Hey guys welcome back to the channel if
you're new here i'm sebastian a medical
student from Australia,
and you guys liked my last vlog so
welcome back to another productive day
in my life in medical school.
My alarm starts ringing at around 8:30am
but because I slept a little late the
night before
it's an absolute struggle to get out of
bed I take a few minutes to enjoy the
warmth of my blankets
and finally get up fix my bed and open
the blinds.
It's important to get natural light into
your room early in the morning to signal
to your brain that the day has begun
I head into the bathroom brush my teeth
and have a shower spending a few minutes
in there deep in my thoughts
it's winter here in australia which
means long hot showers are the way to go
after putting on my favorite
neighborhood pullover I head downstairs
to have some breakfast
it's important to start off every
morning with a good breakfast so for me
it's always weak fixed
and if you don't know what it is it's
these little things here
I polish off my usual eight weet-bix
and start and join a zoom call for a
tutoring session with a new student of
mine
I'm currently helping a few students
prepare for the gamsat which is the
postgraduate medical exam in Australia
as well as some students preparing for
medical school interviews today we're
working on improving interview skills by
practicing different questions covering
topics like ethics
personal qualities and motivations to
pursue medicine
here's a snippet of what we talked about
I fell in love with the responsibilities
the doctors had or
how they showed just so much empathy
when it came to talking with the
patients or
how they actually go through and then I
think you brought up a little bit like
how they go through a lot of stress and
yet they still manage to hold themselves
and be appropriate different clinical
situations
if you're preparing for medical school
interviews or want to familiarize
yourself with the process
feel free to check out my video series
on medicine interviews where i cover
common question types
the interview format and how to prepare
for it after summarizing what we've gone
through during the lesson I sign off
from the zoom call and send through the
session notes to my student I then open
up chrome and load up Osmosis
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giveaway at the end of the video
so stay tuned for that so i'm currently
in my endocrinology block
which deals with hormones and the
endocrine glands last week we covered
adrenal disorders
so i start reviewing cushing's syndrome
a condition caused by excessive levels
of cortisol
it can be exogenous meaning that it's
caused by drugs like corticosteroids
or endogenous where it's caused by an
adrenal tumor or pituitary tumor
leading to adrenal hypersecretion as i
read through the high-yield osmosis
notes
i come across a useful mnemonic for
remembering some common signs and
symptoms
bam cushinoid and so after spending some
time trying to commit that to memory
i sign out of osmosis and have some
lunch i'm feeling super lazy and not in
the mood to put my terrible cooking
skills to the test
so instead i heat up some leftover rice
in the microwave and feast on a humble
meal of
tuna and rice i throw in a banana to
contribute to my daily fruit servings
and head back upstairs to muck around on
my phone i scroll through social media
reply to a few friends
and load up skrita a chinese loading app
which helps you build vocabulary
and i smash out my daily reviews at this
point it's a little after one o'clock
and i decide it's a good time to catch
up on any content i miss during the week
here's a breakdown of what my usual week
looks like every one of our weeks
follows a similar sort of structure
so on mondays we have our clinical day
where we get to go into hospital
practice our procedural skills our
clinical skills it's the more hands-on
component of our learning
and then we have three learning days and
one day off
so on these three learning days we can
get given anywhere between
10 to 12 lectures and seminars but
because many of them are recorded online
i prefer to watch them later during the
week because you can speed them up slow
them down
and because it's a sunday i'm looking at
my list now and i have a few things to
catch up on
i have some lectures on reproductive
physiology and a few lectures on
pregnancy
so i'm going to try get through a bunch
of them now i start by watching a
lecture on pelvic pain
and our lecturer stresses the importance
of excluding pregnancy and then dives
into a discussion of the common causes
of acute pelvic
pain including ectopic pregnancy adnexal
masses
and acute pelvic inflammatory disease
afterwards i watch another lecture on
the physiology of pregnancy
as i try to make sense of all the
hormonal metabolic and physical changes
that occur during pregnancy
i think of the immeasurable complexities
that goes into creating a child
so with that said huge virtual high
fives to all the mothers out there
especially to my own mum you're the real
mvp
today's sunday so i decided to break up
the study and catch up with my
girlfriend
i put away my ipad grab my bag and head
over to the train station
it's about a 30 minute trip so i open up
the appleing queue
and play a chinese audio story to
practice my listening skills
i used to find long commutes to work or
uni wasted parts of my day
but i've started listening to podcasts
and i've been using learning apps on my
phone like linq or anki to make the most
of my time
i now look at long bus or train trips as
a relaxing way to learn something new
or do some light study i find deb at the
station and we browse through a cute
little gift store called morning glory
we find a little totoro a character from
a famous film by hayao miyazaki
and start regretting not buying more
cute things like this on our trip to
japan last year
we end up getting this little rabbit key
chain that finds a home on my bag next
to a bodyless iron man
just look how cute this little guy is we
leave the store walk through the rainy
streets and come across this cute cafe
a lot of people have asked me if i drink
coffee and the answer is not
really i used to drink two to three cups
a day during undergrad
but decided to cut it out after starting
med school and in fact my girlfriend has
got me on to drinking oolong tea
our friend arrives at the cafe and i
grab a taro latte to pair with this
pretty matcha croissant we polish off
the croissant while catching up
until our friend surprises us with mini
crispy creams deb's an absolute sucker
for donuts and the original glazed ones
are so
so good so we nibble on a few and save
the rest for later
hours passed and what was meant to be a
quick catch up at the cafe
turns into an unplanned dinner we make
our way to a korean restaurant
order a seafood pancake to share and
feast on all the little side dishes and
our tasty stews
now on this channel i talk a lot about
studying and productivity
but it's also important to spend time on
your interests hobbies and passions
while we may often feel guilty when
we're not studying or working hard
at the end of the day study and work is
simply one component of our lives
the reason why we work and strive for
productivity is to have that extra time
to spend with our family and friends
and do the things we enjoy so just
remember to enjoy the time away from the
books
it's all about balance so after
reflecting on this i kick back and enjoy
the rest of dinner guilt-free
and as it draws close to 8pm we leave
the restaurant feeling
full and happy and i take the train back
home to do some light study to finish
off the week
i unpack my bag switch on my lighting
setup to put me in a relaxing study mood
and then go through two more lectures
from the week the first covers histology
of the male reproductive system
and the other covers male reproductive
physiology contrary to my classmates
i've always really enjoyed histology as
i'm a visual learner and i like looking
at the different sections and the
different images
so i do my best to differentiate between
spermatogonia spermatocytes and
spermatids
i also learn a new fact about the blood
testes barrier and how one of its
functions is to prevent antigenic
products of germ cell maturation
from entering the circulation and
generating an immune response
i just cracked out some lectures now the
last thing to do is my pre-work for
tomorrow's clinical day
it's a monday which means we're going to
hospital and i think we have four
tutorials scheduled we have a tutorial
on glucose monitoring
we have a physical examination and
history taking tutorial
so we'll be going over the thyroid
examination and reviewing how to take a
diabetes history
and i think we're doing a workshop on
working and
learning in a clinical environment and
how i like to prepare for my clinical
days is going over tally and o'connor's
clinical examination
and it covers so much content so it's a
really really good resource to have it
has question boxes for histories and it
goes over the clinical signs you're
expected with different pathologies
i also like to use geeky medic sometimes
because they really simplify things and
they make it accessible especially
for me who's more of a junior medical
student so i'm gonna try smash out some
pre-work and then i'm gonna call that a
night
i open up tally and o'connor's next to
geeky medics as i watch a video on how
to perform a thyroid examination
i read up on common clinical signs and
thyroid pathology
and review some questions you should ask
during a thyroid history
for example with a patient presenting
with suspected hyperthyroidism
it's important to ask whether they have
a family history of thyroid problems
any palpitations loss of weight muscle
weakness
or recent exposure to iodine before i
know it's after 11 pm
and with my brain full of information
for my classes tomorrow
i turn off my desk lights and start
getting ready for bed i brush my teeth
put on my comfy koala udi and give a
quick call to my girlfriend to say
goodnight i settle in and my day ends
the same way it starts
with me lying in bed next to my penguin
power bruce well that wraps up a
productive day in my life
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next time this is Sebastian
stay sharp!
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