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Final year begins - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #01

2017-09-02 · Vlog or day in the life · Ali · recording, 3:18 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Medicine and his doctor years · mode: Reflection and life update · tags: Aimed at students

On the first day of his final year as a Cambridge medical student in 2017, Ali says this year is about learning the business of being a doctor rather than exam marks, and starts vlogging it for people thinking of applying to medicine; the rest of the day goes on jump-starting Callum's car.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — First day of final year: the aims for the year and who the vlog is for

  • ★★★ 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 · University of Cambridge
  • ★★ Ali plans to vlog aspects of life as a final-year medical student throughout the 2017–18 year, whenever something vaguely interesting happens. — 00:00:00
  • ★ The first day of final year at Cambridge begins with an introduction lecture on the aims of the year, part of a series of lectures Ali finds quite good. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ 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 · University of Cambridge
  • ★★ 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
  • ★★ Ali says life in clinical school differs greatly from undergraduate medicine, and applicants get little exposure to it, focusing on lectures and supervisions rather than placements in hospitals. — 00:00:58

00:01:23 — Jump-starting Callum's car after the summer

  • ★ Because most clinical students have cars and go on elective for nine weeks at a time, car batteries often run dry; Ali spends part of the day jump-starting Callum's car. — 00:01:23 · Callum

00:02:40 — End of the day; trying out vlog formats and asking for feedback

  • ★ 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

In the description and comments

  • ★★ Ali writes that he is still learning how to vlog and trying not to care if people think he is weird for carrying a camera around and talking to it. — video description

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