 What is up guys? Karma medic here and welcome back to another dose. So today is the morning of my first exam in my third year of medical school. I'm just doing some last minute revision, going through a bunch of random little facts that I just have to memorize before I walk into the test. I've got everything ready. You know, my see-through pencil case with my pens, papers, erasers, et cetera. I've been studying for about two weeks now with the last week or so, being pretty intensive. So I'm really excited to get this exam over and done with anyways. I've only got a couple of hours before I need to leave the house. So I'm going to do a little bit more studying, make some food, relax, and I'll catch up with you guys later. Enough of that. So I think I'm done reading my notes before I go to this exam. I don't really like to study too much right before the test, because it just sort of freaks me out and gives me a bit of anxiety. But what I do like to do this close to the exam is test my knowledge. So I'm going to go through past paper questions, MCQs and things like that, just to make sure that I actually know everything that I've been studying this whole time. But first, quick break to make some tea. Pack my bag. Now, I'm going to take too many things with me. Pretty much just my iPad in case I want to do some last minute revision, even though I know that I'm almost definitely not going to do any last minute revision, but I just have to take it anyway so that if I wanted to, the option was there. Does anybody else do that? So I'm going to leave the house now and I'll catch up with you guys after the test. Hey, guys, so I'm back home now. Sorry I didn't really film anything while I was out and about today. I'm all done with the exam and thankfully I think it went OK. It went well. So after the exam, we went to one of the local pubs, had a drink and chilled. And then, of course, I just can't help myself. I always want to discuss every single question I can possibly remember from the test. A lot of people don't want to hear anything about the exam when it's done. And other people like myself want to talk about every single question and try and figure out if I got it right or wrong. So yeah, I definitely fall into the second category of those two. Anyways, I did that for a couple of hours, got to chill with everyone from uni. So I think I'm just going to take the rest of the night off, enjoy myself, chill, relax, and yeah, we'll pick up the vlog and continue tomorrow. Good night and I'll see you in a sec. It's tidying that I'm going to do in my room. I feel like I've set up the scene as best as I can. So if you guys couldn't tell already, I've woken up this morning and I feel really inspired to record a video. So that's what I'm going to do right now. That's going to take a couple of hours. So I'm going to get started and I will catch up with you in a bit. I'm chilling here with Dr. Baxter. You guys might know him as the founder of the Medic Life. Hey guys, how's it going? It's Baxter giving the Medic Life. He's treated me to a lovely evening of coffee. We've been chilling and chatting about all kinds of different things. Definitely go check him out. Honestly, he's such a solid guy. He's really trying to help other students get into medical school and he's doing a really good thing. Give him a follow, support him, and show him some love. Today is Wednesday, which means I don't have anything scheduled like clinical placements at the hospital or tutorials, lectures, workshops at university. This vlog is starting a little bit late in the day. It's currently almost 2 p.m. I spend the morning filming two YouTube videos, which you guys will see up on the channel soon. So subscribe if you haven't already. Also, don't forget. So I've decided to stay home today and get ahead on a couple of things that I want to do. Anyways, I'm about to start an intense studying session taking notes on my iPad and I'll explain everything that we're gonna do today. But first, let me grab some coffee and a snack. Got my snack and my coffee at the ready. Now to talk about what we actually have to do today. Let me show you guys. All right, so these are the set of lectures that we had on Monday and then these are the lectures that we're going to have tomorrow on Thursday. Now, since I don't actually attend the lectures in person, I don't need to wait till tomorrow to actually go to the lecture in order to cover that material. I can just start doing it right now. And that's exactly what I'm gonna do. So on Monday, I already covered lectures one to 12 and now I'm gonna cover lectures 12 to 18. Now the way that I'm gonna cover these lectures is using our online lecture capture program. So all the lectures that happen at King's College London in medical school get recorded and uploaded online. And what we have here on the left is the lecture slide. And then on the right is a video feed of the actual classroom so that you can see the professor if he's making any hand gestures, if he's pointing to anything, maybe he's explaining something using a prop. We still get to see all of that when we watch the lecture from home. So right now in third year of medical school, I'm covering the vascular block. And some of the upcoming lectures that I'm gonna cover now are anatomy of the heart and its valves. Then we have diuretics, beta blockers, ACE inhibitors, et cetera. So blood pressure medication or hypertension medication, then resynchronization and cardioversion and end of life care. So yeah guys, I'm just gonna get started going through these lectures one by one, taking notes on my iPad and I'll put up a screen recording of my iPad somewhere over here so you guys can follow along. And I will catch up with you in just a second. Peace. And while I'm here, I wanna give a quick shout out to the sponsor of today's video, Paperlike. Paperlike is of course the screen protector that I use on my iPad. It helps protect my iPad from scratches and also from my greasy fingerprints after I've been writing on it for a whole day. For example, just the other day I scratched my iPad really badly and thank God I had a screen protector on it. I'm not sure if you guys can pick that up in the video. And if I didn't have the screen protector there, well then that would be a scratch in my 1,000 pound screen. As the name implies, it makes writing or drawing on an iPad feel like paper, which is something that I really enjoy. I prefer writing on the iPad with that little bit more traction than you would get if you were just writing directly on the glass. If you wanna learn more about the Paperlike screen protector, I'll leave links in the description down below and in a pinned comment as well. Anyways, let's jump right back into the video. All right guys, so that's it. I'm all caught up now on the lectures for the vascular block, which is really great because now I've covered 50% of the material that's gonna come up on our big exam that we have in January. So I'm gonna take a quick break from studying. Let's go out for a chat on the balcony. It's been a while since we've had a chat out here on the balcony, I really missed it. I just wanted to take a moment to reflect sort of on the videos that I've been making over the last month or two, ever since I started third year medical school. You guys have been showing me some incredible support on pretty much every video I've uploaded. Some of the videos have done extremely, extremely well, better than I could have ever imagined. And yeah, I just wanted to say thank you. I mean, I could have never imagined that people would actually be interested in watching me and my videos. And not only are you guys watching them, you guys are leaving me wonderful comments. You guys are sending me really, really nice messages over on Instagram. And yeah, it's just something that I want you to know that I really appreciate and I'm really, really enjoying this. I'm not gonna lie, it's getting pretty cold out here. I think winter is finally coming to London. The sun is poking its head out every now and again, but not often enough and it's definitely not keeping us warm. We're gonna have to start whipping out the big, fat winter jacket soon. Anyways, let's head back inside and I'll update you on the plans for the rest of the evening. All right, guys, so I did a bunch of other work-related things and it's taken us to about 5 p.m. And as you can see from the door outside, it is absolutely pitch black. Before today, now I finished all of the lectures in the trauma section. So if I'm gonna start doing more lectures, it's gonna be starting a whole new topic, a whole new block. And I don't really feel like doing that right now for a couple of hours because I've already made plans for the rest of the evening. It is currently 7.15 in the morning. It is way too early right now. I'm up because we have early morning teaching at the hospital before the day of clinical placement starts. Let me show you guys what I'm up to today. This is my timetable over here. It's a.m. Monday in week one. So I'm gonna be sitting in with the cardiology nurse for the entire morning and then in the afternoon, I'm gonna be in the cardiology outpatient. So I'm sure I'm gonna see a lot of interesting things today, but the hospital is about an hour away from here so I should probably get going. I've got a bit of a long day ahead of me so after clinical placement, I'm gonna need my laptop and also my iPad. So since our last exam in medical school, we've had a nice two week break from clinical placement where we've only had lectures. So in these lectures, we're covering all the material that we're hopefully going to be seeing over the next couple of weeks on our different clinical blocks. I'm really excited to get back to clinical placement. It was a good break to not have such a hectic schedule for a little bit, but I've missed talking to patients. I've missed being on the wards and seeing what it really goes on in the hospital. So I'm excited that I'm going back. I'm at the hospital so I'll catch up with you guys at lunchtime. Hey guys, so just finished morning teaching and then took a little bit of a break for lunch. Just found a little quiet area outside of the hospital to sit down and chat for five minutes. So for this morning's clinical activity, I was following an ACS nurse, which stands for Acute Coronary Syndrome Nurse. And basically what we were doing was following around the consultant on the ward round, providing any extra information to the patients after the main ward round was done, double checking that the patients understood all of the information that was given to them and that they knew what they were going to do moving forward. And today's teaching was excellent because the consultant that we were with was just such a good teacher. He really took the time to explain everything that was going on very slowly, very simply, and sort of help us as medical students work through how he was reaching different diagnoses, other differentials that we should think about. And honestly, he was just fantastic and I think that's what makes a very good learning experience for medical students on the wards. So yeah, this clinical placement was a success. I'm going to go to the cardiology outpatient clinic and I will catch up with you guys when that is done. I managed to make it onto a fairly empty tube. Finished my afternoon teaching. I'm going to head to campus now and do a couple of hours of work before we have our vision session later on in the evening. And we'll catch up with you guys on the journey and once we get to campus. Alright, finally made it back to campus. I'm going to head to the library for a couple of hours to get some work done. But first, I definitely need some coffee. But before that, I'm going to get a quick meal deal from Tesco. Guys, so I am finally home. It is almost 8pm. It's been a very long day. A lot has happened. Funny story. At some point, the consultant in the next room knocks on the door while there's a consultation going on and he looks at me and he's just like, come quick, come quick. So I'm like, okay, fine. So I get up and I go straight to the other room and he's like, have a listen to this patient's chest. But I realize I don't have a stethoscope around my neck because I left it in my bag there. So I asked the consultant if I could borrow his stethoscope and he just looks at me in front of the patients and he's like, you didn't bring a stethoscope with you. I was like, I'm so sorry. It's just in my bag in the other room. Yeah, I usually have my stethoscope around my neck, but I was in a different room listening to different patients with a different consultant. I didn't expect that I have to bring it with me when you called me out. Anyways, that's pretty funny. I kind of laughed it off board his stethoscope and listened to the patient's chest. She had a systolic murmur. Anyways, while I have you here, you guys may have noticed this cheeky little Amazon package in the background. We're going to open it on camera right now. This is a electricity box, like a cables box. If I'm going to be doing a room tour soon, then I'm definitely going to need to clean up my cable game. And then secondly and very excitingly is this Manfrotto base plate. So what this allows you to do is take your camera on and off of different filming devices very quickly. Like I said, it's 8 p.m. I'm not going to be doing much more. That's interesting. Probably going to cook some dinner and then do some administrative stuff that I need to do. Answer some emails, do some research for upcoming projects and things like that. So I think I'm going to end the vlog here. I hope you guys have enjoyed this sort of mashup of different days. I know it hasn't been as continuous as my usual vlogs. But I think you guys will still enjoy the content. It's still interesting and shows different parts of medical school. So I hope you guys have enjoyed the vlog. If you did, please do leave a like on it. Leave me a comment down below telling me what you think and also subscribe to my channel to see more content from me in the future. Thank you so much for watching and I will see you in the next one. Peace.