WEEK AS A MED STUDENT (plastic surgery, creating my resume)

Hello, everybody, and welcome back to my channel. I wonder if Jeffree Star has a copyright on that. So, yes, it's just me, nothing abnormal. Oh, wait, wait, hold up. What is that? Yes, this happened. I finally, after like five months, got my plaque, which says, presented to America Revere for passing 100,000 subscribers. Here is my letter saying that I got into medical school. Here is a very appropriate sign, the struggle is real. And that is my degree from University of Texas at Austin with my BS in nutrition with high honors. I've been to people's houses before and they have like huge walls filled with trophies from like the organizations and the sports and all of their academic awards that they've gotten. And I have like literally two awards. And this one doesn't even really count as an award because it's just a letter. Here's my YouTube award. And this was like a diploma, which also really isn't an award, it's an achievement. Sometimes I get a little bit, I don't know, insecure about the fact that I really haven't been awarded much in my life. I mean, I'm a pretty smart girl, but I've never won like a scholarship or a award for being abnormally smart, because I guess I'm not abnormally smart. And this is pretty much my first award to have gotten in my entire life. And it has nothing to even do with my ability to be smart. It's a YouTube trophy, which I mean, hey, I'm super proud of it. I don't know what that means. You know, an award is an award. And even though my wall is small, I am still very proud of where I am in life and still think that I'm pretty special. Here are my list of things that I've been doing today. Yes, shower was number one, that was much needed. My nails, because look good, feel good. Review the Uworld questions I did yesterday. 40 Uworld questions I still have to do. I reviewed some notes and did my weekly quiz. As some of y'all may know, I'm currently on my plastic surgery rotation, which I have been actually enjoying quite tremendously. My residents are very nice. I work with a really awesome medical student and we do like the coolest surgeries in the world. Just to name a few, we do things like fix people's broken jaws. We do nose jobs, breast augmentations, breast reductions, implants, decubitus ulcer repair. Plastic surgeons actually can do like anything. They can do anything in the arm. They can do the eye. They can do the jaw, the nose, breast, stomach, legs, feet, hands. They can do all over the body, which is an awesome superpower that they have. And then every other day or so we have clinic, see how their breast augmentations are going, take out their drains, take out their stitches. I'm actually really excited for this upcoming week and it should go fabulously. I'm done with a lot of my work pretty early, so I'm going to go get ready for bed and do my UWorld questions and then go to sleep. Just trying to study, guys. This is a good problem. Well, good night, everybody. We'll see you in the morning. Okay, guys, currently dressed for a day of clinic. Packed lots of food and we're ready to go to school. Hi, guys. So I just came back from our outpatient clinic and in this clinic we do various things, Botox injections and lip fillers and typically some minor procedures. Right now I'm going to go to trauma clinic now where we handle more acute trauma incidents rather than cosmetic procedures, including we check on people who had lost their finger or had a broken nose or a broken jaw. So it's about to get more intense at trauma clinic, but still fun nonetheless. Hey, guys, so I am back home from work. Trauma clinic was epic as always. During trauma clinic, medical students get to do really fun stuff like remove stitches, which is actually really, really easy if you have the right tools. People are always looking forward to getting their stitches removed, so being that person is always pretty awesome. I'm about to take my laptop and work on Uworld questions for the remainder of my day. Now I'm just gonna throw my laptop. Nah, I'm just kidding. Calix is right there. Plastic surgery is pretty cool because we have really great work hours. Like right now it's 6.30 and I've been at home for like two hours relaxing and now I have the rest of the night, about three hours to do Uworld questions, eat and relax in bed. If you look up the positions who have the best satisfaction, least stress and least burnout, plastic surgeons are usually in the list, so so far so good. Okay, finally done. Let's see how I did. Hey, nice. All right, guys, headed to school right now. We have a few operations to do. Should be fun. Hey, guys, so it is two o'clock and I'm already going home. Awesome hours in plastic surgery. Get caught up on all the homework and tasks and research and projects and assignments and quizzes and studying and preparing for stuff and just a whole bunch of stuff. It's all good. Just gonna go do that. So let's go head home. Okay, I'm home. First thing I'm gonna do is eat the lunch that I packed but didn't get a chance to eat because I was in one surgery that lasted like seven hours. The Rainbow Bridge, really pretty thing to look at in the morning. Today we have a lot of operations to go to, which I hear require a lot of stitching, aka med student participation. Then I have volunteering later today. I'm going to be at the hospital from six to 6.45 today, so should be fun. Hey, guys. Stupid little robots. So currently about to go into my second case for the day. Not sure if there will be a third one, but so far this is my second. Should be interesting, fun, get to suture and sew and really help with the team, so that's always good. I'm gonna head out now. Just finished. Time to go get some food and then I have a few classroom activities. Hey, guys. So I did some volunteering at a student-run free clinic, which means that you get to see a medical student or a resident for free. Typically people who come to our clinic come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, and so we're always happy to see them and give them the care that they so desperately need. And we saw a lot of awesome cases today. So I had a really awesome day, but now I'm ready to go home because I've been awake since 5 a.m. giving patient care and I could really use some American care. Okay, guys, ending the night kind of late, around 11.15. Gonna read through some notes that Felix would get off of them and then end my night because I am exhausted. So good night, everybody. All right, guys, so it is lunchtime. Telling myself that I deserve this even though I really don't. We are putting on arch bars. If someone's ever wired shut, this is one of the options that there is. It's a little bit more intense. We get these cool heads. And this is my little thing. We have a lot of period tools that we can use to fix these fractures. Hey, guys, so I'm walking around with my skull. I have an overnight shift at the trauma center today, so I'm pulling a 24-hour shift on a Thursday. I'm really kind of tired, really wish I was home with Calix, but alas, I have to pull this shift. Okay, guys, I think it's like 10 o'clock now and I am headed to my first OR case. Always interesting stuff. Can't believe that I'm about to pull a 24-hour shift, but hey, it's my last one, so peace out, 24-hour shifts. Well, not yet, still have to go to surgery. All right, later. All right, well, that was pretty quick, but fun nonetheless. Okay. Toodle-oo, trauma room. This is me and my skull. It reminds me of how I look right now. Okay, I think I could just fall asleep right here. Calix, can you stop being weird, please? Literally the most embarrassing cat ever. Calix, how can you never show me love like this? Calix, stop this right now. Okay, guys, on this episode of Adora and America Cook, we are making pizza. I'm going to Texas, but the point is, this girl lives or spends a lot of time. Hey, guys, so it's super, super late in the day. It's 4.37. Adora is passed out on the couch. Calix is here being annoying. I get super, super efficient at night, and obviously that's not very common with most people's sleep, but I feel like I come alive. So I did a whole bunch of things that I've been needing to do for my future. I did some research. This, this, I gotta do that, but if you see this, then it means I did number eight. And then I have a few other things to do Saturday and Sunday. Anyways, that's the night for me, guys. I will see you tomorrow, bye. Morning, everybody, it is Sunday now. My Saturday was just out spending time with some friends, but now it's time to get back to work. Of course, I have to start my day doing you world questions, because that's basically my life, just doing you world questions all the time. I have some homemade pizza from a couple days ago and some Diet Coke to kind of get that started with. Then I will review three chapters of notes in my book, take the weekly quiz that we have, and then I have to work on my resume. So come and help me with that, because that's gonna be crucial to doing well like for the rest of my life. Okay, guys, so I have finished my quiz. So now it is officially time to start working on my CV or my resume, which I am a little bit nervous about, because I don't really like to think about what I have or haven't done, but I have to think about that right now. So the whole point of a resume is you're trying to sell yourself. You are, and then if you're in my case and you're applying to surgery residencies, you are dying to sell yourself so that people want you, because especially if you have low self-confidence like myself, it's really hard to type yourself up, especially to very intimidating, powerful people. But nonetheless, I think I have made something that will make me stand out and seem educated and smart. For leadership and community service, one important thing that I did and vlogged and you guys probably know about is I was involved in the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Interest Group. Basically ran it all by myself. I was able to be mentored by plastic surgeon, Dr. Bio Lois. Through her, I was able to get students to shadow with her. I ran a suture clinic and we had interest meetings. I was secretary in AMWA, which is the American Medical Women's Association. We advocated for women in medicine and were able to raise like $2,000 through all of our fundraising. And then I don't know if this is something I should include, but I was also officer for Egophony, which is my medical school's acapella group. And we were able to sing at Night of the Arts, which is like this fine arts talent show. And we were able to Christmas carol at the pediatric ICU at our hospital. These are just some interesting tidbits. I obviously care for the arts. I obviously have always been interested in surgery. And of course I'm interested in women advocacy. So, okay. And then for research, I think this is super cool. I didn't know this. I did a lot of research when I was an undergrad at UT. And I just found out that last, or two years ago, the project that I was working on for like three years at UT finally got published. So I'm actually a published person. I actually have a research article that's pending publication. It was about anesthesia, and I was able to do a lot of presentations. I was even able to do an oral and poster presentation at SURF, which is a pretty big deal, I think. That's what people tell me. And then I'm currently working on this other project that you guys have been helping me with. And thank you to everyone who's filled in the online survey. I really do appreciate that. I've done a few other research projects, but they kind of like came to a halt. Never finished, never went anywhere. And so I don't think I'm going to include those because if anybody asks me about it, I'm not gonna know what to say. For employment, I actually have worked with Uber and with Lyft, but I don't know if I should include those because I just don't know how interesting that would be. But obviously something that I've kind of thought about including is my YouTube channel. And the reason that I'm kind of iffy about including it or not in my resume is because I tend to be tried kind of funny and realistic in my videos, which means that I may not always be positive and endearing as I want my program directors to see me. But through my YouTube channel, I've actually been able to do quite a lot of things and I've had a lot of opportunities. So I've decided to include it. So far, I am a medical student vlogger and we have 124,000 subscribers. So thank you to everyone who's following me. You are just, you're one of literally the proudest things on my resume that I've ever done. All of you guys really, I can't thank you enough for giving me something outside of medical school to love and do and to be passionate about. Cumulatively, I've had 8 million views on my YouTube channel, which is extremely exciting. I can't, I look at 8 million, I'm just like, that is absolutely insane. Through my YouTube channel, I've been invited to speak at a lot of universities, including University of Texas, San Antonio, shout out, Watson Pre-Health Society of St. John's University in New York, University of Houston, Texas State University. And soon I will be speaking at my alma mater at UT Austin. And by the way, if any of you would like for me to speak at your university, please let me know because I don't think I've said no to anybody yet. I would do whatever it takes to teach you to meet all of you guys and show my appreciation. Some fun social media collaborations I've had are Sketchy Medical, Online Med Ed, UAssemblyRx, and UWorld. And for awards and achievements, this section of my resume has always been my saddest section. I have honestly applied to so many scholarships, so many, and I never win. The only other award that I have to my name is my silver play button from YouTube. This makes me really nervous because my resume is filled with a lot of things that aren't really on a lot of other people's resume. So one of two things can happen. One, people can look at my resume and have no idea what I'm talking about because I've never seen anybody with any sort of social media use or think it would be extremely weird to see someone's social media on their resume. Or two, it'll actually be something super unique and interesting that will make me stand out. I have literally no idea what people are going to think, but I think that this is my resume. This is what I've done for the past three years. Obviously, I wish I was smarter, had a better GPA, had a better rank, had more awards and achievements, did more volunteering. But honestly, and no kidding, no jokes or anything, I honestly tried my best in medical school. If I'm not number one in my class, it's not because I didn't try hard. I tried my best. There's just gonna be people who are better at school than you. And I'm okay with that. I'm okay with the fact that I'm not number one in my class. I'm okay with the fact that compared to a whole bunch of other medical students and resident interviewees, I will not stand out in many, many ways. I'm average in so many ways. But in my own special, unique ways, like most of us, we can't stand out somehow. Hopefully someone can see what I've done and thinks of it as a good achievement, as something good, unique, and worth putting on a resume. Okay, a few more things off the list. Now the only thing left to do is this. All righty, everybody. Well, thank you guys so much for watching this vlog. Thank you guys, honestly, for following me along this really difficult journey and giving me some, just a ground while I go through all of this. Me and Kalix love you all so much, and we will see you in our next vlog. Goodbye, everybody.