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guys karma medic here and welcome back
to another dose if you need to the
channel hi my name is Nasir and I'm now
third-year medical student studying at
King's College London and every day
whether my university taking home
lecture notes or I'm on clinical
placement in the hospital writing found
interesting things that I see on Ward
rounds I'm using my iPad to take notes
every single day to absolutely change my
life as a student that has been the
single most valuable investment that
I've made I'm a huge fan of students
using digital or electronic note-taking
methods and in this video I'm going to
show you exactly why if you are a
student using the iPad pro I'd love to
hear from you in the comments about how
you use in your day to day and what it's
helped improve in your life so as a
medical student I spend hundreds of
hours sitting on my desk learning all
kinds of different things about the
human body and so as you can imagine I
accumulate tons and tons of notes here
are a couple of examples of what my
notes look like and to look something
like this with pictures that I've taken
from the lecture slides also have my
subtitles here and then everything
underneath is sort of the information
relevant to that subtitle I use all
kinds of different colors and note
taking techniques to help me remember
things I actually have a whole video on
that you guys can check it out over here
but over time before I switch the iPod I
accumulated so many different papers you
know what let me just show you these are
all the notes that I wrote during my
university years at the University of
Toronto so this is my first year of
medical school and then these are all
the notes that are out when studying for
the MCAT hundreds and hundreds of pages
of handwritten notes these three big fun
heavy folders which you really can't
take anywhere with you the iPad can fit
probably 20 times as much information as
this all in one tiny thin electronic
device as much as I am neat and
organized and I do everything in a very
specific way it's still difficult to go
back through these paper notes and find
anything that I need and that's another
thing that the iPad is amazing for you
can literally just ctrl-f your whole
iPad you can find any word that you've
written from any piece of notes anywhere
let's say somewhere in these notes I
want to find where I talked about
bronchoconstriction so I can go here and
I can search bronchoconstriction and
even
my handwriting is absolutely horrible
over here I found their
bronchoconstriction where am I gonna
find bronchoconstriction in all of these
papers and handwritten notes that part
of using an iPad honestly cannot be
understated for university students
anyways let's put this away it's taking
up too much space and it's heavy it's so
light you barely even notice it when
it's in your bag and it literally
carries ten times the amount of
information that I could put in physical
space all the pens and papers that I
used to carry around with me has been
simply replaced by this one Apple pencil
all the colors thicknesses I lighters
and pens that I could possibly want at
my fingertips in just one second
it's just this one simple extremely thin
and light device another amazing feature
about the iPad is that you can use it as
a second screen with your MacBook with
the new iOS and Mac OS updates they've
made this very very simple using an
application called sidecar you just
click this one button and it will
immediately make your iPad a second
screen I honestly cannot overstate how
valuable having a big screen has been
for me it improves my productivity and
my efficiency so much you can have the
essay that you're writing open on one
screen and then all of the internet
research that you're doing on the other
now I decided to go with the twelve
point nine inch version of the iPad pro
and that's because I wanted more screen
real estate for when I'm multitasking
you know having two different apps open
at the same time it's definitely
valuable to have more screen real estate
in order to write so the amazing thing
about the iPad is for example let's take
my lectures on cardiovascular disease
let's go to electro one so this over
here is the equivalent of one piece of
paper and especially if you hold this in
portrait mode you can see that this is
the exact size of an a4 piece of paper
which made the transition for me from
writing on paper to going fully digital
in my life so much easier and it felt so
much more natural something else that
really helped with that natural
transition was the paper like screen
protector besides actually protecting my
screen from any scratches or in
fingerprints and things like that it
actually feels like you're writing on
paper which is just huge and that's made
my transition to digital note-taking
just so much more smooth feels so much
more natural and it's as if nothing has
changed I've just gained all of the
upside that comes along with having an
iPad it feels familiar it feels easy and
it eliminates that feeling if you're
writing on a slippery slab of glass and
that's honestly made my experience at
keynotes on an iPad so much better I'm
really really enjoying it if you guys
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you're actually using an Apple pencil
and the iPad in order to take your notes
as opposed to typing on a laptop and
you're actually using your brain every
single time that you write down a word I
know that when I was in lectures at the
University of Toronto with my old laptop
I would literally just sit there almost
be falling asleep and just typing away
whatever it is that I was listening to
whatever the professor was saying I did
manage to get down all the material that
the professor was saying but the
downside was I was basically learning
nothing now that I actually have to
write out anything that I think is
important I actually have to use my
brain to convert whatever the professor
is saying into a nice concise and easy
thing for me to write down and something
that I can actually remember and another
thing that I really appreciate about the
iPod is that in the future if you ever
want to add in new information or you
want to delete something that's old it's
just so so so simple you can move things
around manipulate things and just add in
new info which is something that I
really hated not being able to do on my
paper notes if I ever had to add
something or I forgot something and I
now need to squeeze it in it was always
such a big thing because I was ruining
my very neat organization and having to
move things around so this is just a
very big point for me now we can't talk
about the iPad without talking about the
apps so obviously not only do you get
this device that's amazing for taking
your notes organizing everything in your
life but you also have the app store now
as a medical student one of the apps
that I use the most is c3d for not to me
which is an Anatomy app that allows you
to see the human body in 3d you can
manipulate the body zoom in click on
different bones objects and structures
and learn more about them and it's just
an incredibly useful app on top of that
obviously there's millions of other apps
I use Quizlet for my flashcards I use
geeky medics in order to prepare for my
objectively structured clinical exams or
a skis you know there's all kinds of
apps that you can use in order to help
you study in order to improve your
efficiency while studying it's not just
something that you use to write on and
take notes it has a lot of other
benefits as well now one of the biggest
advantages of having an iPad is simply
the organization and decluttering
ability that it grants you so for
example in this note-taking app called
notability over here on the Left I have
all kinds of different dividers and
within them
all kinds of different subjects as you
can see they're neatly organized by
color and let's open one of them let's
say supporting life within supporting
life I have all of these different
subjects and each one of these is going
to have its own set of lectures case
based discussions workshops etc and
within each of those you guys can see
the notes that I've taken lecture to
pleural diseases scroll down a bit more
lecture 3 hypersensitivity on asthma and
as you can see for every single one of
these lectures there's just look at how
much information I can put here and just
the style the organization and
everything is just amazing another thing
with the iPad is you literally have no
papers ever any document or handout I'm
given in my tutorials I literally take a
photo off sent to my ipod and import
directly into notes ability that way I
never lose papers I never crumpled
papers and it's literally all in this
one little thin device I mean I can't
say this enough and then with travel if
you ever want to go on holiday or go
home to visit your family but you have
to keep up with a bit of studying you
know memorizing some flashcards or going
over a couple of lectures literally all
you have to take with you is this before
when I used to travel home to see my
family over the Christmas breaks I would
literally take two or three of these and
revise from them even though I'm such an
organized person and trust me I keep
everything filed very very well this is
still much less organized than my iPad
and this is much more difficult to look
through and find the information that I
really want so it's also just amazing
for trouble another amazing thing about
the iPad is not I know that I will never
ever ever lose my work the note-taking
app that I use notability which you can
watch an entire video on over here I
have on my iPad on my macbook and on my
iPhone all of my notes will forever be
stored online I will literally never
ever lose them and if I want to access
my notes anywhere in the world on any
device I can simply do that through
onedrive so not only are all of my notes
in one little thin device but I can
literally take them with me anywhere
that I want and I can access them from
anywhere that I want back in the
University of Toronto two weeks before
my final exam in third year I realized
that I had lost one of these little
paper bundles that I had made over the
course of that year and it was honestly
so devastating those notes were gone
forever and I had
literally relearn and we study so much
material because I couldn't go over it
quickly using my notes it was a horrible
experience and to know that that will
never ever happen with something like my
iPad is just very very reassuring and
the last thing that I want to say is
that the base model of these iPads the
64 gigabyte Wi-Fi version is honestly
enough in my opinion
you don't need data everywhere you go
Wi-Fi is pretty much everywhere and you
can almost always connect to it as a
student and then if you use your ipod
mostly for studying you know you're not
downloading Netflix movies or shows or
anything like that
then 64 gigabytes is honestly probably
going to be enough and all right guys I
think that pretty much wraps up this
video I hope you've gotten a better idea
of how it is that I use my iPad at
school and why it is such an important
purchase for me and how it's helped me
improve my life as a student if you
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you