STARTING 4th YEAR OF MED SCHOOL + NEUROLOGY ROTATION REVIEW

Hey everyone!
Long time, no talk!
I wanted to quickly check-in and find of give you guys an update of what I've been doing
with my life since the last video that went live--which is the My Amsterdam vlog and the
apartment tour.
So like I mentioned in that video, right after I came back I started my neurology rotation,
which was 3 weeks and it's very short and I found myself feeling like I had to study
for it all the time because the exam, the shelf exam, was coming up at the end of the
shelf--oh, at the end of the clerkship.
I was doing my hospital duties, studying and I remember just like feeling burnt out because
it was the end of 3rd year.
I mentioned this in the last video that I think 3rd year is one of the hardest years
of med school just because you're constantly being thrown into this new situations.
And you're always being evaluated both in the hospital and kind of as a person, as a
student but also you have the shelf exam looming over your head during the whole clerkship
and then you're supposed to go home after a long day at the hospital and study for this
exam that is going to make a big part of your grade.
So third year, and with neurology being my last clerkship, I was feeling burnt out.
Thats why I tried--or on more than one occasion to vlog my week or my day on neurology and
I found myself not being able to continue because I would either forget or there will
be large gaps between filming that it didn't really make sense.
Basically, I tried to vlog but I didn't really blog.
Neurology was pretty interesting.
The whole clerkship was three weeks like I said.
The first week and a half was spent on stroke service, so that's basically going to code
strokes, taking care patients who just had stroke and then second half of the clerkship
was basically general neurology consult--so thats anything from seizure patients to like
if someone had a cardiac arrest and they felt that the patient was brain dead, they would
want neurology people to come in and give their opinion, do their exam, do sort of the
brain stem reflexes and see what was intact and what wasn't.
So they call that prognostication.
So would call neurology consult to do some of that as well.
So I went to some of those, and kind of peppered between hospital days, we also had clinic
where we saw some pediatric neurology cases.
Lots of migraine, saw some seizure disorders.
I saw a case...
I saw a child with duchenne muscular dystrophy--which I have never seen before.
So that was interesting.
So that's what I did and now I'm home.
It's Friday night, it's about 7:30pm.
I'm pretty tired.
I think I'm gonna take this weekend off because starting next week----actually, next week
I'm gonna be in Korea but the week after that, week of July 4th.
I'm starting my away rotation, that's me going to different hospitals.
A lot of people see it as a long term interview.
Basically, it's hospitals where I want to end up in for residencies, so you have to
do good job so I'm kinda gearing myself up for that away rotation experience.
I'm most likely taking this week off.
I've been working on my personal statement, here and there and on and off and really trying
to stay on top of my residency applications schedule.
But there is a lot going on.
It's very like stress inducing because you feel like--I'm sure you guys feel the same
way for medical school applications.
It just feels like it's gonna determine your life, and I know it's not.
The best thing you can do, is to just do your best and try not to freak out and stay calm
and just think of ways where you can best show who you are and not try to be someone
else.
So I'm gonna keep that in mind as I go through the residency application process, and try
not to freak out and just stay calm and just be myself.
That's my, that's my two cents I guess regarding the application process, which is coming up.
Anyway, I'm gonna probably eat something for dinner and watch.
There are couple things I'm watching.
I'm watching the new Orange Is The New Black and I recently got season 1 of The Fresh Prince
because I thought it was a nice light-hearted short 30 minute show that you can watch for
fun.
So, I'm watching those two things and really liking it.
So I will check back in with you guys a little later.
I have a couple things I wanna talk about and this, I will most likely pick up tomorrow.
I will see you guys tomorrow, Saturday.
Hey guys!
Good morning!
It's Saturday.
Officially, as of today I'm a fourth year medical school student.
Isn't that crazy.
This past week I just finished my introduction to 4th year week.
Its a lot of orientation, getting trained on how to put in orders in the EMR, getting
ACLS training, and all that fun stuff and its finally over!
And now, I'm a forth year medical student.
Hard to believe that the past three years have gone by so fast.
(previous vlog snippet) so I have the mattress on the floor right now.
I'm in the process of getting a maybe a new bed.
So that's why that's on the floor.
Stuff in boxes still, I haven't unpacked completely but yes, this is it.
I have a bed!
And I have the bedroom more or less set up.
So this bed is from IKEA and the cool thing about this bed is under hear is all storage.
So you can see, it actually fits a lot of stuff.
This is like full.
This has like 3 pillows and a big comforter in it and I think this one has some blankets
and things like that.
One cool thing, I saw on pinterest this IKEA hack that you can do.
You can customized these handles.
The bed actually comes with a flat, white, handle but I got these handles from IKEA and
I spray painted it gold and I use these handles instead of the original handles the bed came
with and I think it turned out really cool.
I really like the way it looks.
This bed.. took me so long--it took me and boyfriend over 6 hours to make.
So it was a very complicated process.
That's my bed.
And I have couple dressers.
These are also from IKEA and I built them myself and I'm really proud.
I would say that room is coming along nicely.
I really like the way it looks.
Oh, let me show you guys something.
My 100 thousand subscribers plaque finally came in.
I'm so proud.
I have it displayed here on my bed.
I just wanna say thank you to everyone who supported me and followed me and this is all
thanks to you guys that I got this cool silver play button.
Thank you!
So, the living room is more or less the same.
And my study area is here.
Somebody mentioned to me that my study area is too dark and I agree.
I have a lamp set up over there if you guys can see but it's not bright enough so I ordered
a new lamp that is hopefully gonna come in a couple days and I'll have that all set up.
And by the way I wanna show you guys something really cool.
My friends at JaneandJady, the youtube channel, sent me a couple notebooks and I think it's
so pretty.
This one is the marble one and this one is the pink one and it has graph lining paper,
the graph paper.
And this one is the blank paper.
And they are designed to fit in your white coat and I think they're super pretty so please
go check out JaneandJady at their YouTube channel but also go to their website janeandjady.com
where they have all the cool merchandize.
So I posted a picture recently on Instagram and everyone was asking about my glasses so
I wanted to quickly talk about that.
I got it through the warby parker at home try on program.
I talked about before, basically what you do is you go online and you can pick 5 frames
that you want and they'll send it to you for free.
It will come in a box like this.
And the cool thing is you can actually mix and match regular glasses and sunglasses that
you can try on.
So I ordered couple of sunglasses.
This one and this one, this one looks a little different.
And I ordered three glasses.
One of them is the one that everyone has been asking me about.
It's called dahl, D-A-H-L from Warby Parker.
Also ordered Collis and finally I ordered, Holcomb.
So the great thing about Warby Parker is that they are affortable.
So the glasses start from $95 and that includes the prescription lens and the anti-scratch
and anti-glare coating.
Not only that, every time you buy a pair of glasses, they donate one to someone of need,
so I think it's a great cause to support.
They also have an app on the app store if you order the 5 pairs to try on, you can use
the app to take pictures and kinda compare them side by side and see which ones you like
the best and you can also send it to your friends and family to see which one they like
the best.
So if you guys are interested, in trying the home try on program, go to warbyparker.com/strive.
I'm gonna put the link the in description box as well you guys can pick 5 pairs you
guys wanna try on.
There is no obligation to buy.
It ships free and it's gonna include a free pre-paid shipping label so you can return
all the glasses back when you're done trying them on.
So I'm gonna end the vlog here.
I hope you guys enjoyed the little update.
Also, I hope you guys are having a great summer.
I know a lot of you guys are saying that you miss the vlogs and the videos and starting
late summer slash fall, I'll be back to uploading on my regular schedule every Saturday so definitely
stay tuned for that.
Plan for the rest of the day is I'm gonna have my boyfriend come over, we're gonna cook
together and maybe watch a movie.
So I'm gonna be signing off.
I hope you guys enjoyed the video.
Give it a thumbs up and leave me a comment and I will see you guys in the next video.
Bye!

STARTING 4th YEAR OF MED SCHOOL + NEUROLOGY ROTATION REVIEW

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