Hey everyone, I’m Uwa and I’m a second year Medical Student here at
the University of Nottingham. If you’d like to find out a bit more about me,
I’ll leave my socials somewhere on the screen. Feel free to go and check them out.
In today’s vlog I’m going to give you a snapshot of what its like being a medical
student at the University of Nottingham. It really is so amazing. Each day is so different
and so busy but still so fun. Literally, there are no two days at medical school which are the same.
I’m going to try my best to show you as much as I can in this vlog
and I hope you find it useful and I hope you enjoy it.
You know the saying, the early bird gets the worm, and I do get up quite early.
I love starting my mornings with a strong gym session; getting the happy hormones going,
getting the blood pumping. It puts me in a great mood and I feel motivated for the rest of the day.
As they say, breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I always start my day with
a hearty bowl of protein oats. It’s the thing that I look forward to the most,
getting back from the gym and making my oats.
I hold my hands up, it's quite sad that a bowl of oats makes me the happiest,
but it’s the little pleasures in life that we have to hold onto, right?
Oats in my belly and I’m ready to take on whatever medical school has to throw at me.
I always like to dress comfortably for lectures and today I threw on my favourite pair of joggers.
So at the medical school here at the University of Nottingham,
they currently use a blended approach to learning. This means that we’ve got some
in-person teaching and some online teaching. The main things that are now done online
are some workshops, and then we have some online lectures. So some of these are,
live lectures on Microsoft Teams, and then others would be pre-recorded lectures.
And then the rest of the things are in-person which I’ll talk to you about later on in the vlog.
So it's nearly 9am and I’ve got a couple of lectures this morning
which are all in-person. I’m all ready, so let’s go!
Although I live literally a five minute walk away from the med school,
I still somehow always manage to run late. It must be because I get distracted by the Ningbo
Friendship Bridge and also the beautiful views right outside the Pharmacy School.
This morning we had two lectures and often on a Monday morning after the lectures I
have a little break before coming back to the med school for dissections.
A popular hangout spot at the med school is Hipps Café. There are loads of places to hang out and
chill and study by yourself or with others in and around the med school. A popular place
is the Greenfield Library but, I can’t lie, I’m quite a home bird
and I like to study in the comfort of my own room.
Something I absolutely love about the Medicine course at Nottingham
is that to supplement the physiology teaching, we’re given weekly case studies
based on the particular pathology that we’re learning about. This gives us
the opportunity for independent study and to delve further into the topics.
We’re also able to use resources like the BNF for us to learn more about dosing and prescribing.
After a couple hours of independent study, revising or catching up on lectures,
I head back to the med school for my dissection.
This is a stand out feature of the course here at Nottingham.
Our anatomy teaching is complemented by cadaver dissections. We are privileged to have weekly
dissections on the bits of anatomy that we’re learning about. Within the dissection suites
there are doctors and anatomists to help us consolidate our knowledge and understanding.
There is so much to do in Nottingham as a student. First of all, there are over
200 societies you can pick from to join within the Students' Union. If you’re a sporty person,
there’s over 70 different sports clubs that you can try and there’s also more than 100
volunteering opportunities for you. So there really is loads for you to get involved in.
As a medical student, you are instantly part of the medical society, MedSoc. Within MedSoc there
are various other medical societies which anyone within a healthcare course can join.
I’m part of the MedSoc netball team and I go to their weekly training sessions.
And it's nice to do something in my evenings that’s different to revising,
or uni work, catching up on lectures or just staying in. It's really nice just
to exercise and meet other people on my course and on other healthcare courses.
MedSoc host various events throughout the year which are open to medical students
in all years. These are some clips from the Welcome Ball they hosted in October
that was first years and second years. It was just like a prom,
we got dressed up really nice, the boys wore suits and ties, the girls wore fancy dresses,
we had a snazzy meal, some tasty dessert. We just had loads of fun throughout the night.
As you can tell, right now, I’m dressed up and ready to go out. Me and my housemates are going
to go to something called Bonkerz Bingo which is a student event. Like I said, there’s plenty to get
involved in as a student in Nottingham, both in the city and within the University.
So I’m gonna end the vlog here. Thank you guys so much for watching,
I hope you enjoyed a snippet of a day in my life.
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Thank you guys once again for watching and I’ll see you again soon. Bye!