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2018

2018-01-10 · Euthanasia - Medical Ethics and Law at the end of life — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, presents the third video of his medical ethics series, on euthanasia and medical ethics at the end of life. — 00:00:00
2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, presents the fourth video of his medical ethics mini-series for medicine interviews, on legalising assisted suicide. — 00:00:00
2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — announcement: Ali says a few more videos of his medical ethics series and a few more about interviews are coming, before the channel moves into more uncharted territory. — 00:26:11
2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — announcement: Ali and Abi, sixth-year medical students at Cambridge University, present a video introducing the ethical and legal issues raised by the Charlie Gard case. — video description
2018-02-17 · Medicine Application - No offers? — recommendation: Ali advises reapplicants to medicine to go through every part of their application with friends who got in and students in the years above, and ask where the weak points were: personal statement, work experience or interviews. — 00:02:33
2018-02-17 · Medicine Application - No offers? — recommendation: a guest: The same student advises rejected applicants to ask for feedback and send their personal statement around, and not to be put off: medicine is a lifelong commitment, so wanting it in 2017 means still wanting it in 2018. — 00:16:06
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali: To strengthen his personal statement over the summer, Ali volunteered and learned close-up magic, which made an interesting line item. — 00:21:27

2017

2017-09-23 · How to write a Medicine Personal Statement - 13 tips — recommendation: a guest: One student advises against starting a medicine personal statement with the introduction, the hardest part, which this student wrote after the conclusion. — 00:00:24
2017-09-23 · How to write a Medicine Personal Statement - 13 tips — recommendation: a guest: Another student says writing a personal statement is not a fluid process but a matter of chopping and changing, and that it is fine not to write it in one go. — 00:01:00
2017-09-23 · How to write a Medicine Personal Statement - 13 tips — recommendation: a guest: A student advises not limiting a first draft to the character limit: write everything, then edit down, so nothing important is cut. — 00:01:30
2017-09-23 · How to write a Medicine Personal Statement - 13 tips — a guest: The medicine personal statement has a limit of 4,000 characters. — 00:01:30
2017-09-23 · How to write a Medicine Personal Statement - 13 tips — recommendation: a guest: A student advises starting the personal statement early, because you will draft and redraft it and many readers will give conflicting advice that takes time to reconcile. — 00:01:52
2017-09-23 · How to write a Medicine Personal Statement - 13 tips — recommendation: Marcus advises making the personal statement personal so it stands out, opening with an anecdote or the reason you want to do medicine to catch the reader off guard and set the scene. — 00:02:14
2017-09-23 · How to write a Medicine Personal Statement - 13 tips — recommendation: Chidera says applicants, especially for an intercalated course, apply to be scientists as well as doctors, so the personal statement should show a love of the science behind medicine. — 00:02:40
2017-09-23 · How to write a Medicine Personal Statement - 13 tips — announcement: Chidera will upload a more detailed video on the personal statement on Chidera's own channel. — 00:02:40
2017-09-23 · How to write a Medicine Personal Statement - 13 tips — recommendation: Shalin advises putting only your top ten strengths in the personal statement and keeping the rest for interviews, since the statement is one of several things used to decide who is interviewed. — 00:03:09
2017-09-23 · How to write a Medicine Personal Statement - 13 tips — recommendation: Marcus suggests signposting in the personal statement: mention a point without explaining it fully so interviewers ask about it, and prepare an answer in advance. — 00:03:35
2017-09-23 · How to write a Medicine Personal Statement - 13 tips — recommendation: Jake's number one advice: put nothing in the personal statement you are not prepared to defend; if you say you have read something or done some experience, be ready to talk about it. — 00:04:32
2017-09-23 · How to write a Medicine Personal Statement - 13 tips — recommendation: Jake advises against a personal statement that is just a list of activities: say what each taught you, such as leadership and teamwork from the Duke of Edinburgh's Award or time management from a sport. — 00:05:12
2017-09-23 · How to write a Medicine Personal Statement - 13 tips — recommendation: Jake says a personal statement should say what work experience taught you about communication, teamwork or care, and how it relates to a future medical career, rather than count the operations you watched. — 00:05:34
2017-09-23 · How to write a Medicine Personal Statement - 13 tips — Ali has read at least 100 personal statements emailed to him over five years, and his almost invariable criticism is that they do not flow: each paragraph stands apart with no cohesive narrative. — 00:06:06
2017-09-23 · How to write a Medicine Personal Statement - 13 tips — recommendation: Ali advises making the personal statement flow with connecting phrases that lead the reader through your thinking, for example opening a paragraph with why you arranged work experience, even if that costs a line such as a Duke of Edinburgh bronze award. — 00:07:22
2017-09-23 · How to write a Medicine Personal Statement - 13 tips — recommendation: a guest: A student recommends giving the personal statement to friends and family, including people who studied English or art, and handing it to as diverse a range of readers as possible. — 00:07:36
2017-09-23 · How to write a Medicine Personal Statement - 13 tips — recommendation: a guest: A student says you will get conflicting advice on the personal statement and must decide which changes to make so it stays true to your own reasons for medicine; this student kept a paragraph teachers suggested cutting. — 00:08:06
2017-09-23 · How to write a Medicine Personal Statement - 13 tips — Jake says the importance of the personal statement is easy to overstate: having tutored, he has seen tens to hundreds of them and they all take a similar shape, though he thought his own was original. — 00:09:03
2017-09-23 · How to write a Medicine Personal Statement - 13 tips — announcement: Ali says many more videos are coming in the next few weeks to months on the BMAT, interviews (specifically the Oxbridge interview) and personal statements. — 00:09:32
2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — announcement: Ali says more videos of his medicine application series are coming over the next few weeks, mostly about interviews. — 00:08:50
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — recommendation: a guest: A student prepared for medicine interviews by writing down every question they might ask and shortlisting the work experience to talk about, such as a year as a healthcare assistant. — 00:01:01
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — announcement: Ali says more videos are coming in the next few weeks on specific parts of medicine interviews, such as answering common questions and Oxbridge interviews. — 00:12:41
2017-10-15 · Interview Tips - How to answer "Why Medicine?" — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, gives his take on answering "Why medicine?" in medicine interviews, seven tips from medical students and three example answers. — 00:00:00
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — announcement: Ali says a dedicated video of tips for the Oxbridge interview is coming out within the next few days. — 00:00:50
2017-10-21 · Speaking on Live TV - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #10 — Chris, president of the Imperial College Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Society (as heard), says the panel runs the Bangladeshi British TV show so people without usual access to medicine application information learn about the personal statement, UKCAT, BMAT and interviews. — 00:01:11
2017-10-24 · 6 tips for Medicine MMIs - Multiple Mini Interviews — announcement: Ali says many more videos are coming about medicine interviews and other parts of the medicine application, alongside occasional vlogs about life as a medical student. — 00:03:42
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, presents tips for the Oxbridge medicine interview from nine medical students. — 00:00:00
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — recommendation: a guest: A student advises revising science and maths for the Oxbridge interview: know the A-level chemistry and biology syllabus and its principles well; complicated concepts are needed only if your personal statement mentions them. — 00:03:53
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — recommendation: a guest: The student's Cambridge interview was about the sciences, not why medicine or why this college; the student advises focusing on science but having your personal statement and extracurriculars ready, as some colleges ask about them. — 00:11:20
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — announcement: Ali says many more videos are coming over the next few weeks on interviews specifically and on the medicine application process. — 00:13:08
2017-11-02 · Clinical School Pantomime audition - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #11 — announcement: Ali says more videos are coming about life as a final-year medical student and about applying to medicine. — 00:05:17
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — announcement: Ali presents tips from eight medical students on answering "What did you learn on your work experience?", mock answers from himself and Kenny, and his own somewhat cynical view of work experience. — 00:01:07
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — a guest: That student wrote and spoke about an operation they watched, where scrub nurses, theatre technicians and doctors worked cohesively, which taught them the importance of teamwork for patient care. — 00:03:47
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — recommendation: a guest: A medical student advises reminding interviewers what your work experience involved, since it is not a given that they have read your personal statement. — 00:05:48
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — Ali says the only useful thing from work experience is talking to a patient or seeing a good doctor-patient interaction that moves you, and calls that a romanticised story put in personal statements and interviews. — 00:15:49
2017-11-15 · Medicine Interview Tips - Dealing with Nerves — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, presents 12 tips for applicants who are nervous about their medicine interviews. — 00:00:00
2017-11-15 · Medicine Interview Tips - Dealing with Nerves — recommendation: a guest: The speaker advises giving even your parents your personal statement to question you on, as they will probably ask many of the same predictable questions interview tutors would. (hedged) — 00:07:40
2017-11-15 · Medicine Interview Tips - Dealing with Nerves — recommendation: a guest: The student advises reading through your personal statement a few times so you know what you will have to defend and show the interviewers. — 00:08:36
2017-11-15 · Medicine Interview Tips - Dealing with Nerves — announcement: Ali says many more videos are coming about medicine interview preparation and other things, alongside his vlogs about life as a medical student. — 00:10:05
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, answers questions viewers sent in about the Oxford and Cambridge medicine interviews. — 00:00:00
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says his answers on personal-statement detail, recent news and structuring answers apply to all medicine interviews and MMIs, the rest being quite Oxbridge-specific. — video description
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — recommendation: Ali says an applicant who mentions diabetes should know its types, management and challenges, but not its exact pathophysiology or molecular mechanisms, which medical school teaches. — 00:04:04
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — recommendation: Ali's rule of thumb: for anything your personal statement mentions, such as dialysis or diabetes, read its Wikipedia article and be able to talk about it if asked. — 00:04:35
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — recommendation: Ali advises applicants who mention schizophrenia, depression or anxiety in their personal statement to be ready for scientific questions about it. — 00:08:25
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — announcement: Ali says more videos are coming about general medicine interview topics, alongside vlogs about life as a medical student. — 00:21:59
2017-11-29 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "Why should we choose you?" — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, tackles the common medicine interview question "We have 10,000 applicants, why should we take you?" in his series of interview advice videos. — 00:00:00
2017-11-29 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "Why should we choose you?" — recommendation: a guest: A medical student says applicants really have to sell themselves in interviews and the personal statement, saying they believe in themselves and are good enough, though this feels alien to many. — 00:04:46
2017-11-29 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "Why should we choose you?" — announcement: Ali says more videos about medicine interviews are coming, including medical ethics, and he wants to make an entire interview syllabus. — 00:13:03
2017-12-02 · Ambulance Day - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #15 — announcement: Ali says more vlogs are coming soon, and more videos about the medicine application process. — 00:03:31
2017-12-06 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "What's your biggest weakness?" — announcement: Ali presents tips from six medical students on answering "What's your biggest weakness?" in medicine interviews, and mock answers from himself and his friend Kenny. — 00:00:00
2017-12-06 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "What's your biggest weakness?" — announcement: Ali says more videos about medicine interviews are coming very soon, alongside his vlogs about life as a medical student. — 00:10:01
2017-12-21 · Consent, Capacity and Jehovah's Witnesses - Medical Ethics & Law for interviews — announcement: Ali presents a video on consent, capacity and Jehovah's Witnesses as part of his Medical Ethics for Interview series. — 00:00:00
2017-12-22 · Singing carols in the hospital - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #18 — announcement: Ali tells medicine applicants to look out for the medical ethics videos, which will come out at some point; he is not sure whether they are already out. (hedged) — 00:01:51
2017-12-24 · Finishing finals - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #20 — Ali: After the exam Ali spends a few hours editing a medical ethics video, which he had neglected during the exams; three hours later, while his friends went bowling, it is still not done. — 00:02:08