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A day in med school in the Caribbean - St George's University Grenada · Cambridge medic VLOG #37

2018-06-08 · Vlog or day in the life · Ali, Sundas Bece28E736 · recording, 6:12 · watch on YouTube

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

Ali, a Cambridge medical student, spends a day at St George's University, a private medical school in Grenada, shown around by his friend Sundas: second-year small groups run like Cambridge supervisions but with a clinical context, 700-student lectures with attendance clickers, and drone shots of the island.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Arriving at St George's University in Grenada, shown around by Sundas

  • ★★★ Ali, in Grenada, spends a day at St George's University, a private medical school there, to experience life as a medical student in the Caribbean. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Sundas (as heard), who was a student at Cambridge two years earlier, shows Ali around St George's University and its classes. — 00:00:00 · University of Cambridge

00:00:45 — A haematology small group compared with Cambridge supervisions

  • ★★ A one-hour haematology small group of about eight at St George's University felt to Ali like Cambridge's preclinical supervisions: discussion-based, back and forth with the facilitator. — 00:00:45 · Supervision, University of Cambridge
  • ★★★ St George's University students seem to Ali to do clinical work from the start: second-years learn basic sciences in a clinical context, where Cambridge second-years would have done only the sciences. (hedged) — 00:00:45 · University of Cambridge
  • ★ In the St George's University class everyone seemed to Ali to know a lot, such as the types of von Willebrand disease he had never heard of. (hedged) — 00:00:45

00:01:29 — Campus views, the university's history and a pitch to sponsor a return visit

  • ★★ Faculty told Ali that St George's University has been around for 41 years, started off not very good and improved each year into an internationally renowned centre of medical academic excellence. (hedged) — 00:01:29
  • ★ Ali invites St George's University, which advertises where medical applicants go, to sponsor him to come back and make another video about it. — 00:02:07

00:02:35 — Lunch, a mango lassi and plans for the drone

00:03:04 — Drone near the no-fly zone, pharmacology lectures and attendance clickers

  • ★ Flying his drone in Grenada, Ali nearly hit no-fly-zone warnings: the airport is about two miles away and the no-fly zone is a mile-and-a-half radius. — 00:03:04
  • ★★ At St George's University about 700 people sat a two-hour pharmacology lecture on pain; attendance is tracked with personal clickers, linked to each account, used to answer at least one question per lecture. — 00:04:06

00:04:30 — Working on a bench by the sea and sunset drone shots

  • ★★ Ali skips the St George's University students' further two hours of endocrinology lectures, judging four hours in a lecture theatre a poor use of a trip to the Caribbean, and works on a bench overlooking the sea. — 00:04:30

Mentioned

Supervision · University of Cambridge

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