Ali's vlogs: medical elective, final year and junior-doctor life (2017)
project history · status: last documented in 2018 · last event: milestone (2018-05-24) · owner: Ali
Parts: Ali predicts hardly anyone but friends will watch his vlogs (2017) · Ali promises a vlog on the temples of Angkor Wat (2017)
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-07-15 | launched | Ali films his first vlog, on his medical elective in Cambodia. | Why I'm starting a Vlog - Cambridge Medical Elective #01 00:00:00 |
| 2017-09-02 | milestone | Ali plans to vlog aspects of life as a final-year medical student throughout the 2017–18 year, whenever something vaguely interesting happens. | Final year begins - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #01 00:00:00 |
| 2018-05-01 | milestone | Ali's first livestream was an impromptu attempt with about 250 to 300 people watching at any given moment, which he calls ridiculous and awesome. | First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A video description |
| 2018-05-01 | looked back | Ali started his YouTube channel when he decided one day on his medical elective to make a video, filming himself talking with his phone. | First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A 00:34:11 |
| 2018-05-07 (happened 2017-08) | looked back | Ali started YouTube about nine months earlier because, when he consumes something, he asks whether he could produce it: watching Casey Neistat and Peter McKinnon made him want to vlog. | Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student 00:53:09 |
| 2018-05-07 | milestone | Ali's channel reached 20,000 subscribers that morning. | Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student 00:54:39 |
| 2018-05-14 | milestone | Ali looks forward to vlogging his life as a junior doctor as it goes along. | Monthly Favourites #4 - Ali Abdaal 00:00:29 |
| 2018-05-24 | milestone | In his talk Ali says he has been making YouTube videos for nine months and has made about 110 in that time. | Behind the scenes of Cambridge University Medical School - Med student VLOG #35 00:02:15 |
What is said about it
18 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 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
- 2017-07-15 · Why I'm starting a Vlog - Cambridge Medical Elective #01 — announcement: Ali hopes to make his 50 terrible videos over the next year, so that when junior-doctor life starts on 1 August 2018 he can film decent vlogs, maybe weekly, on being a junior doctor. (hedged) — 00:01:39
- 2017-07-15 · Why I'm starting a Vlog - Cambridge Medical Elective #01 — Ali expects that, in the worst case, no one will watch his vlogs, which he calls pretty likely; probably just friends will. (hedged) — 00:02:08
- 2017-07-15 · Why I'm starting a Vlog - Cambridge Medical Elective #01 — Ali: Even if no one watches, Ali says vlogging will be fun and will stretch his creative muscles, a creative outlet through medical school and as a doctor. — 00:02:37
- 2017-07-15 · Why I'm starting a Vlog - Cambridge Medical Elective #01 — Ali hopes his vlogs will be nice to look back on in a few years, showing behind the scenes what it was like to be a medical student and a junior doctor. (hedged) — 00:02:37
- 2017-08-01 · The Temple in the Sky (Cambodia) - Cambridge Medical Elective #04 — announcement: Ali tells viewers that a vlog episode about the temples of Angkor Wat is coming. — 00:01:26
- 2017-08-08 · Sunset over Phnom Penh (Cambodia) - Cambridge Medical Elective #06 — Ali: At the Phnom Penh night market, a stranger who saw Ali's camera rig asked if he was a YouTuber; she is trying to start her own channel and asked him for tips, which excited him. — 00:02:21
- 2017-08-08 · Sunset over Phnom Penh (Cambodia) - Cambridge Medical Elective #06 — announcement: Ali: The next morning (9 August 2017) a taxi to Battambang begins Ali's three-week trip around the rest of Cambodia and Vietnam, which his vlogs will follow. — 00:02:21
- 2017-08-11 · AirBnB Tour + Offered Drugs (Cambodia) - Cambridge Medical Elective #07 — Ali: After an amazing six weeks in Phnom Penh, Ali says goodbye to the city and travels north to Battambang. — 00:00:00
- 2017-08-11 · AirBnB Tour + Offered Drugs (Cambodia) - Cambridge Medical Elective #07 — announcement: Ali and his friends have an early start the next day, for a whole-day trip with one of the tour guides. — 00:02:42
- 2017-09-02 · Final year begins - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #01 — announcement: Ali says the target audience of his final-year vlogs is himself six or seven years earlier, when he was thinking of applying to medicine and to Cambridge and would have liked to see a medical student's life. — 00:00:29
- 2017-09-02 · Final year begins - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #01 — announcement: Ali expects to experiment with different formats for the next few episodes of his final-year vlog and asks viewers for advice and feedback in the comments. (hedged) — 00:02:40
- 2018-03-07 · Monthly Favourites #2 - Ali Abdaal — Ali: When starting his YouTube channel, Ali struggled with what his friends and year group would think of him, but now he is really glad he did it. — 00:11:44
- 2018-03-07 · Monthly Favourites #2 - Ali Abdaal — Ali says it is fine if no one watches his videos now: making them is fun and long-term, and he wants to document his journey as a medical student and junior doctor. — 00:15:42
- 2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — announcement: Ali says he is definitely going to continue vlogging. — 00:09:34
- 2018-04-05 · Finding out my Foundation Year Jobs - Quick update — announcement: Ali says he will definitely keep his YouTube channel going for at least his two foundation years, if not much longer. — 00:02:01
- 2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali: About 290 people watched Ali's livestream from his room, which he found amazing. — 00:19:02
- 2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali: Another reason for starting YouTube was driving traffic to SixMed, which Ali had run for about four years and was bored of; he wanted to do medical education, and few doctors were on YouTube. — 00:53:42