 Hello friends and welcome to another edition of Unplugged. Today we have with us Dr Nikita Nandwani. She is a radiologist who has passed her MD very recently from BYL Naya Hospital Mumbai and has gone on very quickly to cover Nish amongst PG NEED students by teaching them online. She also has a wonderful YouTube channel where she tackles questions that come up in NEED PG and it's a wonderful channel to subscribe to for radiology students. So Nikita, welcome to the show and let me start by asking you this first question that how did you start this journey from MD radiology up to teaching students for PG NEED. Thank you for inviting me. It's my honor and pleasure to be here and be a part of Unplugged series. At the outset I would like to congratulate you for coming up with the Indian Radiologist YouTube channel which was a much needed thing. So talking about my journey of teaching medical students well it was not after MD but it started while I was still doing my MBBS internship. I've always been very academically oriented thanks to my mom. I always believed in learning by understanding the concepts rather than mugging up. So when I was doing my internship rather externship at my native place that is Amravati, I realized that I could contribute by filling the Swiss cheese gaps in the foundation and concepts of the undergraduate students there. So I started teaching a small bunch of students and then the various opportunities from various NEED PG coaching centers started pouring in and there I was taking classes all over India. How did you start making these YouTube videos? Tell us a little bit more about this. I was traveling and teaching at many centers in India but there were limitations to the number of students and places that would be reached. So I realized that technology or online platform is something which has no boundaries plus the students can revise the video lectures at the convenience of their own time and pace. So it was after completing my MD in 2015. It was recently in 2017 that I created my YouTube channel that is Dr. Nikita's Ratsynapse with the vision behind every video being clarity with privacy and the response has been phenomenal and now the realm of my YouTube channel videos has expanded beyond radiology into other medical subjects as well with the focus being making things easy to remember for medical students. What is your biggest motivation while teaching medical students? During my interaction with undergraduate medical students I realized that quite a few of them faced self-doubt. I had myself never attended coaching classes during my medical school or for my MD entrance but I was blessed with rank 10 in Maharashtra PG entrance and rank 63 in AIMS in my first attempt itself. So I want to invigorate the same belief in the students that nothing is impossible if they are determined and to serve that purpose is my biggest motivation. While teaching students have you been actually inspired by someone and also what is your advice to PG need students who wish to pursue radiology as a career? I've been inspired by the quote don't just aspire to make a living aspire to make a difference make a dent in the universe nothing matches the satisfaction that I get when I teach students and receive feedbacks and thanksgiving messages from them saying that my teachings have made a difference in their life. Radiology is a fascinating branch which deals with all subjects be it orthopedics, medicine, surgery, OBGY pediatrics and so on. Basically radiologist is a doctor's doctor and radiology or diagnostics form the backbone in patient management because correct and prompt diagnosis is essential for correct and prompt treatment. Plus the realm of radiology now includes interventional radiology also which has the advantage of treating patients with minimally invasive procedures. So if someone is an avid reader likes to face everyday challenges that is new cases and is a bit tech savvy radiology is a branch for him or her.