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2020

2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali's two UK foundation years end with his last day of work on 4 August 2020; he will then be unemployed, because he has not applied for any training programme. — 00:03:10
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: In the UK a future specialist such as a plastic surgeon spends four or five years, two foundation years and then core training, before specialising; in the US doctors specialise straight after medical school. — 00:03:10
2020-07-13 · What We Learnt In 2 Years of Being Doctors - Deep Dive with Molly Hunt — Molly Hunt explains UK medical training: five or six years at university to qualify, then two years of foundation training, F1 and F2, before choosing a specialty. — 00:02:57
2020-07-13 · What We Learnt In 2 Years of Being Doctors - Deep Dive with Molly Hunt — Molly Hunt wishes she had known that doctors need not choose a specialty early: they can take time out or try different specialties before deciding what to train in. — 00:04:07
2020-07-13 · What We Learnt In 2 Years of Being Doctors - Deep Dive with Molly Hunt — Ali sometimes breaks rules at work and asks who made them, such as the rule against requesting ultrasound scans after 5pm because the department is closed. — 00:51:21
2020-07-17 · Day in the Life as a Doctor (Gynaecology) — recommendation: Ali: Whatever Ali does not understand about a patient's diagnosis, investigations or management, he asks the consultant or registrar after they have seen the patient; they are usually very happy to explain. — 00:02:13
2020-08-06 · My Last Day as a Doctor - Reflections — Ali has just finished his last day of work for quite a while, ending two years as a junior doctor in the UK's National Health Service. — 00:00:00
2020-08-06 · My Last Day as a Doctor - Reflections — Ali: After his two foundation years as a junior doctor, Ali has decided to take a break from medicine for at least a year. — 00:02:53
2020-08-06 · My Last Day as a Doctor - Reflections — Ali: A junior doctor makes a difference by learning how the hospital system works and occasionally bending its rules for patients, such as getting a worried woman scanned after the scan department closes at 5pm, Ali says, rather than swooping in to save the day like Derek Shepherd in Grey's Anatomy. — 00:13:21
2020-08-06 · My Last Day as a Doctor - Reflections — Ali: Early on Ali hesitated to suggest plans to his seniors; after eight months on obstetrics and gynaecology he is comfortable proposing a plan, and the senior doctor usually approves it. — 00:14:01

2019

2019-02-14 · Valentine’s Day Live Stream — Ali finds dealing with uncertainty the hardest part of being an F1 doctor: patients' families ask things he is not sure about, and he cannot ask his seniors about every little thing. — 00:10:42
2019-02-14 · Valentine’s Day Live Stream — Ali: Junior doctors at Ali's level earn between £30,000 and £36,000 a year, and he is about halfway through that range in his full-time job. — 00:31:35
2019-02-14 · Valentine’s Day Live Stream — Ali was surprised by how relaxed the F1 year is compared with how the media portrays it. — 00:36:48
2019-05-27 · My Geriatric Medicine Placement - Junior Doctor Vlog #02 — Ali, a junior doctor in Cambridge, looks back on his second placement as a junior doctor, on the geriatrics ward. — 00:00:00
2019-05-27 · My Geriatric Medicine Placement - Junior Doctor Vlog #02 — recommendation: Ali: On his first placement, cardiology in August 2018, Ali found negotiating scans hard; with experience he pre-empts the radiologist's questions, for example knowing the patient's creatinine before calling about a contrast CT. — 00:17:48
2019-05-27 · My Geriatric Medicine Placement - Junior Doctor Vlog #02 — Ali was on geriatrics from December 2018 to March 2019, the second placement of his first foundation year. — 00:27:17
2019-06-26 · How I use my iPad Pro as a Doctor — recommendation: Ali: For anything mission-critical, such as the treatment algorithm for a heart attack or a stroke, Ali uses an official resource such as the NICE guidelines or BMJ Best Practice. — 00:06:20
2019-08-02 · General Surgery - A Day in the Life - Junior Doctor Vlog — Ali: On a surgical team the consultants and registrars operate; the foundation doctors manage the medical problems of the team's patients. — 00:00:58
2019-08-02 · General Surgery - A Day in the Life - Junior Doctor Vlog — recommendation: Ali: To get a radiologist to prioritise an ultrasound, Ali says, come prepared with a story and understand how urgent each request is. — 00:08:56
2019-08-02 · General Surgery - A Day in the Life - Junior Doctor Vlog — Ali: Every Friday from one to two all F1 doctors have mandatory teaching, required for their educational portfolio. — 00:14:36
2019-08-02 · General Surgery - A Day in the Life - Junior Doctor Vlog — Ali: Very little of a doctor's day-to-day work needs extensive medical school knowledge, Ali says: the vast majority is being organised, efficient and quick. — 00:17:14
2019-08-02 · General Surgery - A Day in the Life - Junior Doctor Vlog — Ali: What matters in a doctor, Ali says, is having the basics down, knowing when to ask for help, being organised and communicating decently with families. — 00:17:43
2019-08-02 · General Surgery - A Day in the Life - Junior Doctor Vlog — Ali: Even with an unwell patient, Ali says, a junior doctor follows the standard systematic ABCDE approach rather than recalling knowledge. — 00:18:48
2019-08-02 · General Surgery - A Day in the Life - Junior Doctor Vlog — recommendation: Ali: With every drug on a smartphone, Ali says doctors need not memorise drug doses, mechanisms of action or interactions, though he calls knowing the adrenaline dose very useful in case the emergency setup is not ideal. — 00:19:24
2019-08-02 · General Surgery - A Day in the Life - Junior Doctor Vlog — recommendation: Ali says looking a drug up in the official British National Formulary app takes about five seconds, and every hospital has its own drug guidelines too. — 00:19:48
2019-08-02 · General Surgery - A Day in the Life - Junior Doctor Vlog — recommendation: Ali: When there is too much to do and too little time, Ali says, triage: decide what can wait till tomorrow and do the urgent things first. — 00:20:25
2019-10-31 · AirPods Pro Unboxing! — Ali: On Spotify Ali keeps a playlist for each of his years of medical school and beyond; the current one is FY2, foundation year two, his second year as a doctor. — 00:02:16

2018

2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali Abdaal (channel): The channel replies that doctors are paid in these training years from FY1 onwards. — creator comment
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali: Every UK medical graduate does the two-year Foundation Programme, FY1 and FY2, usually with three different rotations in each year. — 00:00:29
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali: After the two Foundation Programme years comes what Ali calls "the choice", basically between core medical training (CMT) and core surgical training (CST). — 00:01:00
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali: For the Foundation Programme the UK is split into regions: Scotland and Wales are each pretty much one region, and England is split into many. — 00:04:32
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali: For the Foundation Programme London is split into three regions: North West London, North East Central London and South Thames. — 00:04:53
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali: Foundation Programme applicants rank the regions in order of preference and are matched to one by their FPAS score, the foundation programme application score. — 00:05:22
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali: Once matched to a region, foundation applicants rank nearly all its jobs; each job is a list of six rotations, their order and the hospitals where one is based. — 00:05:51
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali: Foundation jobs within a region are allocated in order of each applicant's FPAS score. — 00:06:21
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali: Each year foundation applicants learn their region by about the first week of March, have about a month to rank the jobs, and know their hospitals and rotations by about April. — 00:06:50
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
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali applied for the Academic Foundation Programme but did not get a place. — 00:07:19
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali: In the Academic Foundation Programme one of the rotations, usually in FY2, is a research block of some sort. — 00:07:52
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali: Academic Foundation Programme applicants rank the research they would like to do, fill in an application form and have an interview, and the scores decide the order of allocation. — 00:07:52
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali applied for Academic Foundation Programmes in Essex, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire and in London, was interviewed at both, but scored too low and was put on the reserve list. — 00:07:52
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali: Missing the Academic Foundation Programme was a bit of a blow to Ali; he will instead do the normal Foundation Programme in Cambridge. — 00:08:35
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali calls the Academic Foundation Programme a good gateway into research or an academic career. — 00:08:35
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali: For an academic career with research or university teaching on the side, some academic experience helps; the Academic Foundation Programme is the first way in, but not the only one. — 00:09:04
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali says not having done an Academic Foundation Programme will put him at a slight disadvantage if he goes the academic route, but it is by no means the end of the world. — 00:09:04
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali: Without a four-month research block in the normal Foundation Programme, Ali hopes to get involved with research projects anyway. (hedged) — 00:09:34
2018-04-05 · Finding out my Foundation Year Jobs - Quick update — Ali: Just after midnight on Thursday 5 April 2018 the foundation job allocations come out, and Ali sees on Oriel, the NHS central system for job applications, that his is ready to view. — 00:00:00
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
2018-05-02 · Exam Study Tips for University & A-Level students - Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Ali advises clinical medical students to befriend the junior doctors (FY1s and FY2s) on placement; about to be an FY1 himself, he would love to teach students but would feel weird making the first move. — 00:09:53
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
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali will do his first foundation year in Cambridge and his second in Bury St Edmunds, both in the East Anglia region. — 00:09:14
2018-06-12 · Live Stream - Tuesday Evening Hangout — Ali starts his first foundation year on cardiology at Addenbrooke's Hospital: about a month in A&E, then three months in cardiology. — 00:16:09
2018-06-12 · Live Stream - Tuesday Evening Hangout — announcement: Ali: A video on the Academic Foundation Programme is coming out: Ali filmed it with someone who has written a book about the AFP, for release in July, when people start thinking about AFPs. — 00:36:42
2018-06-12 · Live Stream - Tuesday Evening Hangout — Ali: In foundation job applications, Ali says, all that matters is your decile within your own year group, so the top of a less competitive university ranks above someone lower down at a higher-ranked one. — 00:55:16
2018-06-12 · Live Stream - Tuesday Evening Hangout — Ali's F1 rota, received last week (week of 4 June 2018), averages about 47 hours a week, about 10 hours a day for five days, which he calls quite doable. — 01:03:09
2018-08-13 · Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) - Why should you apply? — announcement: Ali's Medical Mondays, a weekly series on very niche medical topics, kicks off a mini-series on preparing for the Academic Foundation Programme. — 00:00:00
2018-08-13 · Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) - Why should you apply? — Ali: The Academic Foundation Programme is an alternative to the normal two-year Foundation Programme after medical school: one of its six blocks becomes a research block, a kind of entry into the academic route. — 00:00:00
2018-08-13 · Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) - Why should you apply? — announcement: Ali: Since there is little information about the Academic Foundation Programme, Ali plans four videos: why to apply, the clinical emergency station, the critical appraisal station, and the personal interview with recommended resources. — 00:00:29
2018-08-13 · Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) - Why should you apply? — Ali: A few months before this video Ali sat down with surgeon Ankur Khajuria, who runs a course on preparing for the Academic Foundation Programme and has written a book about it. — 00:00:58
2018-08-13 · Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) - Why should you apply? — Ali got none of his Academic Foundation Programme choices: he was put on the reserve list for London and for EBH (Essex, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire). — 00:00:58
2018-08-13 · Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) - Why should you apply? — Ankur Khajuria was an Academic Foundation Programme trainee in London at Imperial College London, has been running a course for three years and is the founder and chairman of High Yield UK. — 00:01:27
2018-08-13 · Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) - Why should you apply? — Ali read Ankur Khajuria's book AFP Secrets a day before his London Academic Foundation Programme interview and thought it really good; had he found it sooner and put it into practice, he might have stood a better chance. (hedged) — 00:02:14
2018-08-13 · Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) - Why should you apply? — Ali says there is little information online about the Academic Foundation Programme: the best tips are held by people you have to know who got into it. — 00:02:14
2018-08-13 · Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) - Why should you apply? — Ankur Khajuria says the Academic Foundation Programme is for two groups: those who know they want academic medicine and have done research, as a stepping stone, and those unsure who want to try academic life. — 00:02:44
2018-08-13 · Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) - Why should you apply? — Ankur Khajuria says that in most deaneries the Academic Foundation Programme gives four months for a research project, usually in the second year; some regions, such as Oxford, give day release spread over the two years. — 00:03:38
2018-08-13 · Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) - Why should you apply? — Ankur Khajuria says that after the two Academic Foundation Programme years you can continue academic interests or follow just the clinical pathway, which is equally valid. — 00:03:38
2018-08-13 · Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) - Why should you apply? — Ali says Academic Foundation Programme applicants apply through FPAS, and an AFP post removes them from the normal Foundation Programme, though they do five normal rotations and one research rotation; Ankur Khajuria confirms. — 00:03:38
2018-08-13 · Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) - Why should you apply? — recommendation: Ankur Khajuria says there is nothing to lose from applying to the Academic Foundation Programme: a little more work on white-space answers and the interview, but a fantastic learning experience and interview practice for core and specialty training interviews. — 00:04:22
2018-08-13 · Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) - Why should you apply? — Ali did not get the Academic Foundation Programme but found both his interviews useful: he now knows what to expect in job interviews and what to work on, which he would otherwise not have learned before his ST1 or ST3 interview. — 00:04:51
2018-08-13 · Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) - Why should you apply? — recommendation: Ali is glad he applied to the Academic Foundation Programme though he did not get it, and encourages anyone thinking about it to apply: there is nothing to lose. — 00:04:51
2018-08-13 · Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) - Why should you apply? — Ankur Khajuria says missing an Academic Foundation Programme post is not the end of the world and does not stop you pursuing a career in academia: there are many other opportunities. — 00:04:51
2018-08-13 · Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) - Why should you apply? — Ankur Khajuria says the integrated academic pathway (Academic Foundation Programme, Academic Clinical Fellowship, then clinical lectureships) can be entered at any time: without an AFP you can apply for an ACF, without an ACF for a PhD and then a senior lecturer role. — 00:05:21
2018-08-13 · Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) - Why should you apply? — Ali sums up that not getting into the Academic Foundation Programme is not a big deal, but having it helps if you want an academic career; Ankur Khajuria agrees. — 00:05:45
2018-08-13 · Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) - Why should you apply? — Ali's Academic Foundation Programme interview in EBH was personal: questions about his application, the white-space questions and why he wanted to do the AFP. — 00:06:14
2018-08-13 · Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) - Why should you apply? — Ali's London Academic Foundation Programme interview had two stations: critical appraisal of an abstract read for half an hour beforehand, and clinical emergencies, a scenario as an FY1 in A&E with several patients discussed with consultants. — 00:06:14
2018-08-13 · Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) - Why should you apply? — announcement: Ali says the next video in his Academic Foundation Programme series, on preparing for the clinical emergency station, will come out soon. — 00:06:48
2018-08-19 · My first evening shift - Junior Doctor Vlog #01 — Ali opens season 2 of his vlog: he has graduated from medical school, is a few days into his job as an FY1 junior doctor and is placed in Cambridge for the first year. — video description
2018-08-19 · My first evening shift - Junior Doctor Vlog #01 — Ali: An F1 doctor's day job is the ward round with the team, then jobs such as discharge summaries, transfer letters to the adjacent cardiothoracic hospital and referrals to other teams. — 00:03:30
2018-08-19 · My first evening shift - Junior Doctor Vlog #01 — Ali: From 6 to 9 pm four F1 doctors cover all the medical wards of Ali's hospital, keeping patients safe until they hand over to the more experienced night team at 9 pm. — 00:04:29
2018-08-19 · My first evening shift - Junior Doctor Vlog #01 — Ali: An F1 has a lot of admin, discharge letters and electronic paperwork, but making decisions on the evening shift showed Ali he does vaguely know what he is doing. — 00:17:16
2018-08-20 · Studying Medicine in Eastern Europe - A comprehensive guide — Abdullah's medicine course in Bulgaria lasts six years: two pre-clinical years, three clinical years and a final-year internship that equals F1 in the UK and is recognised by the GMC. — 00:00:58
2018-08-20 · Studying Medicine in Eastern Europe - A comprehensive guide — Ali: Two F1 doctors in Ali's current batch in Cambridge are from Poland. — 00:06:53
2018-08-20 · Studying Medicine in Eastern Europe - A comprehensive guide — Abdullah: Graduates of Bulgarian medical schools have done a sixth-year internship that the GMC recognises as F1, though it is not exactly the same, so they can apply straight for F2 jobs in the UK. — 00:07:19
2018-08-20 · Studying Medicine in Eastern Europe - A comprehensive guide — Abdullah: Graduates from Europe could apply for F1, but Abdullah is not sure many F1 posts are available to international students, who usually go straight into F2. (hedged) — 00:07:19
2018-08-24 · Answering personal questions - 50k subs Q&A — Ali hopes to do F1 and F2, his first two years as a junior doctor, and then maybe take a little time out to explore, perhaps doing some tech or more video work. (hedged) — 00:02:16
2018-08-24 · Answering personal questions - 50k subs Q&A — Ali: Junior doctors are supposed to get half an hour's break for every four hours worked, so a standard eight-hour shift has about an hour's break. — 00:09:58
2018-08-24 · Answering personal questions - 50k subs Q&A — Ali calls an F1 doctor's salary pretty decent: he and most of his friends earn about 30,000 to 34,000 a year before tax. — 00:10:27
2018-08-27 · Clinical Emergency Scenarios - AFP Interview preparation · Academic Foundation Programme — announcement: Ali's Medical Mondays video is the second in his mini-series on preparing for the Academic Foundation Programme. — 00:00:00
2018-08-27 · Clinical Emergency Scenarios - AFP Interview preparation · Academic Foundation Programme — Ali: A few months before the video Ali interviewed his friend Ankur Khajuria, who did the Academic Foundation Programme, wrote a book about it and runs a course on it. — 00:00:29
2018-08-27 · Clinical Emergency Scenarios - AFP Interview preparation · Academic Foundation Programme — Ankur Khajuria says applying for the Academic Foundation Programme is a good stepping stone to finals preparation: at Imperial his finals matched the techniques he used to prepare for the AFP. — 00:01:34
2018-08-27 · Clinical Emergency Scenarios - AFP Interview preparation · Academic Foundation Programme — Ankur Khajuria says the Academic Foundation Programme clinical emergency station usually gives a couple of scenarios to prioritise with an ABCDE approach: one or two quite unwell patients and one who is not unwell but may have an angry relative, to test communication. — 00:02:23
2018-08-27 · Clinical Emergency Scenarios - AFP Interview preparation · Academic Foundation Programme — Ankur Khajuria says Academic Foundation Programme interviewers need you to be clinically sound, because an academic trainee has four fewer clinical months in which to build competencies. — 00:04:18
2018-08-27 · Clinical Emergency Scenarios - AFP Interview preparation · Academic Foundation Programme — Ali: The feedback sheet from Ali's London Academic Foundation Programme interview had a mark (good, satisfactory or excellent) for awareness of the team structure. — 00:04:47
2018-08-27 · Clinical Emergency Scenarios - AFP Interview preparation · Academic Foundation Programme — recommendation: Ali says friends who got into the Academic Foundation Programme found the Oxford Handbook for the Foundation Programme really good on managing emergencies. — 00:09:27
2018-08-27 · Clinical Emergency Scenarios - AFP Interview preparation · Academic Foundation Programme — Ali says he was not at that level of practice for his Academic Foundation Programme interview, and for his next interview he wants to practise in front of the mirror and the camera. — 00:10:25
2018-08-27 · Clinical Emergency Scenarios - AFP Interview preparation · Academic Foundation Programme — announcement: Ali says a few more videos on preparing for the Academic Foundation Programme are coming. — 00:11:24
2018-10-13 · How to be a good junior doctor (ft. That Medic) — That Medic (Mohammed) is a second-year foundation doctor working in London who also makes YouTube films about medicine, travel and lifestyle. — 00:00:58
2018-10-13 · How to be a good junior doctor (ft. That Medic) — recommendation: That Medic says an F1 is the least experienced doctor in the hospital, so should seek feedback from everyone, nurses included, actively or through the Foundation Programme's case reflections and case-based discussions. — 00:02:48
2018-10-13 · How to be a good junior doctor (ft. That Medic) — recommendation: That Medic says many F1 questions can be answered with a bit of research in a book or trusted websites, so a good F1 seeks advice but also suggests a solution, the best way to learn. — 00:04:59
2018-10-13 · How to be a good junior doctor (ft. That Medic) — recommendation: Ali sums up the advice for junior doctors asking seniors: take the initiative and offer a default option they can correct, rather than just asking the question. — 00:06:46
2018-10-13 · How to be a good junior doctor (ft. That Medic) — Ali says doctors are in charge of the care of the patient at hand, so patient safety is his number one priority, above the bed crisis and other pressures. — 00:10:46