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Cambridge

city · in 24 sources (2017–2020)

Sources by year: 2017: 11 · 2018: 12 · 2020: 1

Also named in the threads: Ali's final year at Cambridge medical school (2017) · Ali expects to get at least a foundation job in his top five, maybe his top ten. · In his first foundation year at Addenbrooke's Ali will do two general internal medicine rotations, said to be quite tough, then general surgery, so no rest in those 12 months. · Ali will do a Q&A with one of his friends doing graduate-entry medicine at Cambridge and asks viewers to send questions by email or Instagram.

Often together

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

Obstetrics and gynaecology (7) · University of Cambridge (20) · Imperial College London (4) · John Lewis (2) · Birmingham (3) · Ali Abdaal's mother (4) · Addenbrooke's Hospital Pantomime (4) · King's Lynn (3) · London (3) · Anki (4)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2020

2018

  • 2018-01-03 · Preparing for the SJT - Ali's Vlog #21 — Ali: Late in the evening Ali drives to the ADC, the local theatre in Cambridge, for the Cambridge University Show Choir's show. — 00:02:25
  • 2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali will be assigned to the East Anglia deanery for the Foundation Programme, his first choice because he loves Cambridge, and is now ranking its jobs. — 00:06:50
  • 2018-04-05 · Finding out my Foundation Year Jobs - Quick update — Ali thinks he got one of his top few foundation job choices: his first year at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge and his second at West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds. (hedged) — 00:00:29
  • 2018-04-12 · Motivation, Stress & Time Management - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Ali: To stay consistent Ali likes changing his work environment: in exam terms as an undergraduate in central Cambridge he went to a different library each day, about 20 in all. — 00:08:20
    • Ali says that even if you miss the university you wanted, such as Oxford, Cambridge or Imperial, you will be as happy as if you had gone there, a comforting thought that helped him cope with worrying about the future. — 00:12:09
  • 2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali's rough rule of thumb: for Oxford or Cambridge be at least in the top five of your year group; for medicine generally, in the top 10 or 20 percent. — 00:15:32
    • Ali says always take a fourth A-level if you have the chance: most Cambridge students have at least four, and having only three is unusual there. — 00:21:12
    • Ali advises applicants not to look at the admission statistics of Cambridge and Oxford colleges, which he calls pretty irrelevant. — 00:49:49
  • 2018-05-14 · Monthly Favourites #4 - Ali Abdaal — Ali learned a couple of days before the video that he passed his final-year exams at Cambridge, so he is pretty much officially a doctor. — 00:00:00
    • Ali has submitted his provisional registration to the General Medical Council and, barring calamity, expects to start working as a doctor in Cambridge from 23 July 2018. (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali officially starts as a junior doctor on 1 August 2018, but East Anglia, the region of Cambridge, has a week of shadowing first, so he will be in the hospital from 23 July. — 00:02:34
    • Whether to apply to aspirational or safe medical schools depends on whether the aim is medicine or one school: Ali aimed for Cambridge and applied to Cambridge, Imperial, UCL and one more; to become a doctor, safer options make sense. — 00:12:05
  • …and 33 statements more in 2018 — all statements of 2018

Also named in: Study With Me + 10 Productivity / Revision Tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #31

2017