly med school
specific so we're going to move on to that stuff now first of all like any good medical student
stethoscope now this is a really nice stethoscope case from i think it's from pod
and inside of there we have my stethoscope another classic littmann um this one i didn't choose the
color although it probably is what i would have chosen and but it's the all black we were given
this when we graduated from the pre-clinical to the clinical years of medicine so uh between
years two and three otherwise in that pod case we've got a really useful little pouch
you can use that for anything really currently i use it to hold my very flimsy looking but still
very effective nhs um goggles that we have to be wearing whenever we have contact with a patient
and then also i've got one of these one of these really useful little plastic gizmos that you can
attach your surgical mask to your face mask and it just stops your ears getting absolutely destroyed
it also means that you can wear it over the top of a surgical scrub hat just a couple things left
in the main compartment my bag first of all the oxford clinical medicine handbook or the cheese
minion as it's affectionately known yeah this book is really incredible i think with this book and
some youtube videos you could probably pretty much pass a medical degree this is absolutely essential
for clinical placements and definitely for your osce exams your clinical exams as you can see
i've really highlighted a whole load of different sections in there that's all of the kind of most
common exams you might have to do with a patient uh the most common presenting complaints and
symptoms just i can fix straight through go to one of them open it straight up on my cardiovascular
drug section have a look straight there at cardiovascular drugs that i might need to know
now lastly in my main section of my bag i carry at all times this big hefty power bank power
bank is absolutely essential um i always forget to charge my phone or or my laptop or my ipad
and using a power bank you're able to charge any of those the laptop is amazing i don't
normally need to have to charge that separately but this power bank goes 20 000 milliamp hours it
pretty much charges my phone and my ipad probably twice um in just using this you could probably go
several days without charging either of them in the mains in the front section of my bag we have
what i think is probably maybe the most essential thing onwards that's a little pocket held notebook
so i this is a moleskin the little tiny pocket one so i just carry around this little notebook
with me on the ward it fits really well in a scrubs pocket or a lab coat pocket
every day i open up a new double page i've got a date up there i thought what i'm supposed to
be doing that day i put a little note to myself about what i should be grateful for that day make
a little to-do list and then this whole right-hand page that is set out for learning so whenever i
find out something i learned something new on the wards i realize i didn't know something as well
as i should have known um and i get a question wrong if ever i'm asked something by a doctor
it goes here so this is kind of to consolidate my learning it gives me an idea of what i've
learned each day and it's really amazing how even on a very slow day you sit down at the end of the
day and try and make some notes about what you've learned and you can always come up with something
otherwise in that front section of my bag i've got two glasses cases first of all just my sunnies
you never know when you might need a pair of sunnies it's really good to have on honey
look after your eyes i like the uk and it's perpetually gray but still
especially early in the mornings having those is great and otherwise i've got my
very cool looking green tinted dyslexia glasses so i've got dyslexia and miles ireland um and
so especially when i'm reading black text on white paper or by text on the white screen
i wear these i also wear them whenever i'm working on my laptop really um it prevents me getting
migraines and then otherwise apart from just you know a few spare pens and that sort of thing
hand cream when you're on clinical placements and you're meeting patients you're having to wash
your hands gel your hands your hands get pretty destroyed uh i have eczema and so i always really
need to have some hand cream there to try and rehydrate my hands there we have it that's what
i take to uni every day as a fourth year medical student i hope you found it useful or at least
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