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6med

company · in 17 sources (2017–2024)

Sources by year: 2017: 8 · 2018: 7 · 2024: 2

Also known as: SixMed, BMAT Crash Course, UKCAT Crash Course, Interview Crash Course

Also named in the threads: Ali's vlogs: medical elective, final year and junior-doctor life (2017) · Ali says that because he and his SixMed colleagues graduate next year (2018) and may not have time to run the courses, he is slowly putting the interview course content on YouTube. · Ali sorts out paperwork at the post office for the house he hopes to move into around July 2018, and says there will be more on it closer to the time.

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

BMAT (admissions) (7) · Singapore (2) · BMAT (exam) (3) · Imperial College London (2) · University of Cambridge (7) · Katherine (3) · spaced repetition (3) · Taimur Abdaal (2) · Paul (2) · Cambridge (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2024

  • 2024-05-14 · A Week in My Life · Vlog — Ali says he and James, his co-founder at SixMed, his first successful business, were both visionaries and never settled who would do what, so Ali ended up doing everything and James small amounts. — 00:06:19
  • 2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali: One idea on Ali's 2012 list, a website on BMAT preparation he could charge for, became his first successful online business, because he had expertise in helping people do well in the BMAT. — 00:02:20
    • In 2012 Ali ran his first BMAT course for about seven friends from the year below at his school, beaming a PowerPoint to the TV in his living room, and made perhaps £300. (hedged) — 00:02:46
    • In 2013, when he started medical school, Ali decided to go big with the BMAT course: he built a proper website and started marketing it nationally. — 00:02:46
    • Ali says that from 2014 to about 2019 he made around £150,000 a year from SixMed's classroom courses. — 00:03:26
    • Ali says the BMAT courses made around £6,000 in 2013, teaching about 150 students across five courses. (hedged) — 00:03:26
    • In the month of summer holidays between graduating in 2018 and starting work as a doctor, Ali filmed the BMAT Crash Course as an online course and hosted it on Podia. — 00:04:06
    • Ali says the online BMAT Crash Course made a few tens of thousands of pounds in its first year, 2018. — 00:04:52
    • The following year Ali partnered with his friend Akib on a UKCAT course, and the year after he filmed the Interview Crash Course for medical school interviews. — 00:04:52
    • At his medical admissions workshops Ali charged £50 to £100 per person for a classroom of 30, making £1,500 to £3,000 in a day of teaching he enjoyed. — 00:17:55
    • Ali's BMAT Crash Course Online sells for £99 or three payments of £39. — 00:35:19
    • Ali's early video on BMAT Section 1, made as a fifth-year Cambridge medical student and SixMed co-founder, gives free teaching, links his online BMAT course and has 225,000 views. — 00:48:52
  • …and 1 statement more in 2024 — all statements of 2024

2018

  • 2018-01-13 · My University Desk Setup - Cambridge Medical Student — Ali uses his desk setup for medical-school work, video editing, web design and development for 6med, and watching things online. — video description
  • 2018-03-21 · Q & A - 5,000 Subscribers! — Ali says he got into medical education to make some money: in his first year at university he ran a BMAT course for students at his school, then built a website for the BMAT Crash Course and marketed it nationally, and it grew beyond what he imagined. — 00:06:05
    • Ali says that after five years of SixMed courses he no longer cares about making money from education and enjoys teaching for its own sake, which is why he started his YouTube channel and gives unpaid teaching sessions. — 00:06:27
  • 2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali: Some students on Ali's BMAT crash course do not want their friends to know they took it, because they see themselves as competing. — 00:05:38
  • 2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali says SixMed made him a reasonable amount in the past but is declining: the Medic Portal advertises everywhere and has the private schools, new companies charge £20 a course, and at SixMed's size VAT and corporation tax rule such prices out. — 00:22:34
    • Ali says he does not really care about making money: he is comfortable with what SixMed has made for him and his family, and wants to focus on becoming a good doctor and making YouTube videos that give things away for free. — 00:23:04
    • Ali is about to run Google AdWords ads for SixMed's BMAT and UKCAT courses the next day (2 May 2018) to try to beat the Medic Portal. — 00:44:29
    • Ali says the Medic Portal pays about £3 a click on Google searches for BMAT Crash Course, the name of the BMAT course he made five years ago, and calls its own course BMAT Crash Course. — 00:45:00
  • 2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali bought a house because buying jointly with his brother, staying two years, a deposit from SixMed and a friend as housemate made it worthwhile; for most people he advocates renting. — 00:28:28
    • Another reason for starting YouTube was driving traffic to SixMed, which Ali had run for about four years and was bored of; he wanted to do medical education, and few doctors were on YouTube. — 00:53:42
  • 2018-05-14 · Monthly Favourites #4 - Ali Abdaal — recommendation: Ali recommends Revue as an email newsletter service because it gets out of the way and lets you focus on the writing; he has used many others, such as Mailchimp, while running SixMed. — 00:01:14
  • 2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali: Charlotte is coming over for a takeaway in a couple of hours, and she and Ali will discuss SixMed matters. — 00:12:31
  • …and 2 statements more in 2018 — all statements of 2018

2017

Also named in: Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A