This week marked the first time I’ve gone back to campus in almost 4 months, and it’s something I’ve been really looking forward to so I decided to do a “day in the life of a medical student”-type video! We are only going to campus to do our clinical skills sessions, and then later to do our exams and OSCE’s.
Tag: GEMP 2
BEING HONEST: SELF-DOUBT AND FEELING OVERWHELMED
This week I wanted to talk about feeling overwhelmed with med school work and dealing with self-doubt and the so-called impostor syndrome
HOW TO STAY MOTIVATED
Here’s a topic that I get asked about quite often, and some points of view on how I stay motivated
Hope you enjoy it!
A WEEK IN THE LIFE | ONLINE + MED SCHOOL UPDATE
It’s been a LONG time since I made a VLOG, so this was quite interesting to do again! We are currently doing our GEMP 2 theory component online, but as things stand we will be heading back to campus in July to start with our clinical skills and compulsories. Thank you for watching – I hope you enjoy the video!
THE WARBURG EFFECT (Normal Metabolism VS Cancer Metabolism)
Here’s a quick video explaining the Warburg effect and cancer cell metabolism
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MY FIRST SURGERY EXPERIENCE
RECORDED ON 5 FEBRUARY 2020
This was my first time observing a surgery, and it was every bit as exciting as I could have imagined! Between work and studying, I’ve been slow to edit or record much this year, but I finally got around to this one – hope you enjoy it!
A PRODUCTIVE WEEKEND IN MED SCHOOL (And GEMP 2 Updates)
First VLOG of 2020!
The first block of GEMP 2 is neurosciences (split into neurology and psychiatry), and this was the first weekend I really tried to sit and study with exams fast approaching!
Welcome to GEMP 2!
As I write this, we have completed 3 weeks (ALREADY!) of our GEMP 2 / 4th year of medicine at Wits! The year starts off with a Neurosciences block, which in itself is made up of neurology and psychiatry.
One of the questions I get frequently from people trying to get into GEMP is if missing out on dissection (a second year med school component) is a massive set-back for students. For GEMP 1, I’d definitely say there is no disadvantage that I could tell – the anatomy labs are relatively straight-forward, and there are cadavers and specimens for each of the relative systems that you can work with.
For the first 3 weeks of GEMP 2, however, I have strongly felt that absence of knowledge. Understandably, getting the brain to understand exactly how the brain understands is inherently confusing, but it has been the most difficult 3 weeks of medical school for me by a long stretch.
My South African Medical School Journey 