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Finding out my Foundation Year Jobs - Quick update

2018-04-05 · Vlog or day in the life · Ali · recording, 3:11 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Medicine and his doctor years · mode: Reflection and life update · tags: His own numbers

Just after midnight on 5 April 2018 Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, opens his Foundation Programme job allocation on camera: FY1 at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge (two general medicine rotations, then general surgery) and FY2 at West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds (psychiatry, obstetrics and gynaecology, stroke medicine). He then thanks the channel's roughly 8,500 subscribers.

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

00:00:00 — Just after midnight: the foundation job allocation is out on Oriel

  • ★★ Just after midnight on Thursday 5 April 2018 the foundation job allocations come out, and Ali sees on Oriel, the NHS central system for job applications, that his is ready to view. — 00:00:00 · NHS

00:00:29 — Opening the match: FY1 at Addenbrooke's, FY2 at West Suffolk Hospital, the rotations, and staying in Cambridge

  • ★★★ Ali thinks he got one of his top few foundation job choices: his first year at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge and his second at West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds. (hedged) — 00:00:29 · Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
  • ★ Ali says West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds is about a 40-minute drive from Cambridge. — 00:00:29 · Cambridge
  • ★★ Ali hopes to live in Cambridge for both of his foundation years. (hedged) — 00:00:29 · Cambridge
  • ★★★ In his first foundation year at Addenbrooke's Ali will do two general internal medicine rotations, said to be quite tough, then general surgery, so no rest in those 12 months. — 00:00:29 · Addenbrooke's Hospital
  • ★★★ In his second foundation year at West Suffolk Hospital Ali will rotate through general psychiatry, obstetrics and gynaecology, which he thinks he wanted, and stroke medicine. — 00:01:16 · Psychiatry, Obstetrics and gynaecology
  • ★★ Ali is relieved to stay in Cambridge for his two foundation years: he loves Cambridge as a place and thinks his plan is to live there forever. — 00:01:16 · Cambridge
  • ★★ With his foundation jobs known, Ali can start looking at houses, find out who else will be in the area and work out whom to live with. — 00:01:38 · Cambridge
  • ★★ Ali says his YouTube channel has just hit about 8,500 subscribers and thanks viewers for caring about his content enough to subscribe. (hedged) — 00:01:38

00:01:58 — Thanks for about 8,500 subscribers, YouTube as a side project, and a study-with-me vlog to come

  • ★★ Ali says he will definitely keep his YouTube channel going for at least his two foundation years, if not much longer. — 00:02:01
  • ★★ In his stressful final year, Ali says, YouTube is a fun side project he does with no concern for money or numbers, putting out content he hopes is useful. — 00:02:01
  • ★★ Ali found meeting viewers in person when they came for their Cambridge interviews a pretty incredible experience. — 00:02:44 · Cambridge, Medicine interview
  • ★ Ali hopes his next video will be a study-with-me vlog, as viewers requested. (hedged) — 00:02:44

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Central: Addenbrooke's Hospital · Cambridge

Also: Medicine interview · NHS · Obstetrics and gynaecology · Psychiatry

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