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hi everyone my name is Lucy and I'm a
third-year medical student at the
University of Nottingham today I'm going
to be filming a bit of a day of my life
in lockdown studying medicine online and
yeah I just thought I'd take you along
with me so I normally start my day off
as I've just shown you with my porridge
for breakfast and then I will do some
sort of exercise so either I run or some
weights or some sort of yoga this
morning I need body balance which is
kind of a mix between Tai Chi yoga and
Pilates yeah then I had my shower and
started my day the first thing I had was
a sort of webinar with the Dean of the
med school because they're kind of
communicating with us quite frequently
about what's going on with our course
because obviously it's hard to change
quite significantly because we are meant
to be on placement in hospital wards
right now and obviously that can't be
happening
so yeah the course structure has changed
quite a lot so the med school are really
good and they keep doing these Q&A
sessions for us so I was on that this
morning just finding out about any new
changes and now I'm going to get started
with work I have an online course at the
moment so this is our online course as
you can see every week has a different
theme and the week we're currently in is
the vascular and also that week we have
stuff set for us to do so Monday to
Tuesday we have different lectures to go
through these are sort of patients
stories so we can listen to patient
histories and get an idea of how
different conditions might present and
then we have a well-being Wednesday
where we're meant to kind of relax and
just have a day off
and then Thursday Friday we have more
things set and then finally we have some
clinical cases to work through at the
end of the week and an end of the week
quiz so because it is a Friday today I
have done most of the work for this week
so this morning I'm going to be going
through the clinical cases and then I'm
going to get to revising so obviously
although it is the vascular and also
week I am constantly trying to revise
and refresh my memory on all the
areas of Medicine that we've been doing
so I'm currently revising the
gastrointestinal stuff so upper GI and
lower GI and I'm condensing all of my
online notes into a notepad so I'll be
doing some revision later
I've also got a seminar today so yeah
it's a pretty busy day and yeah I'm
gonna get started on these cases now
so these cases are really good obviously
they're not as good as seeing a patient
in real life and actually speaking to
them and seeing what happens to them
when they arrive at hospital but it's
kind of a pretty good substitute so it
starts with a presenting complaint so a
52 year old woman comes to TEP practice
complaining of tiredness and a constant
sense of fatigue and then basically in
the case you work through so what you
think the problem could be what
questions you would ask her to find out
more what investigations you might do
and finally like what would you do to
manage the patient so all in all this is
a quite a fun and interactive way of
learning and I can kind of type in my
answers and then get feedback on them
this is a really nice thing to do at the
end of the week to consolidate all of my
learning for the week
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so I finished going through those cases
and now I have one more lecture for this
week that I would like to go through and
then I am going to listen to the patient
stories so it's basically a patient
talking for a couple of minutes about
the condition they have and what their
symptoms were and like what sore
treatments and management's they've had
that won't take long and then after that
it will probably be a lunch time so this
last lecture that I need to do is on a
or tick dissection so I'm just gonna
find that in my notes so that I can sort
of go through the lecture with my notes
so this is the book that I've used to
write out all my notes I just learned a
lot better from sort of color and hand
written notes I just need to find a bit
on aortic dissection I think it is just
here yes so I will work through the
lecture with my notes out and then I can
add anything that I need to so my last
thing for this morning before lunch is
I'm just going to quickly watch through
the patients stories like I said and
that's all the work I'm going to sort of
do for the online course and then I'm
going to get to revising
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so I've had a nice break for lunch and
sat in the garden it was all nice and
sunny and now I'm going to get back to
work so I'm going to be doing some sort
of revision now making some notes I'm
currently on the acute abdomen section
to talk about acute abdomen presentation
so like having a severe pain in your
abdomen so I'm going to be condensing my
notes that are on my laptop into this
notepad and just make them look nice and
neat and colorful and easier to revise
from
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so I'm now gonna have a nice break so
I'm gonna go into the garden and just
basically sunbathe take a book with me
might watch something on my phone or
listen to music or something but
basically just completely switch off
from work I think it's really important
to do this for me in the day because
otherwise I can just get carried away
just sat at my desk and I need to give
myself chance to like revive and have a
nice break it's my seminar is at 4:00
and it's currently 20 plus 2 so actually
yeah an hour and a half maybe just some
bathing and then I quickly need to read
over some in my renal notes before my
seminar because it's one of the ones
where like you get asked questions and I
don't wanna be put on the spot
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so I've just come in from some moving in
the garden and it's very hot out today
it's my seminar in about 20 minutes so
I'm just gonna read over some of my
notes the seminar is au ology seminar so
about the kidneys and in particular to
say I think we're doing like kidney
stones and renal colic it's strange
because obviously if I was in Nottingham
at the moment my contact hours would be
insane like I would be in like all day
every day on the wards and like in
clinics and theaters obviously with some
teaching as well and so it's weird for
us now that we just have like nothing
we're used to having like 9 to 5
lectures in first and second year as
well it's weird getting used to just
learning from our laptops so I really do
appreciate these seminars that we do
have so this week for example we have my
urology one which I have every week with
a urology consultant and then I had a
caller ecto-1 yesterday we also have one
with our clinical skills Teaching
Fellows once a week and then we have
some random ones like I had one about
like history taking I had one about
radiology looking at x-rays and so it
just kind of berries we can we
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so I just had dinner after my seminar
and now I am going out to see a friend
we have lots of like green spaces near
us so it's very easy for us to meet up
and stay two meters apart so yeah
that'll probably be it work wise for me
and I'm just gonna kind of enjoy the
rest of the day now I often tend to do
this like I do a lot of my work in the
morning and the early parts of the day
because then I can just be more relaxed
and have a nice evening without having
to do work so I'm just walking home now
had a really nice evening just chatting
so I'm home now and that brings me to
the end of this day in the life vlog I
hope it was fun and interesting for you
to watch and I hope you have a bit more
of an insight now into the life of a
virgin medical student at the University
of Nottingham
during lockdown if you want to see more
of my videos then go and check out my
channel it's called Lucy Brett on
YouTube and thank you very much for
watching and good bye and good night
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