Extracurriculars for Med School

How do medical students stay motivated and avoid getting overwhelmed?

I’m Shanna, a Canadian medical student. Every Wednesday and Friday afternoon, I release short videos with interviews with different med students and physicians, advice videos, and videos based on viewer comments. Subscribe to not miss a chance to learn how to be the most productive and stress free med student or applicant you can be. Let’s thrive not just survive in medicine together. 

Starting UBC Medicine

What to know before starting first year of med school at UBC

  This video is about UBC Med’s Spiral Curriculum, Flex, Workload, Atmosphere/Culture , Specialty Choice. 0:28 How is the spiral curriculum at UBC Med? 3:15 How is the workload at UBC Med? 4:23 How do you manage the workload of med school 6:28 Which content is most difficult 7:24 How is the atmosphere / culture at UBC Med? 9:10 How do you find the research opportunities in med school? Database of researchers interested in taking on students, Cold Emailing, Lecturers, Newsletters from the Faculty of Medicine, and Medical Undergraduate Society 10:54 What kind of non-research projects do students do for Read More

Extracurriculars for Med School

USMLE Step 1 for Canadians Study Plan

This is my plan to study for the USMLE Step 1 as a Canadian Medical Student. I’ll post another video after my exam to review what worked and what didn’t. Subscribe for new videos every Wednesday at 3pm (and sometimes bonus videos Friday afternoons). Hit the bell to be notified when a new video is published. I’m Shanna, a Canadian Med Student creating advice videos for premeds, Day in the Life of a Med Student vlogs and Interviews of various medical students. I hope hearing some of my fellow med students’ experiences can inspire you to chase your dreams and Read More

Extracurriculars for Med School

How to deal with failure as a premed, med student or pharmacy student

It’s Jamie and Shanna again. Since some got heart breaking rejection letters from med school, today is the perfect day to talk about how we learned to view failure and critical feedback as learning opportunities, set aside to feel down about the failure and then let go, and how to be kinder to ourselves and our team when failures occurs. We also share a couple light stories of times we felt like failures but these failures turned out to be nothing in the big scheme of things. (Mine was definitely petty in retrospect but my 17 year old self thought Read More

Extracurriculars for Med School

How to feel less insecure about your looks and body

I share my story about what aspects of my looks that I felt insecure about, how I become confident, and tips to maintain self-confidence in your own skin.  As I was preparing for my talk to high school students next week, I thought about what worries and insecurities I wish more people talked about back when I was younger. I I felt slightly embarrassed sharing my  story but the same around this topic makes it even more important to talk about it. I’m Shanna, a Canadian Med Student creating Day in the Life vlogs and Interviews of various medical students. Read More

Extracurriculars for Med School

Potential Side Effects of Eyelash Extensions, Tints & Lifts, Growth Serums – based on Research

This video is about the Bad Side Effects of Eyelash Extension, Tints & Lifts, Growth Serums – based on Research. This is not a medical advice video. This is based on my personal research on the safety of these eyelash enhancements by reading articles written by ophthalmologists, optometrists, and integrating other information I could find. Hope this helps 🙂  

Extracurriculars for Med School

Prevent Burnout and Go after More Opportunities

Hey guys, it’s Jamie and Shanna today starting a series on our experiences in health professional programs. Jamie is a pharmacy student and Shanna is a medical student. In this episode, we talk about how to prevent Burnout, Say No, and Go after More Opportunities. This is the first episode of a three episode series. Each episode is released on Wednesdays at 3 pm PST.  

Extracurriculars for Med School

How to be productive and stay motivated

Hope these tips help you all be productive and stay motivated, to accomplish whatever goals you have 🙂 I also hope you get a laugh out of how unnecessarily serious I look in the thumbnail.  0:34 If routine doesn’t work for you, go for variety, and do what your energy best suits. 1:06 Take a Break and do unrelated activities. 3:57 Be Accountable to someone else. ** Also sorry guys, MDProspect didn’t actually say that. I meant to reference his work ethic at the end of the video. 6:11 Connect with mentors and others that inspire you 8:29 Change the Read More