med school Archives - Shanna Yeung

How to get from High school to Med School in Canada – majors, courses, research

Posted on July 4, 2020July 2, 2020 by shannacyeung

High School to Med School: Major, Courses, Research, Honours, Directed Studies An incoming med student’s path from High School to UBC Medical School We answered your premed questions that you have left in the comments or in messages on: 0:28 The benefits of volunteered in a hospital as a high school student 0:53 Shadowing a surgeon while in high school 1:24 University / Undergrad 1:36 What courses/classes to take 2:07 Choosing a Major 3:17 Research 5:09 How she found her research position What’s it like to do a Honours project and What she did for her Honours Research project The Read More

Non Traditional Med School Applicant Journey and Gap Year (Canada)

Posted on June 5, 2020 by shannacyeung

Brandon is a UBC med student whose non traditional path to med school included a dual degree in music composition and biology and a gap year studying music composition in Paris. Watch to hear his advice for other non traditional med school applicants. Going forward, I want to show a diversity of paths in addition to science-> med, such as a variety of majors, extra years, gap years, etc. We filmed and edited this a while back so the video doesn’t include words of support. Please check out some educational resources and donation link regarding the Black Lives Matter movement. Read More

Day in the Life of a UBC Med Student: Goal Setting, Extracurriculars, Studying, Notion

Posted on May 26, 2020 by shannacyeung

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

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

Posted on May 13, 2020May 13, 2020 by shannacyeung

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

Non-Traditional Path to Medical School in Canada, and Fear of Failure

Posted on April 16, 2020 by shannacyeung

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.