Ali plans to take the USMLE and move to America for an emergency medicine residency (2020)
project history · status: last documented in 2020 · last event: milestone (2020-12-31) · owner: Ali
Told alongside: Ali streams on Twitch (2020) · Ali promises daily Twitch live streams from August (2020) · Ali's one-year sabbatical from medicine (2020) · Ali promises to contact Thomas Frank and Matt D'Avella about collaborations when he moves to America (2020)
About: USMLE, United States, Emergency medicine
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-04-14 | launched | 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) | Study With Me in the French Alps - USMLE Preparation 00:02:00 |
| 2020-04-17 | milestone | Ali would love to collaborate with Thomas Frank and Matt D'Avella; one big reason he wants to live in the US for a while is that it unlocks collabs with many of his internet friends. | Answering your Questions 00:25:55 |
| 2020-07-03 | announced | 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. | I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update 00:05:20 |
| 2020-07-03 | milestone | 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. | I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update 00:31:36 |
| 2020-08-06 | milestone | 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. → refers to I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update | My Last Day as a Doctor - Reflections 00:03:42 |
| 2020-08-11 | milestone | Ali is preparing for USMLE Step 1 because he is vaguely considering moving to America for his medical residency. (hedged) | Study with Me - Hustle & Chill 00:00:00 |
| 2020-09-18 | milestone | Ali uses Notion while preparing for the USMLE, the US medical exam, and he has been live-streaming his study for it on Twitch every morning. | The 5 Magical Apps That Changed My Life 00:07:05 |
| 2020-09-27 | milestone | Asked whether Ali plans to move to the US soon, the channel answers: not anytime soon. | Collecting My Tesla Model 3 - Day In The Life creator comment |
| 2020-12-13 | setback | Ali is having second thoughts about moving to America. | Love, Money and Relationships - Answering your Assumptions 00:28:27 |
| 2020-12-17 | milestone | 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. → refers to I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update | Stress, Regrets and Inspirations - Q&A with Kharma Medic 00:19:12 |
| 2020-12-31 | milestone | One of Ali's goals is to train in emergency medicine and maybe work abroad, outside the UK. (hedged) | I WAS WRONG - How I Set Goals 00:08:14 |
What is said about it
8 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2020-04-14 · Study With Me in the French Alps - USMLE Preparation — recommendation: Ali begins the First Aid textbook for the USMLE with its table of contents, which he calls the most important page of any textbook. — 00:02:29
- 2020-04-14 · Study With Me in the French Alps - USMLE Preparation — Ali sets up his retrospective revision timetable in Notion: a table with the main topics in one column, the date he first studies each in the second, the date of the second study in the third, colour-coded. — 00:02:29
- 2020-04-14 · Study With Me in the French Alps - USMLE Preparation — Ali: Flicking through the first chapters of First Aid, Ali finds that most of it is material he once knew and will just have to relearn. — 00:02:58
- 2020-04-14 · Study With Me in the French Alps - USMLE Preparation — Ali creates toggles in Notion for the main USMLE topics so that, when he comes to study each subject, he immediately has a big-picture understanding of it. — 00:02:58
- 2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali, living in the UK since 2003, is contemplating living in another country: he would like to try America, Australia and New Zealand, and likes the idea of Hong Kong, South Korea and Argentina. — 00:24:53
- 2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: 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
- 2020-07-13 · What We Learnt In 2 Years of Being Doctors - Deep Dive with Molly Hunt — Ali is thinking of specialising in emergency medicine. — 00:26:22
- 2020-08-06 · My Last Day as a Doctor - Reflections — Ali: After two years of UK medicine comes a natural break to apply for a specialty; Ali does not know what he wants yet, though he leans strongly towards emergency medicine, where he has never worked. — 00:08:57