My Super Productive Week at Medical School // Peter Le

Hey guys, hope you guys are well. Welcome back to my channel. Today, it is a Wednesday. We're starting a new block this semester. It's neurology. So everything to do with like brain, do your spinal cord. But today I don't have to go into med school. But what I do need to do is get on top of the content and study. But obviously I'm not going to do that right now. I am going to go to the gym. I think having balance in your life, particularly when you're like stressed, will help you sustain long energy periods. And help you actually sustain like a healthy lifestyle, which I think is so important. I'm going to start off the day with movement. And we're going to move. Alright guys, we are home. It is now time to clean the dishes that I forgot to wash last night. And then make some lunch. Let's just skip over to that part. Alright guys, lunch has been made. Cleaned up the kitchen. So time to eat some lunch. What I made for lunch was a rice, chicken, tuna, egg bowl. Not sure if you guys can see it. Yeah, recently I've been trying to eat healthier. I do want to achieve a certain physique. And one of the most important things, if not the most important when trying to look aesthetic, but also feel good, is like what you put into your body. So I've been really conscious about what I've been putting into my body. I'm opting for a high protein diet. And for anyone who wants to look good, it's important to train hard at the gym. But what's more important is what you put into your body. You guys can have the first bite. It is very protein heavy. There's a lot of protein in here. It's delicious. I think recently I've been trying to train really hard at the gym. It's been really, really tiring. If you don't train hard, you don't necessarily see a lot of muscle growth. It's when you add more tension and stress and resistance and the muscles are under tension for a lot longer. That's when you see a lot of like more muscle growth. So if you go into the gym and you're not training necessarily like until failure, you're not going to see heaps of muscle growth. You may maintain your body mass and stuff like that. But yeah, I want to grow a lot more muscles. So I've been training really hard. So I also think from like this year to the end of the year, I want to focus on doing difficult things, if that makes sense. I'm someone that always wants to grow personally and improve myself in all aspects of life. And one of the best ways to do that is to put yourself in difficult situations and hard situations. Not necessarily all the time, but I've noticed that for me and for anyone that wants to improve on themselves, change often comes when you feel most uncomfortable and when the path isn't necessarily clear. Whenever you're doing something, if it's easy, it's not very intellectually stimulating or physically stimulating. And you can get into a habit of compliance and get into the routine of just being lazy. For example, if I was to finish studying, one thing that would be difficult is like going for a run. It's in those times where you feel uncomfortable, particularly like when running, right? Very uncomfortable, where you develop like a really good habit and also just put yourself in a position where you can like grow. Anyways, I'm going to finish eating. I also like to watch Netflix while I eat. It's a time where I can kind of just like fully relax and let my mind run and stuff like that. Alright guys, I hope you guys are all well. I just want to take a quick moment to talk about and thank today's vlog sponsor, Notion. If you've been following the channel for a while, you know that I use Notion quite a bit to organise not only like my life, but also more importantly, med school. Is med school more important than life? Yeah, I guess it is. Given that back to school season is officially here, life and just your like school life can get really, really chaotic. 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First part will be content for this week. Then second part will be something called clinical skills. Given that like this block and particularly this week we're focusing on neuro, that means that we have to learn a lot of the clinical skills that are needed for when a patient is coming in presenting with a neurological disease. So what I mean by that is whenever you come into like your GP, if there are certain, if you have like, for example, trigeminal neuralgia, that would present very differently to someone having a seizure. And it's important for us to understand, you know, what that patient would present with, as well as other disease that might not be very easy to diagnose off of face value. So there are certain questions that like we are trained and taught to ask and remember, as well as certain physical examinations that will help determine whether a patient is experiencing some sort of neurological disorder. For example, you got like three main cranial nerves that control like the movement of your eyes. But depending on whether your eye deviates when you're trying to focus or like if it can't abduct or adduct, would determine and give us a good idea of like which cranial nerve is being suppressed or which cranial nerve has a malfunction in it. And this is all really important for like helping correctly diagnose a patient so that we can correctly and quickly treat whatever it is that's going on. There's three exams that we have to remember, like your facial neuro exam. And then you have upper limb from like your waist up and then your lower limb. This semester, I have clinical skills every Thursday. So every Thursday will be either taught or examined a new aspect of the block clinically. For then given that today is a Wednesday, I kind of want to go through that whole practical examination. The one that I learned last week just to consolidate and see if there's any gaps in my knowledge. And it's a really good way for me to practice and use something called active recall. Whenever I'm like explaining something to you guys, I am practicing active recall. So it's like really good benefit for me to kind of like show you guys what it's like to study med, what's like to be in med and also like help explain something so you guys can understand it a little bit better. By doing that, I'm actually using active recall because I'm forcing my brain to retrieve all that information. I'm just going to share my screen on my iPad. This is what a physical exam perineal nerve checklist looks like. And it kind of goes through each box, what you need to assess and what you need to look out for. And also what you need to comment on. So like the first one here, initiating the examination, I got to introduce myself, obtain consent, hand hygiene and position the patient in the right spot. And then there are so many different tests that we have to remember for all the cranial nerves. You got 12 cranial nerves? See if I can remember. Olfactory, optic, oculomotor. Oh man. Trachea, trigeminal, abdicum, vestibular, trachea. I know that you also have your vagus, hyperglossal, glossopharyngeal. What am I missing? Glossopharyngeal. Okay, I don't know all that. So let me just run through that again for my sake. Olfactory one. Olfactory, optic, oculomotor, trachea, trigeminal. And there's three trigeminal nerves. You got your ophthalmic, your maxillary, and then your mandibular. So like V1, V2, V3. And then you have your abdicums, which is six. Seven is vestibular, trachea. So that's like your ear. But yeah, as you guys can see, for the optic cranial nerve in particular, there's like so many things that we're testing. Visual acuity, visual fields, sensory inattention, pupil response. And then like this diagram here I just drew, because you have your nasal and temporal retina. The way your eyes input like information, it's like diagonally. It's not straight on. And then there's a bunch for like your trigeminal nerve and stuff like that. So I'm just going to go through all of that right now and consolidate on things that I don't know, so that later on when I do revisit this, it's a lot easier. And like I can come to it a lot quicker. Abdicums is six. Seven is facial. A sheet. And depending on if they get it all right, I mean like six, six, going down in the midline. And as soon as they can see it in the periphery, they touch yes. And then we switch it. Cool. See, we can push down the eyebrows. See, they resist. If they can't, you see like shaking of the eyes as they move left or right or up. Glossopharyngeal. Oh, it's time to. Cool. I think that went all right. Besides me not knowing the cranial nerves. Quick. What are the 12 cranial nerve guys? I'll give you 12 seconds to do it with a timer here. All right. So if you answered that the 12 cranial nerves are your olfactory, optic, oculomotor, trachea, facial. No, not facial. Facial seven. Trigeminal. Opticans. Facial. Vestibular trachea. Facial vestibular trachea. Glossopharyngeal. Vagus essentially. Hyperglossal. Then you are correct. Yay. I wasn't looking at anything. I was just like deep in thought. This is just like, yeah. Cool. All right. Now that that's done, I'm going to focus on the content. I just want to quickly go through some of it so you guys know what I'm studying. Learning about the cerebellum. It has different lobes of the cerebellum. There's the anterior, posterior, and then something called your follicular something lobe. And then we're also learning about headaches, seizures, and strokes. The way you differentiate the two is a seizure is abnormal neuronal activity within your brain. Whereas a stroke is when there is like a blockage of the blood flow to your brain. All right. And that's really bad because your neurons, which are the cell bodies that help transmit electrical signals and information from your brain. So like various parts of your body, they require a lot of blood flow. Blood is what carries oxygen. A lot of glucose. So whenever there is a reduction or a pause in your blood flow, your brain or your certain neurons are not getting enough oxygen, which is bad. But yeah, essentially, I'm going to go through all of the learning objectives and then watch a couple of videos on YouTube. I feel like a lot of the content is explained a lot better on YouTube just so it can help with my conceptualization and then go through Anki cards. And once again, trying to use active recall so that I can consolidate on a lot of information. That means we are getting into bed. Today's going to be a pretty busy day. I've got one class, but just a lot of content to go through. And as I said yesterday, that class is teaching us like the clinical skills for today. I haven't packed any lunch. So we're going to buy some lunch either when I get to med school or just before. And I'm going to buy some like snacks and stuff as well. Because I think I'm going to stay late to study and get as much work done as possible. As I said, guys, we do have a test tomorrow. So I just want to prepare well for that and prepare as best as I can for tests. And so that like this week's content is like consolidated in my brain. So when I am going to revise upon it again, it's like actually there. You know what I'm saying? Like it's not like I'm learning stuff for the first time. For those of you who don't know, you can watch that vlog here. But I basically did an all nighter because I was really bad with my time management throughout that vlog. And yeah, I would not wish that upon my worst enemy. That was just pain, like straight up pain and torture. But yeah guys, today's going to be mostly studying. You're going to see what the Thursday for me looks like. Hopefully I'll see if I can record some stuff during clinical skills when I'm practicing. I am in a new class. So like see if I show up. But yeah, it should be good. That's not true either. Oh, I actually don't know. Wait, no, no, no. You're right here. Or isn't. OK, fine. Fine. Watch this. What does it do? Have empty eyes. Yeah. OK, so I'm going to get you to. So I'm going to get you to put your arms like this. And then I want you to resist me. Yeah. Let's make it like 90 degrees. 90 degrees? That's 45. So I'm going to push down. Oh, my God. Yes, yes, yes. Yeah. And then I'm going to go like this. Yeah. Wait, so right now. No, no, no. If you're doing this. I'm going to try to do this. No, you're resisting. You're asking. Yeah. I used to know this. And then you're like this. And then I'm trying to pull away while you're. I get that, but what is that called? Adduct. You're trying to adduct me. Yeah. Hello. My name is Abdul. I'm a second year English student. I want to do a mirror exercise with you. Is that okay? That's okay. We're good. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can I touch your hands? Yeah. Is that okay? Yeah, that's okay. All right. I'm just going to get you to hold your arms up 90 degrees. And I'm going to push down on them all the way to the front. All right. Break equal strength. The power of five. So power of five. And that's five. All right, guys. Hope you guys are all well. I am so sorry. Today is a Friday, 3.40 p.m. I didn't record when I got home because I got home quite late. And all I did was a little bit more revision and then went to sleep. Today we had tests. Yeah, it was on stroke and like the cerebellum and just like a big emphasis on headaches, strokes, treatment, medications, and more importantly, like the cerebral vascularization. Yeah. I think I did all right in the IRAT. So the test, I think I got eight out of ten or seven out of ten. A couple of things that I had no idea or like I studied, but I didn't study hard enough. I got tested. It was the Purkinje fibers. I didn't know they were important for inhibition. Got that one wrong. That's okay. Good to know that those are the areas that I need to work on for our exam in a couple of weeks. But yeah, I got home, ran some errands, bought some like groceries, mostly just like tuna and like protein, coffee, and then had some lunch with Jazz. But yeah, now I'm going to do, I've actually got some things planned. I'm going to go for a run with my mate Peter in a bit and then go to the gym and then relax because I've got footy tomorrow morning. So all in all, I hope you guys enjoyed the vlog. I know it was only like covering two days, but yeah, I hope it gave you like a little insight into like what my semester has been like and what I do. But yeah guys, as always, thank you so much for the support. I would not be in this position without any of you guys. So I'm really, really grateful. You guys give me the opportunity to have pretty much the best job in the world and that's to like make content and share, you know, my life with you guys. And I really do appreciate every single one of you. I've liked mentoring you all and I will see you guys very shortly in the next one. Bye.