University of Cambridge

university · in 82 sources (2017–2024)

Includes: Emmanuel College, Girton College, Selwyn College, St John's College, Trinity College

Sources by year: 2017: 40 · 2018: 40 · 2020: 1 · 2024: 1

Also known as: Cambridge University, Cambridge medical school, Downing College

Threads

Ali's final year at Cambridge medical school (2017) — project history, completed, 2017–2018

Also named in the threads: Ali's vlogs: medical elective, final year and junior-doctor life (2017) · Cut and Paste, Ali and Ben's surgical logbook app for medical students (2017) · Ali promises more videos on the BMAT, interviews and personal statements (2017) · Ali says that because he and his SixMed colleagues graduate next year (2018) and may not have time to run the courses, he is slowly putting the interview course content on YouTube. · Ali promises a video on euthanasia, assisted suicide and do-not-resuscitate decisions (2017) · Ali says part two of his euthanasia videos, which should be out at some point the following week, will cover assisted suicide, attempts to change the law on it, and its ethics. · 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.

Often together

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

University of Oxford (21) · Medicine interview (28) · Cambridge (20) · Imperial College London (6) · Obstetrics and gynaecology (6) · Anki (7) · University College London (4) · Addenbrooke's Hospital Pantomime (6) · Callum (5) · Supervision (4)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

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
- Molly Hunt is a junior doctor in the Cambridge region who went to medical school with Ali at Cambridge. — 00:00:28

2018

2018-01-06 · 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
2018-03-14 · 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
2018-04-02 · 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 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
2018-04-12 · 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
2018-05-07 · 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
2018-05-14 · 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 — recommendation: Ali proposes that the Cambridge clinical school make its own YouTube channel of high-quality educational videos for medical students. — 00:02:39
2018-05-29 · 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
2018-06-08 · 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: 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
…and 60 statements more in 2018 — all statements of 2018

Also named in: How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips, Study with me + My revision method - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #30, Monthly Favourites #3 - Ali Abdaal, Study With Me + 10 Productivity / Revision Tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #31, Exam Study Tips for University & A-Level students - Revision Q&A with Cambridge students, Study with me + More revision tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #34, Study with Me + How I take notes - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #36, How I take notes on my iPad Pro in medical school - Cambridge University medical student, iPad Pro vs iPad (2018) comparison for college / university students

2017

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
2017-09-02 · 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
2017-10-01 · 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
2017-10-05 · 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
2017-10-12 · 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
2017-10-17 · 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
2017-11-02 · 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 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
2017-11-18 · 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 — 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
2017-12-23 · 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
2017-12-24 · 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
…and 93 statements more in 2017 — all statements of 2017

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