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A day on Senior Medicine placement - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #05

2017-09-20 · Vlog or day in the life · Ali · recording, 4:12 · watch on YouTube

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

In week two of his 2017 senior medicine placement at King's Lynn Hospital, Ali goes to a 7am circuits class, talks with a palliative care patient, and on an A&E teaching round learns to ask only the important questions; the evening goes on Everwing and the board game Pandemic.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Week two of placement: 7am circuits, then a palliative care patient

  • ★★ Ali is in week two of his final-year senior medicine placement at King's Lynn Hospital. — 00:00:00 · King's Lynn
  • ★★ Ali and his fellow students joined the local gym and signed up for a 7am circuit training class before going in to the hospital, which he calls a silly thing. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ On placement Ali spends a while talking with a palliative care patient, for a seminar where students discuss a palliative case with the consultant and reflect on how it made them feel; he calls it quite an interesting experience. — 00:00:39
  • ★ Ali may talk about his conversation with the palliative care patient later, once he has gathered his thoughts about it. (hedged) — 00:00:39

00:01:08 — Lunchtime Everwing and the A&E teaching session with the emergency medicine consultant

  • ★ Ali recommends the Facebook Messenger game Everwing, which he and his friends play at lunch, calling it surprisingly addictive. — 00:01:08
  • ★★ An emergency medicine consultant takes Ali and three other students round A&E: for a woman with fluid leaking from her nose that could have been cerebrospinal fluid, one student takes a five-minute history and another examines the cranial nerves. — 00:01:08
  • ★★★ Ali says that for two years medical students were trained to go through the whole history, but in A&E they must get into the mindset of asking only the important questions, because there is no half hour to spend with a patient. — 00:01:47
  • ★★ On the A&E round, a woman with chest pain turned out on chest X-ray to have a small lung nodule that could have been cancerous, and the doctor told the students about the sensitive conversation she had with the family. — 00:02:16

00:02:45 — Evening: Everwing, Pandemic and the palliative care essay

  • ★★ Ali likes the board game Pandemic for being collaborative: in competitive games one person wins and everyone else loses, and spending hours trying to screw over your friends is draining. — 00:03:15 · Pandemic
  • ★ Ali and his fellow students end the day on a palliative care essay due the next day that very few of them have started. — 00:03:44

In the description and comments

  • ★★ Ali writes that this day was pretty representative of a standard day on placement, which made it tricky to turn into an entertaining video. — video description

Mentioned

Central: King's Lynn

Also: Everwing · Pandemic

Only in the description or credits: University of Cambridge

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