WEEK AS A MEDICAL STUDENT _ SURGERY & HOW I STUDY

This video is sponsored by The Great Courses Plus, but more on that later. Hello everybody and welcome to another vlog with me. We are going to take a surgery internship readiness course and what this class is, is it's a month-long series of lectures. So basically I'm going back to the desk, I'm going back to writing down in my computer and watching lectures about various things in surgery. We're going to review anatomy dissections, learn how to run codes, documentation. I'm super excited because I haven't been back in a classroom setting with my notebook and my computer and my snacks in a long, long time. It's been like two years since I've been back in that setting. So I'm super excited and this is kind of like my last elective before I graduate medical school and get my doctorate of medicine. So I'm just, I'm happy to come full circle and get back into the classroom. I'm a big snacker, especially when I'm studying and learning in the classroom. So to kind of stay engaged because I don't really drink caffeine, I have some original Triscuits. This is a vegan dip. This is peanut butter, just skippy peanut butter with some apples and then I'll have a kind bar. So I'm going to have a lunchbox filled with awesome snacks to keep me engaged in class. So I have my lunch ready. I'm gonna go work out right now, do some yoga, come back, take a shower and then head to bed and then get up at a comfortable time to head to class. Alright guys, so I am showered and getting ready to go to bed. So I will see you guys in the morning. Bye everyone! Okay guys, put together a little school look. This is lip gloss and concealer, mascara and some earrings because I'm wearing foundation for many hours throughout the day. I feel pretty gross. So this is something that makes me look less dead. I mean more awake but still something fun to do in the morning to feel better or look better. Alrighty guys, so I'm going to grab my backpack which is all packed and I'm ready to go to school. On the way to school and I can't help but feel like this time I'm going to be a lot more appreciative of lecture especially since I know how hard work is or what it's like to work. I'm not going to be a spoiled brat who isn't on time, is unorganized or just doesn't want to be there which I'm pretty sure I remember being very often but now that I know what life is like when you don't get to be at school. I don't know, it's just been a long time since I've been doing something that I'm actually good at and I just can't wait to be back. Oh it's a beautiful day outside. Hey guys, so I just finished my first day. It was basically just an orientation day where we got to talk to the attending and what is expected from us out of this class and also to do a practice case together. I don't know, I just kind of remembered or actually realized that I forgot a whole bunch of things like how much fluid a person needs, what antibiotics to start. So I think I'm going to start some sort of review during this month to kind of go over basic principles in surgery. Oh right, I'm pulling up into a Goodwill right now. Sure, so as a lot of you probably know this is my last year living here and so I've been thinking a lot about getting rid of clothes and furniture and books that I don't need any longer because that's just a whole bunch of stuff that I don't want to move later. I'm actually going to move in May. I don't have to live here anymore or June, May or June and if I get a job because if I don't get a job then I'm going to renew my apartment and just keep living here or maybe I'll do a live with my parents. I don't know but I will be moving somewhere this summer. This is it, this is the end so it's kind of crazy because I've lived here forever but you know, gotta gotta keep moving, gotta keep progressing and bouncing around from city to city until you finally have a job. We are back at home and this is my white board over here. These are the list of things I try to do every single day like practice gratitude. I have a journal right here that's supposed to help improve gratitude and overall positivity in your life. I can link the video of the idea behind this and where to buy this book if you're interested and then I try to practice Duolingo Spanish because I have a feeling I'm going to be needing Spanish as a doctor in my intern year. I try to exercise every day usually with yoga or some sort of aerobic activity. Online medded intern guide. I bought the intern content so I can kind of learn you know the rules and Dr. Williams guide on to how to be an excellent intern and then I'm going to add something else. I need to start reviewing content, oh god, uh reviewing content for intern year so I kind of want to go over online medded, sketchy, farm so that I can kind of remember all of the things I learned in medical because it's been a while. So I'm going to take my whiteboards book from online medded and go over his videos. We should probably go over the surgery content. I just watch like one or two videos a day, nothing crazy. I definitely don't try to stress myself out doing things that aren't necessary because really none of this is necessary. You'll be surprised that you know if you watch a video every day you've finished all of his videos within like a couple months so uh doing a little bit a day is kind of the key to how I kind of perceive being successful. My snack situation was excellent today, had a lot of wonderful snacks so I'm just basically repacking the same lunch and then I'm making my breakfast for tomorrow which will consist of overnight oats just because it is so easy to make and really cheap to make too. Breakfast for the morning and now our lunch is packed so that is all out of the way, don't have to worry about doing this later on tonight. I have a huge desire to go to sleep but instead I'm going to eat and I made this yesterday. Lemon tilapia with tons of broccoli and then after that we're going to do some yoga, maybe exercise to kind of get energized instead of going to sleep. Let's do it a more productive way. The stuff you can just look down at and read off during rounds. EMR can be used efficiently, anyone can. Okay and now it's time to write in my gratitude journal. Just talk about what you are thankful for in life. On the 31st of January I said that I was grateful for apples and peanut butter, for my friend, my friends, for Calix, for being able to travel and in life in general I am thankful for being disease and pain free. Last month I was working a lot with chronic pain patients and so I was particularly grateful for that. I'm grateful to be loved and appreciated by many people. By many people I mean like five but that's a lot to me and I was even grateful for my wonderful job or future job as a doctor because, I don't know, I mean when you work with patients you get reminded again and again about how wonderful and just purposeful your job is and I am just so thankful for that so I commonly put that in my book. Today is the third. I know that because rent was due. What am I grateful for today? Okay all filled out. I also like to go ahead and knock out my languages. There's an app called Duolingo. It's like an owl. I practice Spanish. I also try to practice German occasionally and if you have this app you really have no reason not to learn a language. So as you can tell I've been I've been doing this for a while now so let's go ahead and do this lesson. So for instance it asks you to translate this phrase which means this city has a lot of banks so yeah basically that's the gist. Apparently part of this surgical internship readiness course is we're going to get paged on our cell phones about fake patients and I just got my first page so let's see what happens guys. Hi D! I'm America. I received a mock page from this number. Yes you did. Did anything happen to him overnight? His blood pressure's 142 over 84. Heart rate's 98. Respiration's 24. His temperature is 37. Okay. Okay. Sounds good. All right. Good job. Thank you. What? Oh man oops I hung up on her. Yeah I have no idea if I did that correctly. Pretty exhausted so I'm going to go take a quick nap and then maybe afterwards when I wake up I can review some surgery notes but I cannot take it any longer so I will see you guys in hopefully one or two hours. All right guys so I accidentally fell asleep for two and a half hours. I am energized all over again and am ready to go to the gym so let's go. Sufficiently sweaty enough. Alrighty back from the gym so gonna go ahead and start with a small salad while watching you. Oh yes my baked salmon is ready. Ah nothing like a new candle. Okay guys. Ah! What is that thing doing here? Calyx! Look at that thing. Get it. Calyx! I'm gonna keep and kill that thing. Alrighty guys I'm going to end the rest of the night. It's 10 30 right now. I'm just going over some content from the surgery lectures on online med ed. Let's just review a few things and not look stupid and turnier. And because drugs can do whatever they want, you've got wonder drugs not assigned because of the W's. Remind you that at any time... All right two lectures down. I am officially tired. It is now midnight. We'll see you guys in the morning so good night everyone. It isn't a morning if Calyx isn't trying to drink from the faucet. All right I gotta go. Another page on my way. Hi there I got a call from here. Um a page. Yes this is uh Dr. Rivera? Yes. Um I have your patient here. There's a left hand. There it is. And you want to try this one? Put it in that trachea that we saw. Head is hyperextended. Add air. Hopefully that'll inflate. No that doesn't look good. Baby's dying. We try again. Got some time for my next class. Two hours so enjoy my lunch. Maybe watch YouTube. Oh my gosh such a long day. I'm just gonna eat a small salad and uh enjoy some you. All right guys back from the gym. Let's go ahead and knock out some homework. Take some notes and go to sleep super soon. Tradition and conformity and security less than people low and opens. Hopefully this will keep me busy because I have to stay um till 3 p.m. Then I have a meeting at 5 30 so I'll be at school for a long long time. Lectures today. Let's see if we can do it. Some food and you in the cafeteria. All right everyone so I just finished another psychology lecture. Took some notes and now I am here with my lunch for tomorrow. This is menudo which is like a hispanic dish made out of intestines I think. Snack bar. We got some berries, pistachios, peanut butter, and apples because that's just like the thing I cannot let go because I have a full day of school tomorrow from 8 to 3 p.m. So if you want to come with me on a seven hour day at school and trying to be productive and live through it all then we'll see what happens tomorrow. All right guys last day of school so let's get to it. So I'm all the way at school and it got canceled so uh that sucks but um I don't know how to make this positive. Now you're able to study at your own pace. I just wish maybe it would have happened before I decided to get completely ready and maybe sit through rush hour traffic to get here but hey what can you do. All right well we're back home. While I have some free time I'm gonna go ahead and get back to studying the things that we've been learning in class lately and while I do so I think it'd be fun to go ahead and give you guys some study tips on how I stay motivated to learn and how I study. Okay so I'm in class and the teacher is about to start a PowerPoint. So I go to my computer and I open Microsoft OneNote. This is what I use to take all of my notes. OneNote is great because you can organize them by subjects and these are the different pages so like a new page for every class. So I go down here I can title it I don't know anything and then you can just type anywhere that you want and start typing where you want your notes to be. You can drag it and highlight things anything you can do in Microsoft Word you can do here. But one thing that I really like about it is you can just drag pictures from the notes from online anywhere onto your notes and voila now you can type around the picture or what have you and so this is what my notes typically look like. For instance this is all words one picture and this is a lot more pictures and notes kind of like all around. Yeah that's kind of this is how I kind of make my notes. I find it helpful to have both words but also have pictures because I'm also a lot of a visual learner so this definitely helps me. When I'm taking notes with online med ed I love their whiteboard book because like I said I'm kind of a visual learner and his diagrams and advanced organizers are super helpful for me to learn you know various pathology and diseases. Earlier this week we learned about intubation so I have their worksheet right here and one other thing I do is I have a whiteboard which a lot of you guys know about this technique my fake iPad and I actually just bought some new markers. These are at Expo fine tip so let's take some of these out. As practice I can go over the worksheet and then I can list out the steps of intubation. You position the head and neck open mouth take the blade under the epiglottis pull towards you but avoiding teeth so on and so forth. And I practice the steps of intubation without looking at my notes and once I can write them all I know that I know how to intubate somebody or at least in theory I know how to intubate somebody. As far as how I stay motivated I think that it has a lot to do with the fact that I've been through clinicals I know what it's like to work super long hours and work from basically 6am to 6pm and also I know what it's like to constantly have no idea what I'm doing. You know I haven't really been a doctor or practiced the doctor life for very long maybe you know two years max but I've been a student for a long long time. I've been in school for 20 years now and I am pretty good at studying being motivated and being fascinated by whatever I'm studying. It also helps that I really like science and I happen to be in the science field. But I guess I've gained a bit of appreciation for education. I miss learning I miss people actively teaching me. I mean not being completely responsible for teaching myself everything. I miss sitting down comfortably in a chair for only four to five hours and then going home and doing whatever you want. So I've gained a new appreciation for education and I even go out of my way to learn new subjects on the side which brings me to my next topic. So Great Courses Plus is a subscription on demand video learning service where you can learn from top professors from all over the world. 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