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Obstetrics and gynaecology

concept · in 8 sources (2017–2018)

The medical specialty of pregnancy, childbirth and the female reproductive system, which Ali considered as a career in 2017.

Sources by year: 2017: 2 · 2018: 6

Also known as: obs and gynae, O&G

Also named in the threads: Ali's final year at Cambridge medical school (2017) · 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.

Often together

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

Cambridge (7) · Psychiatry (2) · Addenbrooke's Hospital (2) · University of Oxford (3) · University of Cambridge (6) · United Kingdom (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2018

  • 2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali says obstetrics and gynaecology is the specialty he is currently interested in. — 00:02:42
    • Obstetrics and gynaecology is a run-through specialty: after FY1 and FY2 a doctor applies to ST1, and it goes up to ST7, after which one can become a consultant. — 00:02:42
  • 2018-03-21 · Q & A - 5,000 Subscribers! — Ali's favourite specialty for now is obstetrics and gynaecology: a mix of medicine and surgery, helping babies into the world, with mostly young, healthy patients facing a happy event. — 00:04:20
  • 2018-04-05 · Finding out my Foundation Year Jobs - Quick update — Ali: In his second foundation year at West Suffolk Hospital Ali will rotate through general psychiatry, obstetrics and gynaecology, which he thinks he wanted, and stroke medicine. — 00:01:16
  • 2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali wants to go into obstetrics and gynaecology because it is really fun, a good mix of medicine and surgery, with generally young and healthy patients. — 00:39:21
  • 2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali plans, for now, to take the MRCOG. — 00:19:53
    • Ali leans towards obstetrics and gynaecology: a fun mix of medicine and surgery, mostly young and healthy patients, and the placement he most enjoyed in fifth year. — 00:21:12
  • 2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali is leaning towards obstetrics and gynaecology as a specialty, though not quite sure; before that he was into plastic surgery. (hedged) — 00:07:51
    • Ali became interested in obstetrics and gynaecology because it was the placement he enjoyed most in medical school, he did a couple of projects in it, and people doing it in Cambridge seemed to like it. — 00:10:50

2017

  • 2017-09-22 · Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Baking - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #06 — announcement: Ali: The society's first event, in about two weeks, is to be a talk Ali gives to younger medical students on systematic history taking in obstetrics and gynaecology. (hedged) — 00:00:50
    • Ali calls obstetrics and gynaecology a pretty great specialty, a nice mix of medicine and surgery, and says he realised he liked it after his placement in it the year before. — 00:00:50
    • Ali says he gets weird looks whenever he tells people he might want to become a gynaecologist or an obstetrician. — 00:00:50
  • 2017-10-12 · My first lecture for medical students - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #09 — Ali: At 5pm Ali gives a talk on systematic history taking in obstetrics and gynaecology to students in the year below. — 00:00:00
    • Ali calls his talk the presentation he wishes someone had given him a year earlier: a very prescriptive approach to systematically taking an obstetrics and gynaecology history. — 00:00:45