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. http://shannayeung.com/
Category: Medical School
Day in the Life of a UBC Med Student: Goal Setting, Extracurriculars, Studying, Notion
Hi everyone, I was in a period of burnout so I thought about what my big picture goals such as what I’d like to accomplish by the end of summer and thought about what kind of physician I want to be and made the biggest to-do list. I discuss how I did this goal-setting and why I’m a new fan of Notion. I also talk about kdramas (my guilty pleasure). Hope you all enjoyed the editing of this week. I wanted to make more of an effort for you guys 🙂 I’m Shanna, a Canadian medical student at UBC. Read More
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
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
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
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.
Non-Traditional Path to Medical School in Canada, and Fear of Failure
I interviewed a UBC Med Classmate about her journey that involves studying Piano Performance to become a Professor in Music, spending 5 years switching from piano to medicine, and applying to and getting into medical school. We also spend the last five minutes of the video discussing fear of failure.
Eyeglasses Project
I’ve been grateful to be involved with the Eyeglasses project for over a year to provide free eye care to people that haven’t accessed eye care in years. It can be easy to get hyper-focused on studying and building your career in medical school but staying involved in community work reminds me to slow down and remember the passion for helping people that drew me to medicine in the first place. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-the-eyeglasses-project-offers-free-eye-care-in-vancouvers-downtown/
Charity eye clinic, October Life Update
Charity eye clinic project I am involved with a charity project that provides eye exams and glasses to low-income individuals in the Downtown Eastside. We held our second pop-up eye clinic in the Downtown Eastside this Tuesday and served a hundred people. It broke my heart that we had to turn~ 40 people because we ran out of time to serve everyone despite working from 8 am until 8 pm. The people we did serve reminded me of how privileged I am to have easy access to healthcare, and renewed a passion to help people who don’t have easy access Read More