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what is up guys karma medic here and
welcome back to another dose it is
finally here in my previous vlog my
medical school oscar exam got postponed
to some indeterminate time in the future
that day is tomorrow let me show you
this is what we have been up to for the
last couple of weeks and then tomorrow
is oski day this is the final med school
oski like the biggest most notorious
hard bad scary anxiety-inducing exam
is tomorrow
and when i tell you that i have lost the
will to live and i've lost the world
study for this exam like i'm
i'm so done i'm over it i'm over it
you're done kid you're done so yeah
honestly these last couple of days have
just been brutal boring studying and i'm
very very over it which is why today i
actually don't plan on doing that much
studying at all i've got a list of a
couple of things that i still need to go
over and then after finishing going
through this list i just want to
practice sort of the main big four exams
abdominal exam cardiovascular
respiratory and cranial nerves and upper
and lower limb motor and sensory exams
because those are very very likely to
come up and i feel like if i just run
through them one more time i'll be in
the best position i can be to do well in
them and that's pretty much it after
that i'm going to the gym i'm going to
play video games with my sister i'm
going to rest and relax because i'm over
it i just want this to be finished and i
need to chill out here's what we're
gonna do we're not gonna think
we're just gonna do because if we stop
and think about having to study this
exam for another day it's not gonna be
fun all right so we're literally not
gonna think and we're just gonna get
started with the day i have got some
lovely strawberries i'm about to go get
some coffee and let's do this
all right let's do this phone on silent
all right
i'm throwing this on my bed and again
similar to last time when i was
preparing for oski's in my fourth year
which if you haven't seen that vlog i
personally really like it you can check
it out somewhere up over here um i'm
using this book kind of as my like north
star it is totally falling apart now
that i want to show you it's not but
basically all the pages are like loose
and like different parts are falling out
i've made good good use of this book so
the first thing on my list that i want
to learn about is advanced directives
decisions you can make in advance about
your treatment in the case that you were
to lose capacity in the future and not
be able to make those types of decisions
for yourself so i'm going to read up on
that
and then move on
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it's a mother's day today in the arab
world so we sent my mom some flowers and
a card and she just received them and uh
we were saying a quick happy mother's
day
anyways back to work all right so it's
been about an hour of studying and
everything on this first little sticky
note is finished which is great news
we can get rid of that and throw it away
and now i've got a second sticky note
mostly containing things that i didn't
even know were gonna show up on our exam
until my good friend georgina kindly
informed me about them yesterday so
that's what we're gonna go through right
now so one of these things is a c-spine
x-ray or interpretation of a c-spine
x-ray so i'm just going to watch a
random youtube video on that now if
you're wondering what this thing is here
on the the side screen on my ipad over
here this is a video game that i have
running in the background doing
something very menial or not very click
intensive basically so i can stay sane
and make my time spent at this desk
studying a little bit more enjoyable
it's kind of like my motivation to sit
here and study is every 10 minutes or so
i click about a little bit here play a
tiny bit of this game and it's kind of
what's getting me through this uh this
last day so that's what that is anyways
without further ado let's watch this
video and take some notes
genuinely i
cannot stress this enough if there's
something you don't understand or
something you're learning for the first
time i genuinely find youtube videos are
the best way to do it these are people
who have already learned the thing
you're trying to learn and are now
trying to explain it in an easy to
understand way with all kinds of nice
memory hooks images diagrams etc this is
often so much easier than your lecture
which is like a 50 minute lecture i'm
sure there are many 50-minute lectures
covering cervical spine x-rays but you
know they'll go into lots of detail
they'll show a lot of research and the
history of coming to where we are now i
just want to know how to interpret
spinal x-ray uh c-spine x-ray so this is
this is what i need all right so i'm
gonna present this like it's in my exam
today i'm looking at a c-spine x-ray for
patient john smith a 55 year old man
who's coming to the hospital
all right so history taking and
communication stations are only two
parts of the osce exam we also have
things like examinations procedural
skills and
assessment stations so all those involve
doing practical things with our hands
talking to patients and examining them
using things like a nice little
stethoscope and a tendon hammer also
please just ignore whatever the hell is
going on here my exam's tomorrow i've
don't have time to clean my room right
now so if you remember from some of my
previous vlogs we had sonic the hedgehog
this big fluffy toy that i could examine
and it was actually really helpful but
kind of threw him in the bin so
he's gone but instead what we do have is
mr chair i'm gonna stay nope all right
let's get some tape found it all right
mr chair you have to stay put bud so mr
chair is a 24 year old gentleman who is
presented to the emergency department
with acute shortness of breath so i'm
going to examine him and put a mark team
up on the screen and hopefully not miss
anything and practice my examination
skills so now what's funny guys is when
we first started preparing for oski's
back in second year actually you might
know this already if you used to watch
my videos back then i used to complain a
lot about how the six minute timer that
we have in order to complete these
examinations is super short and how
could we possibly do everything we need
to do in the six minutes that they give
us and now when we practice these exams
it's finally your medical students we
get through them with like a minute to
spare sometimes even a minute and a half
depending on the examination which is
absolutely crazy to think about but i
guess it's a testament to just show like
practice makes perfect keep working on
something you'll get better at it etc
etc anyways i'm procrastinating from
doing this examination so let's just get
started hi good morning my name is
nasser and i'm one of the final euro
doctors here in the emergency department
can i start by confirming your name and
your age please yes hello my name is mr
chair and i'm 24 years old nice to meet
you mr chair today what i've been asked
to do is perform an examination of your
lungs this is going to involve me having
a look a listen and feel of your hands
your face and your chest area would that
be okay yes that would be fine
all right thank you very much i'm just
going to mention a couple of things to
my examiner as we go along if that's
okay
well thank you very much mr chair that
brings us to the end of the examination
um you can put on your t-shirt now thank
you very much for your time great so
we've got a minute and a half left on
the timer um assuming i didn't miss
anything big which is always possible
let's go through the mark scheme and
have a look all right so
introduction patient details washes
hands explains the exam
ah
cervical lymphadenopathy so you have to
check for the lymph nodes from the back
of the patient you can feel for the
supraclavicular nodes um and then come
up to the cervical chain submandibular
pre-auricular or sorry post-auricular
and pre-auricular as well don't forget
to check the lymph nodes
oh vocal fremitus 99 99 99. so when you
listen to the patient's chest in all the
different areas you're supposed to
listen again and ask them to say 99 99
99 99 99 99 and this is a test called
vocal fremitis and if you have a
consolidation or a mass in the chest
then you'll the sound will transmit
better and so you'll hear the 99 louder
over the areas that do have
consolidation versus the ones that do
not that's what that test is for all
right so i remembered pretty much
everything i just didn't remember to do
vocal framitis 9999 and to check the
lymph nodes in my humble opinion this
would be an easy pass of the station and
then also of course you have to
summarize your findings report back to
your senior et cetera et cetera but in
terms of missing those two things it's
okay it's not the end of the world
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all right guys so basically
what the deal is is that with every
examination i do i am bound to forget a
couple of things which is fine it's okay
but i want to minimize the number of
things that i am forgetting and so
that's what this practice is for but big
picture for getting a couple of things
in the exam is okay it's not going to be
the end of the world certainly not going
to fail you i want to forget as few
things as possible many hours later all
right guys it is several hours later
we're about to hit 1pm i just wrote down
from memory all of the sort of major
steps and special tests that are
involved for all the musculoskeletal
exams hip knee shoulder ankle hands and
then also peripheral arterial and
peripheral venous disease exams and i
feel ready i feel good um honestly i
don't think i'm gonna do much else
study-wise for the rest of the day i'm
gonna ask kenji and georgina if either
of them are down to practice a couple of
histories just to kind of practice it
one more time the day before but other
than that i think i'm done it is an
absolutely beautiful sunny day today um
so i would like to get to enjoy that at
least a little bit i'm going to go to
the gym and also probably play some
video games with my sister in the
evening and yeah just kind of unwind
relax and calm down before exam time
hits so i'm gonna go grab some food get
some lunch and yeah we'll just continue
on with the day try and unwind and relax
and tomorrow is tomorrow now obviously
before the exam we need to be looking
our best so that means a clean shave and
then some nice formal clothes and a
shirt so yeah i need to get rid of all
this fluff trim up these lines a little
bit and let's just do it
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now it did just hit me that i'm actually
going to be wearing a mask the entire
time throughout the exam
so i guess we'll make that much of a
difference but if you look good then you
feel good and it helps with overall
confidence and everything so i think
it's so worth it
the fact that that camera hasn't fallen
is a bit of a miracle
all right and just like that we are done
let's go get some food all right
so got ourselves some lunch
and we're going to be watching the new
episodes of top boy which have just been
as you all know this is my favorite
eating utensil
by miles makes everything much more
comfy even though it makes me look like
a grandpa but it is what it is all right
let's kick back relax
and enjoy the show
spoilers by the way major spoilers for
the show
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hey man how's it going bro good bro how
are you
there's some good clearance like at the
back hi good afternoon my name is nasa
karma i'm one of the doctors here can i
start by confirming your name and your
age please uh yeah it's paul mauston and
i'm 65.
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all right on my way to the gym
look at this beautiful
weather we've been having here for the
last week fortunately i've mostly been
cooped up at home starting preparing for
this exam but i cannot wait to take
advantage of this once exams are over
going on another ski trip but after that
anyways let's get in this one last
session of de-stress exercise sweat
coming on just resting and relaxing my
head and i'll see you in a bit
peace
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oh that was good
that was really good
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it's the morning golf
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all right guys this is it i'm just
waiting outside the location which is
pretty damn beautiful if i can taste it
myself got myself a quick coffee and my
general plan is to go in at the last
possible second so i can sit out here
and listen to my music and de-stress as
much as i can so that's what i'm gonna
do for five minutes and then head inside
for the exam and then quarantine period
and they're gonna take our electronics
so i won't be able to film much well
catch up afterwards i'll see you later
oh my god oh my god
oh
my
god okay so that's day one finished so
yeah i'm not gonna lie that was a lot
more complicated than i thought it would
be it was not as straightforward as
previous oscars that we had and in fact
i think they deliberately tried to trick
us going into a respiratory exam station
which then turned out to be an ate
station so yeah and then there were
other stations where the wording was
very unclear and a lot of students
complained about like
misunderstanding like what they wanted
us to examine or what they wanted us to
do so and they came in and took feedback
from all of us about how they can change
the wording moving forward so could have
done a better job but it's all right
wasn't feeling too great about two out
of the six stations that we had today
and then there's another six stations
tomorrow um but once i got the written
feedback from the examiners i think it
kind of put me at ease um the comments
there were a lot better than i thought i
had done in the examination so it should
be okay anyways i mean that's basically
it exam one down one more to go tomorrow
so we show up at eight in the morning
then we have to quarantine until 11 a.m
and then we write the exam and then we
have to quarantine again until 1 pm so
that other students on other campuses
around
london are not out of the quarantine
whilst we're out of the coin we can
share information or whatever so a lot
of waiting around but i think it's fine
i think it's fine that's the end of my
ramble about this exam i'm heading home
i'm going to do just a bit of practicing
on prescribing because that didn't come
up today maybe review one exam or
something but other than that i'm gonna
sit down and play video games in the
works that was very fun yesterday
anyways i'll see you guys at home
hello team
i'm at home
turn on the couch
just unwinding debriefing and chilling
relaxing for a little bit i'm gonna hop
on a call with kenji and georgina just
to debrief about the stations that we
did today in the exam um talk about them
a little bit and get what we need to say
off of our chest and then probably do a
bit of prescribing practice and i think
i'm gonna call it there i'll pick up the
camera again when i start that debrief
call do a little bit of stuff but man
it's actually it's hitting me that this
is almost over like med school it's
almost over final exam
madness madness mantis all right see you
in a bit
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all right paige
pdf page 32 or book page 32
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all right let's see guys like i said
before any more studying would have made
absolutely no difference today
and i think any more studying is going
to make absolutely no difference
tomorrow so it's going to call it here
it's 5 p.m i'm gonna chill relax pack my
bags so i'm ready to fly out thursday
early in the morning and so i can go out
celebrate tomorrow
um in the evening with everybody and not
have to pack and yeah that's what i'm
gonna do for the day so almost there
see you guys in a bit
peace all right so i'm going skiing
tomorrow well after tomorrow with about
10 of my friends from high school to
celebrate finishing medical school
hopefully finishing middle school given
that everything goes well tomorrow
touch wood and yeah let's pack cue the
time-lapse
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all right so all packed everything is
pretty much there i just need to put in
a couple last things tomorrow and now me
ignoring you sit down and play elden
ring for a couple of hours relax enjoy
the night
and that is it i will see you guys
tomorrow
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good morning and welcome to oski day
number two i'm heading to a different
location today
i'm on the train
um for the second part of those cases
they're spreading us out
let me wait for this train to pass so
they're spreading us out across all the
different locations of king's college
london so that it's as fair as possible
and we each we all see different
examiners and we are with different
groups and things like that so that is
just a fair exam across the board new
video getting released tomorrow so
prepping that instagram card right now
and yeah just trying to take it easy and
chill relax as much as i can before i go
into the exam i'm a little bit early so
i'll have some time to kill and i'll see
you guys in a bit
filming
so we are back on campus guys campus
yeah to be honest i think today didn't
go as well as yesterday i think there
are a couple two stations where i find
them quite challenging and i don't think
i got the intended diagnosis in the end
um but hopefully my communication skills
and everything else they're questioning
history taking whatever will make up for
it but anyways i'm not gonna think about
that i've just had a meal with aaron and
georgina i'll put some pictures up over
here and now i'm going to guys bar which
is just over there to meet a couple
other friends have a couple drinks relax
debrief
[ __ ] soak this in
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all right so it's actually been about a
week since the last clip that you guys
saw i forgot to close off the vlog and
i've only just realized that i haven't
done that yet during this time i've
actually gone skiing in austria and then
i've come back and i started surgery
this morning i had to wake up at five
o'clock in the morning it's all been
very hectic but that's a vlog for
another day i just want to say thank you
for taking the time to watch this video
i hope you enjoyed it and if you did
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i'll catch you in the next one peace
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