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A day on GP placement - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #27

2018-03-10 · Vlog or day in the life · Ali · recording, 5:44 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Medicine and his doctor years · mode: Demonstration and walkthrough · tags: Aimed at students

Ali vlogs day three of his final-year GP placement in Norfolk: the clinics students run themselves and the patients he saw (arthritis, scalp psoriasis, fainting, polymyalgia rheumatica, a possible chest infection), a trip to the beach, a tour of the placement cottage and an evening preparing for the Prescribing Safety Assessment.

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00:00:00 — Day three of the GP placement; running late for the first clinic

  • ★★ Ali vlogs day three of his GP placement to show what happens on a standard day in general practice. — 00:00:00

00:00:24 — Morning clinic: how the students' clinics run; arthritis, scalp psoriasis and fainting

  • ★★ On the GP placement the students normally run two clinics a day, morning and afternoon, seeing two to four patients each, doing the talking and the notes; then a doctor comes in to check and prescribe. — 00:00:24
  • ★★ On his GP placement Ali sees a patient with arthritis and orders a full range of blood tests to make sure it is wear and tear rather than an inflammatory condition. — 00:00:42
  • ★ For a patient with what they thought was scalp psoriasis, Ali and the GP placement team prescribe a steroid gel. — 00:00:42
  • ★★ A patient with random fainting episodes over several years is booked for 24-hour ECG heart monitoring to rule out an abnormal heart rhythm. — 00:00:42

00:01:25 — Off to the beach on a sunny day

00:02:29 — Afternoon clinic: polymyalgia rheumatica and a possible chest infection

  • ★★ In the afternoon clinic Ali sees a patient with polymyalgia rheumatica, which causes stiffness in the shoulders, neck and hips, and they give him steroids. — 00:02:29
  • ★★ Ali says steroids are an almost magical treatment for polymyalgia rheumatica: within a day or two patients feel much better and can move around, a life-changing treatment. (hedged) — 00:02:29
  • ★ A patient with a possible chest infection is sent for a chest X-ray and given antibiotics. — 00:02:29

00:03:10 — Tour of the cottage for the six-week placement

  • ★ Ali and Rachel, a fellow student, stay in a little cottage for the six weeks of the GP placement, which he finds a nice location. — 00:03:10
  • ★★ In the evening Ali prepares for the Prescribing Safety Assessment and edits video and drone shots for Instagram. — 00:04:00

00:04:14 — Evening: preparing for the Prescribing Safety Assessment, editing, the pub; sign-off

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