med student 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

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

USMLE Step 1 for Canadians Study Plan

Posted on May 14, 2020May 14, 2020 by shannacyeung

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

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