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United States

country · in 21 sources (2018–2020)

Sources by year: 2018: 6 · 2019: 3 · 2020: 12

Also known as: US, America

Threads

Also named in the threads: Liberty Medics (2020)

Often together

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

USMLE (13) · United Kingdom (18) · COVID-19 (7) · NHS (7) · Japan (3) · London (4) · Cambridge (7) · Addenbrooke's Hospital (2) · St Albans (2) · Medical ethics (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2020

  • 2020-04-14 · Study With Me in the French Alps - USMLE Preparation — Ali starts preparing for the USMLE, the medical exam taken by US medical students, because he is toying with the idea of applying to the US for residency. (hedged) — 00:02:00
  • 2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: While travelling Ali planned to prepare for the USMLE, the US medical licensing exam, partly because he likes exams and wants to relearn medicine, but mainly to keep open the option of moving to the US. — 00:05:20
    • America's many peripheral draws, unrelated to medicine, which Canada, Australia and the UK lack, put it at the top of Ali's list for his residency. — 00:17:26
    • The process apparently takes about two years: Ali hopes to take the USMLE between December 2020 and February 2021 and maybe be in America around 2022. (hedged) — 00:18:09
    • The spark came from Ali's friends Usama and Shireen in New York: Usama, a dermatology resident in Manhattan, flies to the UK every year to run Liberty Medics' physical course on how to make it in America. — 00:21:54
    • Usama proposed that he and Ali go in together on the online course, Liberty Medics' How to Make It in America; on 2 January 2020 he and Shireen came to Ali's house in Cambridge and they spent two days filming it. — 00:22:54
    • Filming the course from behind the camera, hearing Usama describe life in the US and how to get there, Ali began to think of doing it himself. — 00:22:54
    • Adventure is the main thing that sells the move to Ali, and America for its other benefits. — 00:26:26
    • Ali's current plan: prepare for the USMLE, which he has started, ramp up once his job ends in August 2020, then aim for an emergency medicine residency in America, always subject to change. — 00:31:36
  • 2020-08-06 · My Last Day as a Doctor - Reflections — Ali: A move to America would take at least two or three years of applications and Ali has not fully decided on it; for the next few months to a year he will prepare for the USMLE, the US medical exam. — 00:03:42
  • 2020-12-13 · Love, Money and Relationships - Answering your Assumptions — Ali is having second thoughts about moving to America. — 00:28:27
  • 2020-12-17 · Stress, Regrets and Inspirations - Q&A with Kharma Medic — Ali has made a half-hour video on why he is interested in residency in the US; in essence, he thinks it would be more of an adventure. — 00:19:12
  • …and 36 statements more in 2020 — all statements of 2020

2019

2018

  • 2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — Abi says an American doctor offered Charlie Gard an experimental treatment; his parents wanted to fly him to the US, Great Ormond Street Hospital said this was not in his best interests, and a court battle followed. — 00:00:58
    • Ali says the Charlie Gard case got much US media attention partly because American courts are very politicised, with political parties appointing judges. — 00:11:52
    • Ali says many American commentators claimed a US system would have cared about Charlie Gard's parents' wishes, and portrayed the NHS as holding him captive. — 00:12:21
    • Abi says US coverage conflated the state deciding with a national health service, amid American debates about their own health system. — 00:13:19
  • 2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali: On people who choose medicine only to make a lot of money, Ali says you can do that in America but not really in the UK. — 00:09:35
    • Ali hears Scandinavian countries have good healthcare, calls the American system absolutely crap, and loves the UK system, though the NHS probably can't survive in its current state. (hedged) — 00:27:16
  • 2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali: To a Damascus University student thinking of moving to the UK, Ali says go for it, but nothing is particularly amazing about the UK: the grass seems greener elsewhere, as people in the UK think of America, so do not move for that reason. — 00:06:32
    • Using American English in the BMAT does not matter, Ali says: no one cares. — 00:15:22
  • 2018-06-12 · Live Stream - Tuesday Evening Hangout — Ali: Medical technology is less developed in the UK than in the US, Ali says, so med tech or education tech is easier to get into there: a bigger fish in a smaller pond, without America's competition. — 00:17:21
    • To work in medicine in the US after medical school in the UK you must take the USMLE, the biggest barrier, and have references, Ali says. — 00:25:28
  • 2018-08-20 · Studying Medicine in Eastern Europe - A comprehensive guide — Abdullah: A European medical degree is accepted throughout the EU, where doctors can work without passing entrance exams; the UK will have the UK MLA, and for the US there is the USMLE. — 00:30:24
  • 2018-10-01 · Is university worth it? The non-academic value of university — Ali contrasts the US and other systems, where graduates can be saddled with $150,000 of debt chased by banks and companies. — 00:10:38
  • …and 3 statements more in 2018 — all statements of 2018