All statements about University of Cambridge

180 statements about University of Cambridge in 63 sources, by upload date.

2024

2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali: In 2012, aged 18 and just admitted to medical school at Cambridge, Ali was scammed out of £1,000 of life savings from years of private tutoring when he tried to buy his first Apple product from a seller on Craigslist. — 00:01:27

2020

2020-06-12 (said on 2020-05-27, implied) · Crushes, Challenges and Irritating Habits - Q&A With My Roommate Molly — Ali and Molly Hunt have known each other since 2012, when they were in the same year and college studying medicine at Cambridge; eight years on they live together. — 00:00:28
2020-06-12 (said on 2020-05-27, implied) · Crushes, Challenges and Irritating Habits - Q&A With My Roommate Molly — Molly Hunt is a junior doctor in the Cambridge region who went to medical school with Ali at Cambridge. — 00:00:28

2018

2018-01-03 · Preparing for the SJT - Ali's Vlog #21 — Ali and his friends do SJT practice at Lucia's house, going over the questions on the TV and discussing whether they agree with the mark scheme. — 00:01:49
2018-01-06 · Magic, pizza and SJT - Ali's Vlog #22 — Ali: After the SJT everyone mills around the Guildhall discussing it, and Ali says pretty much the biggest exam of their medical school career is over. — 00:00:00
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
2018-01-13 · My University Desk Setup - Cambridge Medical Student — Ali, a final-year medical student at Cambridge University, makes his first desk setup video, showing the desk he has used for the last year, because he enjoys watching such videos. — 00:00:00
2018-01-13 · My University Desk Setup - Cambridge Medical Student — Ali's desk, chair and a small side table came with his room and belong to the university; the laptop sits on the side table, with books, notepads and chargers on its bottom shelf to keep a clean, semi-minimalist look. — 00:03:44
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
2018-01-20 · Christmas in the Cotswolds - Ali's Vlog #23 — Ali: With his final-year written exams over and pretty much everything done, Ali spends the Christmas holidays just hanging out with friends. — 00:00:05
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
2018-02-10 · Life Support Training - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #24 — Ali: In week two of his emergency medicine placement, Ali is on an all-day Immediate Life Support course covering the ABCDE approach to assessing unwell patients. — 00:00:00
2018-02-17 · Medicine Application - No offers? — Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, says he got into medicine first time and so has no personal experience of being rejected for it; he relays tips from friends who got in on later attempts. — 00:00:00
2018-02-17 · Medicine Application - No offers? — a guest: The same student says a couple of friends now studying medicine at Cambridge had been rejected by all four medical schools they applied to, sometimes including Oxbridge. — 00:16:35
2018-02-21 · Another Day of Fun (La La Land) - The Prion King · Addenbrooke’s Hospital Pantomime 2018 — Ali: Each year, clinical medical students in Years 4 to 6 at Cambridge University put on the Addenbrooke's pantomime to raise money for charity. — video description
2018-02-21 · Another Day of Fun (La La Land) - The Prion King · Addenbrooke’s Hospital Pantomime 2018 — Ali: Cambridge clinical medical students are sent on placements of six weeks at a time to hospitals around the East Anglia region. — video description
2018-02-24 · Breaking Bad News / Death & Dying - Cambridge medical student VLOG #25 — Ali: In his final year Ali takes part in a two-day Death and Dying course on breaking bad news, working with actors trained to cry on demand. — 00:00:06
2018-03-03 · Lacrosse and A&E - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #26 — Ali and his fellow students are on their GP placement in the middle of nowhere, spending their days seeing patients and drinking lots of tea and coffee; he finds it really fun. — 00:00:09
2018-03-03 · Lacrosse and A&E - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #26 — Ali plays clinical school lacrosse, one of the many sports Cambridge clinical students do; he says it is easy for medics to get started and the team wants everyone to join. — 00:01:10
2018-03-10 · A day on GP placement - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #27 — Ali: In the evening Ali prepares for the Prescribing Safety Assessment and edits video and drone shots for Instagram. — 00:04:00
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali: Some UK medical schools, such as Cambridge, require an intercalated degree, and there medical school lasts six years. — 00:00:29
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali ranked East Anglia as his first-choice foundation region because it includes Cambridge, which he really likes, and the smaller hospitals of his placements: Ipswich, Bedford, Peterborough, King's Lynn. — 00:04:53
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali says his FPAS score is relatively high within East Anglia but nowhere near the highest, so he is unlikely to get his very first choice of job. — 00:06:21
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 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
2018-03-21 · Q & A - 5,000 Subscribers! — Ali says some Oxbridge colleges are all about research, but interviewers at almost all universities prefer medicine applicants who see being a doctor as caring for patients rather than a route into research. — 00:02:58
2018-03-24 · Exam Revision Tips with Ibz Mo — Ibz Mo (Ibrahim Mohamed) studies Psychological and Behavioural Sciences at Wolfson College, Cambridge. — 00:00:00
2018-03-24 · Exam Revision Tips with Ibz Mo — Ibz Mo says he worked very hard at A-level, got his grades and got into Cambridge, and had to really learn how to study and revise. — 00:00:29
2018-04-02 · Pakistan Society Ball - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #28 — Ali has been part of the Cambridge University Pakistan Society (PakSoc) for six years and says it has given him some of his greatest friends, ones he will keep for life. — 00:00:00
2018-04-02 · Pakistan Society Ball - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #28 — Ali: The 2018 Pakistan Society Ball is Ali's sixth; he was president of the Cambridge University Pakistan Society in his third year and a VP in his second. — 00:00:29
2018-04-02 · Pakistan Society Ball - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #28 — Ali says Cambridge is mostly white and probably will be for the foreseeable future, though the university is working on it and its access and communications departments are really good. (hedged) — 00:04:20
2018-04-02 · Pakistan Society Ball - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #28 — recommendation: Ali tells ethnic-minority students that Cambridge has many societies, such as PakSoc, India Soc, Bangla Soc and Somali Soc, open to anyone, and that its being mostly white alone should not stop them applying. — 00:04:20
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
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — Ali says he applied active recall and spaced repetition rigorously only in his second and third years at university, the two years he did really well in his Cambridge exams; in other years he drifted back to rereading and highlighting. — 00:08:37
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — Ali used his spaced repetition spreadsheet in his second and third years and did really well in his exams; he is using it in his final year and hopes to do well again. (hedged) — 00:11:35
2018-04-12 · Motivation, Stress & Time Management - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: a guest: A guest advises being motivated positively, not negatively: treat an offer, such as one from Cambridge, as a chance to work towards rather than a fear of missing it. — 00:10:56
2018-04-12 · Motivation, Stress & Time Management - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — 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
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali says Paul is a Cambridge supervisor who marks students' essays. — 00:20:33
2018-04-24 · Study with Me + Revision tips from friends - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #32 — Ali: On a sunny April day in his final year at Cambridge, Ali says his exams are about five days away. — 00:00:59
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali's tip for getting into Cambridge University: get really, really good grades. — 00:05:00
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali applied for medicine to Cambridge, Imperial, UCL and King's: UCL rejected him and the other three made offers. — 00:05:29
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali's exams finished the day before the livestream (30 April 2018), so he now has all the time in the world to make lots of videos. — 00:06:48
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali thought he had a reasonable chance of getting into Cambridge, but says it is always just a chance and he was very lucky to get in. — 00:22:10
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali calls it a myth that you need extracurriculars for Oxford or Cambridge: they look for massive nerds who are really good at their subject, not well-rounded people with Grade 8 piano or Team GB rowing. — 00:24:15
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali: At Cambridge Ali ranked 71st in his year in first year and 30th in second year. — 00:38:23
2018-05-06 · Medical Rap ft. Omar Ali - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #33 — Ali: Omar Ali, Ali's friend, is a fifth-year medical student at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, and has been composing medical raps for a few years. — video description
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali applied to UCL, King's, Imperial and Cambridge for medicine. — 00:11:42
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali: Two of Ali's friends studying medicine at Cambridge got one and two A* GCSEs: three between them, more than the other 800 students of their Birmingham school combined. — 00:15:05
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
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali says Cambridge does not really give scholarships for being clever, to international or UK and EU students, but has bursaries for students from low-income backgrounds. (hedged) — 00:18:34
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali says some governments, such as Singapore's and Malaysia's, and organisations in India and Pakistan pay Cambridge fees for really clever students. — 00:19:02
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: 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
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali finds the Cambridge medicine course fun: he is not a fan of complaining about it and likes its structure and its people. — 00:23:08
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali: Imperial also accepted Ali for medicine, but he chose Cambridge, which he calls better. — 00:27:59
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — announcement: 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. — 00:49:20
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: 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
2018-05-24 · Behind the scenes of Cambridge University Medical School - Med student VLOG #35 — Ali attends the Cambridge clinical school's Away Day, a big faculty meeting, where he has been invited to give a presentation about his YouTube channel. — 00:00:00
2018-05-24 · Behind the scenes of Cambridge University Medical School - Med student VLOG #35 — recommendation: Ali proposes that the Cambridge clinical school make its own YouTube channel of high-quality educational videos for medical students. — 00:02:39
2018-05-24 · Behind the scenes of Cambridge University Medical School - Med student VLOG #35 — Ali: The Away Day made Ali appreciate how much work goes on behind the scenes of the Cambridge clinical school. — 00:04:06
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali: With his exams over, Ali is on the apprenticeship block: six weeks in a hospital learning the logistics of being a junior doctor, such as filling out the various blood forms. — 00:01:36
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali: Medicine at Cambridge involves quite a lot of essay writing, Ali says: about two or three essays a week, at least in the first three years. — 00:04:35
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali: Cambridge medicine essay titles in physiology, Ali says, might be the structure and function of the sodium pump, comparing the types of muscle, or how the body keeps its pH from becoming deranged after a can of Coke. — 00:06:04
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali: Asked whether young students should already think about universities, Ali says do what you like: he had his heart set on Oxford or Cambridge from quite a young age. — 00:07:25
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — recommendation: Ali: 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
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali: The average BMAT score of successful Oxbridge candidates is about six, in the low sixes, Ali says, so getting that is pretty good. — 00:19:37
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali: Finishing medical school is bittersweet for Ali: it has been incredible, but like his first three undergraduate years he is glad it happened and would not want to do it again. — 00:23:20
2018-06-01 · Coldplay - "Yellow" · Acoustic cover ft. Zobia Haq — Ali: Suhail Idrees and Zobia Haq studied at Cambridge, where Ali befriended them through the Pakistan Society; now in city jobs, they come back to Cambridge at weekends to sing with him. — 00:00:00
2018-06-01 · Coldplay - "Yellow" · Acoustic cover ft. Zobia Haq — Ali: Zobia Haq studied History at Cambridge and works at a bank in London; Suhail Idrees studied Engineering at Cambridge, spent a year at MIT, worked a year as an Apple product designer and is now a London management consultant. — video description
2018-06-08 · A day in med school in the Caribbean - St George's University Grenada · Cambridge medic VLOG #37 — Ali: Sundas (as heard), who was a student at Cambridge two years earlier, shows Ali around St George's University and its classes. — 00:00:00
2018-06-08 · A day in med school in the Caribbean - St George's University Grenada · Cambridge medic VLOG #37 — Ali: A one-hour haematology small group of about eight at St George's University felt to Ali like Cambridge's preclinical supervisions: discussion-based, back and forth with the facilitator. — 00:00:45
2018-06-08 · A day in med school in the Caribbean - St George's University Grenada · Cambridge medic VLOG #37 — Ali: St George's University students seem to Ali to do clinical work from the start: second-years learn basic sciences in a clinical context, where Cambridge second-years would have done only the sciences. (hedged) — 00:00:45
2018-06-12 · Study with me + The Magic of Categorisation - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #38 — Ali: By 5 p.m. on the day before the exam Ali's group had been through all the history cases in the OSCE preparation book, and he felt there were no more holes to plug. — 00:06:16
2018-06-12 · Study with me + The Magic of Categorisation - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #38 — Ali: The night before, Ali says the first of his final OSCE exams is the next day: five stations, four of them history taking and one challenging station that will be a mystery; he feels quite relaxed about it. — 00:07:15

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2017

2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali is a fifth-year medical student at Cambridge University and co-founder of SixMed, a small company running courses for medical school applicants; he has taught its BMAT Crash Course for five years. — 00:00:00
2017-07-04 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Biology · BMAT Tips series — Ali introduces himself as a fifth-year medical student at Cambridge. — 00:00:00
2017-07-15 · Why I'm starting a Vlog - Cambridge Medical Elective #01 — announcement: Ali wants to vlog his life as a doctor from beginning to end, starting on 1 August 2018, and in the meantime his medical elective and final year at Cambridge. — 00:00:58
2017-07-26 · We're trying something new... · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 1 — Ali and Ben, fifth-year Cambridge medical students on their medical elective in Cambodia, have just come up with an idea for an app they are going to make. — 00:00:00
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says each BMAT Section 3 essay is marked by two examiners, who tend to be graduate students at Cambridge. — 00:01:28
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says most Cambridge students revising for essay exams do not write whole essays: they think them through and plan them. — 00:12:44
2017-09-02 · Final year begins - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #01 — Ali starts his final year as a medical student at Cambridge University after five years, with one more year to go before he and his classmates officially become doctors in August 2018. — 00:00:00
2017-09-02 · Final year begins - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #01 — Ali says that in fourth and fifth year of medicine, the first two years of clinical school, he focused on exams and projects, while final year is about learning the business of being a doctor and life on the wards rather than maximising exam marks. — 00:00:29
2017-09-07 (said on 2017-08-28, implied) · Journey to placement - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #02 — Ali says clinical students rarely get back to college, so when they have business in town they visit college, say hello to the ducks and enjoy the scenery. — 00:01:50
2017-09-07 (said on 2017-08-28, implied) · Journey to placement - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #02 — Ali: To end the bank holiday weekend, Ali and his fellow students drive to their placement in King's Lynn for the first time. — 00:04:01
2017-09-11 · Wilderness Medicine Expedition - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #03 — Ali writes that each term the Cambridge University Wilderness Medicine Society runs a couple of weekend trips to pretty parts of the UK, with mountain hiking, occasional medical scenarios, food and group bonding games. — video description
2017-09-11 · Wilderness Medicine Expedition - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #03 — a guest: A member of the Cambridge University Wilderness Medicine Society urges students to join it as the best society: wonderful weekends away, sociable, learning, fun and an escape from Cambridge. (playful) — 00:04:44
2017-09-22 · Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Baking - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #06 — Ali is academic lead on the committee of the Cambridge University Obstetrics & Gynaecology Society, which organises events and talks, and hopes to organise lectures for it. — 00:00:08
2017-09-22 · Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Baking - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #06 — Sarah, president of the Cambridge University Obstetrics & Gynaecology Society for 2017–18, says the society puts on many events to help anyone interested in obstetrics and gynaecology with their career path. — 00:00:50
2017-09-22 · Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Baking - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #06 — Ali: On Sunday night Ali drives to King's Lynn, picking up four people on the way, for week three of his senior medicine placement. — 00:03:18
2017-09-23 · How to write a Medicine Personal Statement - 13 tips — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, starts a series of videos in which he and many medical-student friends give advice on medicine applications. — 00:00:00
2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — Ali Abdaal (channel): Oxford and Cambridge are very similar, so the advice on applying to Cambridge for medicine applies to Oxford too, including the academic course and the stereotypes. — video description
2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — a guest: A Cambridge medical student says people interested in the science of medicine as well as its people side do well in Cambridge medicine, which still teaches the people side. — 00:00:58
2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — a guest: A Cambridge medical student says Cambridge teaches medicine conceptually from first principles, so learners who prefer building understanding to rote memorisation should think about applying. — 00:01:09
2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — a guest: A Cambridge medical student says Cambridge medicine is not the right place for those who want hands-on patient contact from the start, and the university is open about that. — 00:01:25
2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — a guest: A Cambridge medical student says Cambridge supervisions are usually run by a doctor or senior faculty member with three or four students, sometimes one-on-one, and can be intense. — 00:01:52
2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — a guest: A Cambridge medical student says Cambridge terms are intense: eight weeks of lectures and supervisions with a social life and sleep to fit in. — 00:02:23
2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — a guest: A Cambridge medical student says the difficulty of the Cambridge course is what makes it a good experience, because students make close friends going through it. — 00:02:40
2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — Molly Hunt: Molly says she was not keen on Cambridge, thinking she would not be good enough and that it was a different world, until her parents made her go to an open day. — 00:03:05
2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — Molly Hunt: At the Cambridge open day Molly saw visitors and student guides just like her, which gave her hope that a normal person could go there. — 00:03:22
2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — recommendation: Molly Hunt: Molly recommends seeing as many Cambridge colleges as you can at an open day, since Cambridge has so many colleges. — 00:03:35
2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — Ali: When applying, Ali was a bit worried that people at Cambridge would be weird, but it did not stop him applying. — 00:04:05
2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — Ali says that in his years of helping students with medicine applications he has often heard that they are reluctant to apply to Cambridge or Oxford for fear of the negative stereotypes and of not fitting in. — 00:04:23
2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — Ali says media stories, such as Cambridge students burning money in front of homeless people and weird interview questions, make Oxford and Cambridge look like places for other people. — 00:04:35
2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — a guest: A Cambridge medical student says few people in their lectures look like them, and that this was a motivation. — 00:05:08
2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — a guest: The same student says that applicants who feel they do not fit the Cambridge mould still have a place there, since the only requirement is being intelligent enough. — 00:05:21
2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — a guest: A Cambridge medical student says the Cambridge stereotype runs through society but does not really exist, since the medics are all very different. — 00:05:50
2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — a guest: Another Cambridge medical student expected a stereotype and trouble fitting in but found everyone down to earth, with very different interests. — 00:05:56
2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — recommendation: Ali says students who do not fit the private-school white male mould are exactly the people who should apply to Cambridge, because otherwise its diversity will not increase. — 00:06:59
2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — recommendation: Ali recommends the channels of YouTubers such as Ibz Mo (as heard) who are challenging the stereotype of the white, middle-class, rich male Cambridge student. — 00:07:08
2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — recommendation: Ali says the only thing that should decide whether to apply to Cambridge for medicine is whether the course suits you: if you enjoy the academic side and would cope with intense terms, apply. — 00:07:58
2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — Ali: In his final year at Cambridge, Ali says he and his friends are sad to be leaving and cannot imagine having studied medicine anywhere else. — 00:08:20
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, presents 15 tips from 10 medical students on preparing for medicine interviews, for a panel interview, an MMI or an Oxbridge interview. — 00:00:00
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — recommendation: a guest: A student says the key to medicine interview preparation is being comfortable and confident: Cambridge and Oxford throw curveballs, and the only preparation is a mindset that lets you think things through and reply concisely. — 00:05:08
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — a guest: Another student read the health articles on BBC News and the latest Student BMJ before interviews and, for the more scientific Cambridge interview, read up on all their school subjects. — 00:09:46
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
2017-10-12 · My first lecture for medical students - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #09 — Ali says his first medical teaching session went quite well: it was really scary to give, but people seemed to enjoy it and rated it excellent throughout on the feedback form. — 00:01:09
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, a final-year Cambridge medical student, presents himself and seven medical student friends on their experiences of the Cambridge medicine interview, for applicants to Cambridge or Oxford. — 00:00:00
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — Ali says the students' accounts of the Cambridge medicine interview are repetitive: everyone has broadly the same experience, enjoying an interview that is scientific and academic. — 00:00:21
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — recommendation: Ali says Cambridge interviewers ask about what you know, then about what you don't and try to teach it to see how you think, so applicants should think out loud. — 00:00:21
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: A student loved the Cambridge interview: rooms with comfy sofas and chatting with awesome people; expecting not to get in, the student decided just to have fun. — 00:01:19
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: Another student found Cambridge the most enjoyable of four medicine interviews: questions the student vaguely knew were explored in more depth than covered before, so the student had to think a lot. — 00:01:49
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: Expecting old men behind a desk firing formal questions, the student found the Cambridge interview friendly and relaxed, in a lounge with comfortable sofas, a two-way conversation rather than an interrogation. — 00:02:30
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: After five years at Cambridge, the student says the interview was much like the small-group supervisions: the supervisor teaches something on a topic, then asks a question about it, in a two-way dialogue. — 00:03:00
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: A third student's Cambridge interview was science and maths, unlike the student's other interviews: two separate interviews with two groups of interviewers and waiting around all day. — 00:03:29
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: The student kept getting things wrong in a maths interview and was guided to the answer; Cambridge interviewers look for someone who can get things wrong, recover and learn, because they will be your tutors. — 00:04:13
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: Another student calls the Cambridge interviews two half-hour science tests, great fun: the interviewers probed until they found something the student did not know and watched the response. — 00:05:39
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: The student unreservedly recommends the Cambridge interview to medicine applicants, since it is like a little supervision, the small-group teaching at Cambridge, and a pilot of that way of learning. — 00:06:54
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: Another student's Cambridge interviews were a thorough test of the basic sciences; the first was more clinical, on medical problems and what it is to be a good doctor professionally. — 00:08:12
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: Another student had two Cambridge interviews; the first was a general one many applicants prepare for, on why medicine and why Cambridge. — 00:10:27
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — recommendation: a guest: The student had covered nothing from the Cambridge science interview before, some not until third year, and advises expecting questions on what you don't know, since interviewers want to see how you think, not what you memorised. — 00:10:56
2017-10-24 · 6 tips for Medicine MMIs - Multiple Mini Interviews — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, presents tips from medical students for the multiple mini interviews (MMIs), which he says most UK medical schools now use. — 00:00:00
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) — Ali says his Oxford friends unanimously agreed that every tip for the Cambridge medicine interview also applies to the Oxford one, as the two are pretty much identical. — 00:00:00
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — recommendation: a guest: A student's biggest tip for the Cambridge medicine interview is to think out loud rather than sit silently on a hard question, since interviewers want to see how you reason, not that you know everything. — 00:00:53
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — a guest: A student says the Cambridge interview tests how you learn outside your comfort zone, since a test of answers alone would be wasteful among top applicants and students come to learn new things. — 00:09:21
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — recommendation: a guest: Another student says the Cambridge interview may need even less preparation than a normal one, being unpredictable: just practise talking and being relaxed. (hedged) — 00:11:50
2017-11-02 · Clinical School Pantomime audition - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #11 — Ali says the Addenbrooke's pantomime has been the single best thing about his six years as a Cambridge student and one of the best things he has done in his life. — 00:04:07
2017-11-11 · Malignant haematology supervision - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #12 — Ali says the community feeling that grows each year among the Addenbrooke's pantomime's cast, crew and orchestra makes it probably the best part of being a medical student at Cambridge. (hedged) — 00:01:07
2017-11-11 · Malignant haematology supervision - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #12 — Ali gives a two-hour supervision on malignant haematology (leukaemia, lymphoma and similar) at Emmanuel College, from about five to seven in the evening, and finds it really fun. — 00:01:34
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: A student who was very nervous despite preparing says the main tip is to remember that interviewers want you to do well: Cambridge colleges, like anywhere that interviews you, picked you because they see potential in you. — 00:02:18
2017-11-15 · Medicine Interview Tips - Dealing with Nerves — recommendation: a guest: The student says interview practice trains you to be spontaneous and to handle not knowing what will be asked, since interviewers could ask anything and Cambridge interviews sometimes throw curveballs. — 00:03:21
2017-11-18 · Speaking at a Medical Tech Conference - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #13 — Ali opens his conference talk on making apps: a final-year Cambridge medical student who makes apps and websites on the side, he addresses people familiar with computers who have never coded. — 00:03:48
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 — recommendation: Ali says Oxbridge medicine applicants need not learn all their A2 biology and chemistry ahead, since interviews come a few months into year 13, but should know well what they have covered. — 00:00:53
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says Cambridge gives applicants a supplementary questionnaire to say which subjects they have done, while Oxford does not really. — 00:00:53
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — recommendation: Ali advises applicants who get a topic they have not covered, such as the kidneys, or a mind blank, to say so nicely, offer to have a go and then try, rather than bluff. — 00:07:10
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says Oxford and Cambridge interviewers want applicants to feel they are in a teaching session, and are happy to teach a topic the applicant has not met. — 00:07:10
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says mental health is definitely scientific: psychiatry is a medical specialty with a big scientific basis, and Oxbridge no longer looks down on it, as it maybe did 20 years ago. — 00:07:39
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says mental health at Oxford and Cambridge is particularly in the limelight because of higher rates of mental health problems and suicide attempts at such high-achieving institutions. — 00:09:07
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says most Cambridge and Oxford colleges he knows are good at dealing with mental health, and people he knows with mental health issues found support there, so Oxbridge and mental health are not incompatible. — 00:09:07
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — recommendation: Ali says the best preparation for the Oxbridge medicine interview is mock interviews with friends, giving them a list of questions and asking them to challenge you scientifically. — 00:09:41
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says the Oxford and Cambridge interviews are genuinely hard to prepare for actively, since they rest on what you come out with on the day; there is no silver bullet. — 00:10:44
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says the Oxbridge interview works out whether you would benefit from and thrive in their style of teaching; some people are not compatible with it, and no preparation changes that. — 00:12:04
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says that when applying he believed the media's view that Cambridge is the best and anything less second best; he now calls that unhealthy, as Oxbridge is a different style of teaching. — 00:12:30
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali had an interview for an Academic Foundation Programme on the day of the video. — 00:17:09
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says Cambridge has 31 colleges and Oxford about 30, each with its own slightly different interview process. — 00:20:24
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — recommendation: Ali says neither he nor any of the 10 to 15 friends he asked got current-affairs questions in their Oxbridge interviews, so he would not worry much about current affairs. — 00:20:24
2017-11-25 · Students' Wilderness Medicine UK Conference - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #14 — Ali and his friends arrive at a field in Nottingham for a three-day wilderness medicine conference, camping in tents, with workshops, lectures and scenarios to come. — 00:00:00
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 advises mentioning a specific part of the school's course that appeals to you; for Cambridge they would have stressed how much basic science they had done. — 00:02:42
2017-11-29 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "Why should we choose you?" — Ali: In his mock answer Ali says the Cambridge course suits him: three years of preclinical then three of clinical, getting the foundation right before seeing patients rather than from day one. — 00:10:03
2017-11-29 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "Why should we choose you?" — Ali: In his mock answer Ali says he likes Cambridge's supervision system of small groups with world leaders in their field, since he likes asking questions, easier there than in a lecture hall of 300. — 00:10:49
2017-11-29 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "Why should we choose you?" — Ali: In his mock answer Ali says he played a lot of badminton and cricket at school and would like to play in college and perhaps try for the university team. — 00:10:49
2017-11-29 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "Why should we choose you?" — Ali: In his mock answer Ali says he is a close-up magician and has heard Cambridge has a magic society that puts on shows every term. — 00:10:49
2017-11-29 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "Why should we choose you?" — Ali: In his mock answer Ali says magic is one of his biggest passions and he would like to contribute it to Cambridge, perhaps by running workshops teaching people magic. — 00:11:33
2017-12-02 · Ambulance Day - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #15 — Ali: On the second day of his emergency medicine placement, after a day in A&E, Ali is timetabled to go out with the ambulance crew for a 12-hour shift starting around 8am. — 00:00:00
2017-12-09 · A&E Night Shift - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #16 — Ali starts his first-ever night shift, arriving at the hospital around 9.30pm for a 10pm start, to spend the night in A&E. — 00:00:00
2017-12-16 · Finals study sesh - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #17 — Ali's Cambridge medical finals are about three weeks away: a multiple-choice paper on the medicine and a short-answer paper of paragraph answers to clinical ethics and law scenarios. — 00:00:00
2017-12-22 · Singing carols in the hospital - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #18 — Ali: With only a few days to go until their final exams, Ali and his fellow medical students take a break one morning to sing Christmas carols in Addenbrooke's Hospital, his first time singing carols in public. — 00:00:00
2017-12-23 · Procrastinating before finals - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #19 — Ali: Looking back, Ali thinks doing little work in the days before his finals was fine: after three-plus years of preparing in clinical school, working flat out for the last two or three days would not have made any difference. — 00:00:21
2017-12-23 · Procrastinating before finals - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #19 — Ali: About three days before his finals, on a Friday, Ali sings bass in the choir at the annual clinical school carol service in the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge. — 00:00:21
2017-12-23 · Procrastinating before finals - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #19 — Ali: At Cambridge, undergraduates have access to their college's JCR for the first three years; graduates and clinical medical students get access to the MCR. — 00:01:58
2017-12-23 · Procrastinating before finals - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #19 — Ali calls their takeaway in the MCR classic pre-exam procrastination and says that, although people say Cambridge is all about work, it is really more about having fun and fitting the work around it. — 00:02:27
2017-12-23 · Procrastinating before finals - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #19 — Ali: On the Sunday before his first finals paper, with St Albans covered in snow, Ali's only aim is to get back to Cambridge in time, by train if they run or by car. — 00:04:16
2017-12-24 · Finishing finals - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #20 — Ali sits the final written paper of Cambridge medical school: a multiple-choice paper of 125 questions taking about two and a half hours, after which he and his classmates are free. — 00:00:00
2017-12-24 · Finishing finals - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #20 — Ali says that in Cambridge clinical school all the groups are randomised, so it no longer really matters which college you are from and you end up being friends with everyone. — 00:00:00
2017-12-24 · Finishing finals - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #20 — Ali finishes the last written paper of his Cambridge medical finals and is glad it is done, though he found it a really, really hard exam. — 00:01:10

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