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The Children's Surgical Centre (Cambodia) - Cambridge Medial Elective #02

2017-07-18 · Vlog or day in the life · Ali · recording, 4:45 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Medicine and his doctor years · mode: Demonstration and walkthrough

In his second elective vlog Ali tours the Children's Surgical Centre in Phnom Penh, which treats everyone free of charge, describing its morning meetings, an operating room shared by four operations, visiting surgeons who come to teach local staff, and its funding through individual donations on Watsi.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — A Friday morning on the elective: scrubs and the walk to the hospital

  • ★★ Ali and some of his friends are working at a hospital in Cambodia for their medical elective. — 00:00:00 · Cambodia

00:00:49 — The Children's Surgical Centre: free care, the morning meeting, the shared operating room, ophthalmology, visiting surgeons

  • ★★★ Ali says the Children's Surgical Centre in Phnom Penh gives consultations and operations to everyone, not just children, completely free of charge. — 00:00:49 · Children's Surgical Centre, Phnom Penh
  • ★★ Patients come to the Children's Surgical Centre from all over Cambodia and from neighbouring countries such as Thailand and Laos. — 00:00:49 · Children's Surgical Centre, Cambodia
  • ★★ Each morning at the Children's Surgical Centre all staff meet, patients come in one at a time, and the doctors look at X-rays and notes and decide on the operation. — 00:00:49 · Children's Surgical Centre
  • ★★ After the morning meeting at the Children's Surgical Centre, local staff, visiting doctors and medical students like Ali give PowerPoint teaching presentations on a topic of their choice. — 00:01:18 · Children's Surgical Centre
  • ★★ The operating room of the Children's Surgical Centre can hold four operations at the same time. — 00:01:18 · Children's Surgical Centre
  • ★★ Ali thinks the shared operating room is probably less aseptic, but a really good use of resources, since the same equipment serves different operations. (hedged) — 00:01:18 · Children's Surgical Centre
  • ★★ Ali finds surgery at the Children's Surgical Centre much more sociable and collaborative than in the UK, with people walking between operations, which lets students watch several. — 00:01:18 · Children's Surgical Centre
  • ★★ The Children's Surgical Centre has an ophthalmology area upstairs for eye tests and cataract operations. — 00:02:06 · Children's Surgical Centre
  • ★★★ Visiting surgeons from abroad come to the Children's Surgical Centre every week or two, mainly to teach local staff, so that local surgeons can do most of the operating and the project is sustainable. (hedged) — 00:02:06 · Children's Surgical Centre
  • ★★ A team of hand surgeons from Hong Kong is visiting the Children's Surgical Centre for a week. — 00:02:06 · Children's Surgical Centre, Hong Kong

00:02:35 — Visiting teams from Hong Kong and France; funding through donations on Watsi

  • ★ In Ali's first week at the Children's Surgical Centre a visiting team from France, with a plastic surgeon and an orthopaedic surgeon, did operations and threw a big party for the students. — 00:02:35 · Children's Surgical Centre
  • ★★★ The Children's Surgical Centre is funded largely by individual donations through Watsi, a website that posts every patient's story and the cost of each operation. — 00:02:35 · Children's Surgical Centre

00:03:04 — The cataract project with the ophthalmology department

  • ★★ Ali says that without the monthly individual donations the Children's Surgical Centre probably could not operate at its current level. (hedged) — 00:03:04 · Children's Surgical Centre
  • ★★ Ali invites viewers to look at the Children's Surgical Centre's patients through his link and, if they like, donate a few pounds to help save a life. — 00:03:04 · Children's Surgical Centre
  • ★★ For the last few weeks Ali and Ben have spent a few hours a day on a cataract project with the ophthalmology department, entering data from about 600 patients' notes. — 00:03:04 · Children's Surgical Centre

00:03:51 — Outside the hospital, lunch, heading home

  • ★ After work Ali plans to ride a motorbike into town to buy a decent microphone for his camera at a camera shop. (hedged) — 00:04:26

In the description and comments

  • ★ Ali Abdaal (channel): The video and audio of the second elective vlog were recorded on an iPhone 7 Plus with a JOBY Gorillapod and edited in Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017. — video description · Adobe Premiere Pro

Mentioned

Central: Children's Surgical Centre

Also: France · Hong Kong · Laos · Phnom Penh · Thailand · Watsi

Only in the description or credits: Adobe Premiere Pro · Cambodia · JOBY Gorillapod

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