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Final year exam results - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #39

2018-07-09 (said on 2018-05-12 — implied: date said in the video; uploaded 58 days later) · Vlog or day in the life · Ali, a guest · recording, 5:00 · watch on YouTube

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

On his birthday Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student on placement in King's Lynn, attends an obstetric handover, helps share students' notes in a Google Drive, learns he has passed his final exams and become a doctor, and hears a talk by his director of studies Dr Barclay.

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00:00:00 — Birthday and results day introduction

  • ★★ Ali's birthday is also the day he and his fellow final-year students get their exam results, which decide whether they will become doctors. — 00:00:00

00:00:27 — Morning handover in the obstetric unit, iPads on the delivery unit, the shared notes drive

  • ★★ At the morning handover in the obstetric unit, the night team updates the day team on what happened overnight so that everyone on the team knows what is going on. — 00:00:27 · Obstetrics and gynaecology
  • ★ Women whose labour was not progressing were given prostaglandin pessaries to speed it up. — 00:00:27
  • ★★ The staff on the delivery unit use iPads for everything, with hardly any paper, which Ali finds awesome. — 00:00:50 · iPad
  • ★★ Paul, president of the Medical Education Society, leads an initiative to get medical students to share their notes in an openly accessible Google Drive; Ali, its vice president, is putting the drive together. — 00:00:50 · Paul, Google Drive

00:01:20 — International Nurses' Day at the hospital and drone shots before heading home

  • ★ a guest: The hospital celebrates International Nurses' Day with free tea, coffee and cakes for staff and pictures of nurses who have worked in West Norfolk over the last 70 years. — 00:01:20
  • ★ Before heading home on a sunny day, Ali flies his drone to get shots of King's Lynn. — 00:01:56

00:02:32 — Final exam results come out

  • ★★★ When the results come out, Ali's friends Dr Langman and Dr Sim have passed, and Ali checks his own and has passed too, becoming a doctor on his birthday. — 00:02:32 · University of Cambridge

00:03:12 — Dr Barclay's talk on his career, celebrations and sign-off

  • ★★ Ali calls Dr Barclay an amazing director of studies who cares about the students, reassures them and gets things done, and an inspiration for the kind of doctor he wants to be. — 00:03:12
  • ★★ Dr Barclay gives the newly qualified students a talk on the highs and lows of his medical career, with tips on what he wishes he had known. — 00:03:43

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Dr Barclay · Google Drive · iPad · King's Lynn · Medical Education Society · Norfolk · Obstetrics and gynaecology · Paul

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