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And that works. I'm gonna stop sharing my screen. Yeah. Ok, so I'm just gonna wait for a few more people to join um, and then maybe get started. Ok. Hi everyone. Um, good evening. Thank you so much for being here. Um I'm really hoping that this event is gonna be very useful for you all. Um, so the chat should be open and it's my first time hosting anything on metal. So if it doesn't just go exactly. According to plan, please give me a wee minute and we'll try and get this sorted out. Um, so it shouldn't take, you know, too long and sort of anticipate it will be wrapped up maybe around it just after it. Um, so we'll just get started and so up first. Um, we have Cher, she's the second year rep um for Queens Drug and then we're gonna hear from Ollie. Then after Ollie, we'll hear from Doctor Glenn who started on phd and he's gonna talk about, um, I went to his top last year. It was really, really useful. So I'm hoping it'll be good again. I'm really pleased he's come back and, um, then I'm just gonna sum it all up and take any questions. All right. So without further ado sure um if you want to take it away. Yeah, thank you, Kira. Um So I'll just share my screen now. Um can everyone see my screen? All right. Yeah, I can see it. Yeah. Ok, perfect. Um So hi everyone. Um so I'm Cher and um I'm a second year medical student as Kira mentioned and um you know, I'm an international student and I just thought I'd share some things with you all today. Um And hopefully you guys find it useful. Um And yeah, I can take any questions at the end or anything. Um So a little bit about myself. Um So I'm originally from Hong Kong and I came to, you know, um Belfast to study at Queens two years ago. Um and I was also in boarding school since 13 years old in like England. So I got quite a long experience of being an international student abroad. So yeah, hopefully you find my talk. Um So first of all, I wanted to talk a bit about transport. Um if you're not from N I um there's this really good app on your phone that you can download, download, sorry. Um and it's called Translink and you can, if you also download the app and you get y link, you can also get discounts from Clements. So for hot drinks. So that's also quite useful um in the NBC and yeah, you can get discounted, you know, tickets, maybe you didn't know about that. And also it's useful when you go to family attachment or your clinical skills experience when it's outside of the NBC or the Royal, you know, using the app is quite convenient. So that's that for transport. Um and in terms of language and culture, so I found it slightly challenging when I first kind of came to Belfast and, you know, I heard a few kind of phrases here and there, um especially, you know, during my family um like attachment project, um found it a little bit challenging, but um you kind of get used to it really quickly and if in doubt or if you really didn't understand what the patient was talking about or what kind of certain professors um were talking about, um you could definitely ask them or ask your group mates and your family attachment group. Um They'll be very happy to answer like if you have any queries on um this kind of um area um in terms of language and I just put some common phrases on, you know. Uh so, and there's a link for if you wanna see more kind of phrases that um is used around here. And um yeah, in terms of kind of discrimination and kind of um that side of things, I personally didn't face that like kind of discrimination or anything like within the program or outside of Belfast because Belfast is like one of the safest cities in the world. So, um I wouldn't worry too much about that but if you know, you do face any, I mean, this is in a, any country really. It's not just in, you know, or city and not just in Belfast. So you can always talk to like anyone from SU or, you know, NBC. There's a lot of support at Queens for all of this as well. So that's um that's that and um bank notes. So um I didn't know that um you know, you had multiple bank notes in Belfast or used in Northern Ireland. Um because there's multiple banks like Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank, um Northern Bank. So yeah, that's quite useful to know as well because you wouldn't think that oh they're giving you kinda like fake money or something. Um Which did happen to me once because I didn't know that, you know, there's multiple banks, so just something to watch out for um as well. Um ok. So in terms of registering for a GP, um because everyone like in medical school has to register for a GPI would really encourage all of you to when you fill out the form. Um look carefully in what you have to bring with the form to register for the GP because one of my friends forgot to bring like her B RP card and I think her Visa but just brought the fo um brought the F form to like the university Health Center. So, just remember, so it kinda saves you a journey going back and forth with that and vaccination records. Um Also like, you know, every student and medical student in Queens needs a certain list of um, vaccinations. Um And every country is different. So some countries might have certain vaccinations and some don't. So just kind of prep yourself that you may or may not need more jobs than your peers. Um if you're from like certain countries and they don't have like the specific specific job that is needed. So that's just that um ok, so in terms of making friends and like feeling homesickness just wanted to say like at the start, you know, homesickness is a very normal feeling to have and everyone has different coping like strategies. Um Personally, I like to talk it out with like others and I like to kind of um um share my like feelings with my friends or my family. Um And yeah, that's the way I cope with it, but um also to keep myself busy as well, you know, you can sign up to the clubs to events um and kind of do the things that interest you. Um because there's a lot of clubs in um societies in Queens. Um So, you know, sign up to something you enjoy and you guys already signed up to scrubs. So that's a good start. Um And yeah, just because you're in medical school, so you're most likely to have someone with a similar interest as you. So it's not as hard as you may think in terms of like making friends. Um And that's another thing as well and yeah, I try to make friends, you know, outside of not only just like the international student group, um but you make friends with like post grads or like you um you know, students locally um cause that would kind of give you a very like better or broad, broader perspective um of, you know, I don't know, just in general as well. Um You could, you know, talk with more people which is always nice. Um And yeah, I think that's that. Um oops. Um yeah, so this is kind of the last two sides, I think. Um So support at QB, they give really good support, especially in the SU um in terms of like your wellbeing, you know, academic pressures or if you're facing any other pressures, not just academically. Um They also give very good visa support if you ever need any visa support. Um And also uh financial support as well. So it's all kind of in the su um And yeah, I think your ones will get a talk about kind of the support thing as well um in one of their lectures, I think. Um But yeah, that's that, you know, um and festivals. So I personally joined the Queens International Student Society. Um and they host a lot of big, like, big events, you know, like Chinese New Year or like Diwali. And there's a lot of different other things you can um participate um in the Queens International Student Society as well as the SU itself. They also host a lot of festival, like the more recent one is Dali, I think. And yeah, so, you know, it's a good kind of um way to make friends and to enjoy your life at Queens and maintaining that like work life balance, which is key. Um And yeah, my, I think this is the last slide. Um My last like advi advice, sorry is to explore and I um there's a lot of different, you know, great places to explore. I think this one is from Giant's Causeway, a dark forest and the um um Heaven Helen's Bay, I think. Yes. So, you know, um that keeping that work-life balance as well is quite, you know, is beautiful um part of um an eye. So I'd encourage you all to explore as well and oh, final tips, you're not alone. Um You know, we're all in the same boat. Um at the start, you might feel that, oh, this is like everything is kind of piling up and like it's a bit overwhelming. Um I can assure you that like in my year, at least I know a lot of people including myself that felt that as well. So just take it one step at, at a time and don't worry. Um and don't think that you're the only one that's experiencing this and start early in terms of your revision or any preparation for like ay um et cetera. And don't cram because it's really bad for your mental health as well. And work-life balance, as I mentioned, you know, you can explore and I join societies um and there's a lot of different things you can do outside of the NBC as well. Um And you've got this um you know, believe in yourself because you all got here and you all have the potential to, you know, succeed in medical school. So um not to worry about too much about, you know, medical school. Um And yeah, and this is my email and if you have any questions I can take them or, you know, um at the end of this. Um And yeah, that's me. I think so. I'll stop sharing my screen fab. Thank you so much. Um That was really useful. Those are practical tips in there. Um We'll maybe give it a couple of minutes in case anybody has any questions in the chat, but you've very kindly shared your emails. So if there's any, any questions there, they can send them to you. Ok. Well, maybe people are thinking you digesting all of your great tips. Um So all the do you want to take it from here? Yeah. No, I'm good to start Yeah. Um, well, so before I start, um, I just wanna say that I've been having a few issues with my connections. So if at any point I do start lagging or, um, cutting out, just let me know in the chat. Um, and I will, I'll, I'll start presenting. Er, I also don't have a presentation. I just thought it would be more of a chat. Um, I will make a summary sheet of everything I said today and send it to and then she will send that over to you guys after the after the session. Um But yeah, so I really wanted to talk about two things. The first is my experience as a UK student in, in Queens. Um and kind of things in retrospect that I would have done differently or things I did do and thought went well. Um that led to me having a good time and the second is more course orientated coss I'm guessing that's why a lot of you came um like a lot of revision strategies and ways that I approached the course that led to me um passing first year and, and, and getting into second year. So start off with the social things. But to be honest, share, I did an amazing job of, of kind of describing everything that you, you need to do to have a good time here. But I'd say um it all centers around the fact that Queens is a very different university compared to other UK universities in that, a lot of, a lot of its kind of students come from home and a lot of them know each other before they come to university. And there's also a big culture of people going home at the weekends, which can mean like the weekends can get a lot quieter or do get a lot quieter and sometimes it can be quite intimidating to make friends with um with other people and other students because it feels like everyone already has their preform friendship groups. So um the biggest way to kind of to combat that is to just throw yourself into everything. Join the societies at the beginning of the year which I'm sure all of you have been doing start conversations with random build connections, go out, have a good time. Um And yeah, build friendships so that you have people around at the weekends when a lot of the course will be going home. Um But to be honest medicine, you're in quite a fortunate position compared to other courses because it's quite a high proportion of non northern Irish and UK and international students. So you'll have those connections anyway, which is quite good. So, yeah, my top tip would be join societies, talk to people. Um But I'll move on to kind of revision and how to combat the course now. So my main thing and I can't really stress this enough will be revised for the exam. So first year and this is the biggest difference between kind of university and living away. And my years at home being in sixth form and high school, first year university, you just get presented with so much, so much information. Like sometimes it can feel like you've learned what would be a topic of a levels in one lecture. So if you know the exam and if you know what you need to learn to pass that exam, it's so much easier to tailor your revision. And once you can start building a plan and tailoring your revision, everything seems so much more manageable and kind of the stress suddenly goes. So know the exam and you can go onto canvas and I believe there's some documents um and the school will also send you emails, er and which kind of outlines what proportion of marks are allocated to certain topics, which allows you to revise kind of proportionally. So know the exam one way to do this as well and to structure revision is to revise based on learning objectives. So at the beginning of every, every lecture, I'm sure you've noticed they set out learning objectives like 5 to 10 learning objectives. So while you're making notes, if you use these learning objectives to structure your notes, that way, you know that you're only taking the relevant bits of information in these lectures and you're only learning the relevant bits of information as well that just prevents you from going down these sinkholes. Um That's so easy to go down, so know, know the exam and revise based on the learning objectives. The first two, the next two big tips and Glenn's going to elaborate much more on this is ways to revise. So I think there are two main ways in medical school and it's important not to neglect either of them. So the first one being kind of spatial repetition and more learning, the knowledge Glen's gonna talk about Anki, which is a great tool, definitely use that and it's really, really good for known facts like drugs and anatomy. And that just in terms of memorization, that tool is the best thing that I've ever used. But the second isn't quite commonly neglected. The second thing is learning more about concepts as a whole and actually taking a step back in every lecture and looking at what is the common thread that ties all of these facts together. Um And this is good because say this is good and Anki doesn't really do this for you. Um Because say it means that you can really use the knowledge that you're learning with a NC. So say, for example, you had an anatomy lecture or a lecture on pharmacology and you go away on a NC and you memorize all of the names of the drugs, all of the names of the bones and the names of the muscles. Um If you know that's all great. But it makes it quite hard to kind of put it into context and use it in, in your exams and as a concept. But if you take a second and actually learn the concepts around all of those things, makes it much easier to be able to apply that to, to different questions. So yeah, learn the concepts because that's the way that you really, really know and really develop the ability to, to use these bits of knowledges, bits of knowledge in the tests, ways to do this is to preread if you preread your lectures, um you will be a be able to like take in much more information in the lectures. You'll be able to go to these lectures and different tutorials with premade questions and you'll just be able to get much more out of your, out of your time spent in university. Um Also re around the subject a little bit, maybe just take time to just understand everything and then you, and you'll be able to kind of pick up these concepts much quicker. Um And then one big thing as well for me, which really meant that I didn't feel as overwhelmed at the end of the year when I was really revising um as I did at the beginning of the year was splitting up your work um and splitting up what you learn um between your friend group. So say if you really like pharmacology and another mate really likes anatomy. Maybe you go away and learn all of the pharmacology lectures and they go away and learn all the anatomy lectures, both make notes in it, make flashcards and then come together, maybe book a study room in the Macleay. Um And present what you've learned for me, maybe pharmacology and them anatomy to the other mate and then share your notes and your flashcards. So that basically halves the work that you need to do and it means that you're held accountable for what you learn. Um And just improves the learning experience so much more. Um And then the final tip would be just little and often. So keep on top of everything in the year. Um Just try and keep it ticking over because there's nothing worse than getting to exam season where you've not done anything and you've got to cram it out a few weeks, but a few weeks before the exam. So yeah, just little and often um learn for the exam, use the learning objectives, um revise the revise the concepts and use tools like Anki to memorize the concepts, memorize the information. That's me brilliant. Thank you, Ollie. Um Does anybody have any questions for lie? We give it to me in it. Um So then Glenn is up next. Do you want me to go ahead? Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead. Ok. Uh Let me just get my screen share. I don't have any uh slides. I'm just gonna do like a kind of like a demo. That's what I did last year. Um Let's see. I want to go with the screen. Ok. Is my screen sharing? It is indeed great. Um, so yes. Uh, hi, everyone. My name is Glenn. Uh I'm a final year uh medical students and I'm backed by popular demand. I did this talk last year. It seemed to go down. Well, so, um, it's gonna do the same thing this year. I, I'm on a desktop so I don't have a webcam but uh this is me in Melbourne and that's me with my friend. She uh wear a mask on. Um So if you did the suturing skills workshop, uh was it last night? Um You might remember me and we're doing another suture workshop in about three or four weeks time, which you're all welcome to come to. So I'm gonna talk to you tonight about a I So AKI is a sort of space repetition software which is quite popular. Uh A lot of youtubers have a lot of great demos. Um I'm just gonna focus on sort of like how I've used AKI. Um I'm quite sort of consider myself quite like a studious uh medical students. Um And sort of written exams would be my strong point and I don't think I would have done half as well were not for um using this software. So, if you're not familiar with a G, um the basic gist of it is whenever you learn new information. So let's say most of you are probably first year. So you go in and you learn about like, I don't know, like the skin or whatever you did in first year. So you have a lot like a large volume of information to take in. And then you learn it on the first day and then you rapidly forget it. This is the house uh forgetting curve and then eventually you just, you forget it completely. OK? So particularly in medicine, it's a five year course, there's a insane volume of information um to consolidate and you just can't learn everything in its entirety. So you have to come up with sort of strategies to help you remember things. The the gist of AKI is that by testing yourself on that knowledge repeatedly, you notice how the slopes of these curves gets less and less and less with more repetitions. That's kind of how AKI works. So let's say you made a card to learn, I don't know, like the muscles of the anterior forearm. So you would make your cards today. You would test yourself on that knowledge today and then you might get the cards again tomorrow. And let's say you get the cards correct. Then the next time you get the cards might be in say a week's time. And if you get them correct again, you might get the same cards in two weeks time and then in three weeks time and so on. So the cards that you're good at the knowledge that is sort of still there. Um, you're going to be tested on that less and less frequently over time. But if you get a card incorrect, you're then going to encounter that material more and more often until you start getting it correct. That's kind of like the gist of how AKI works. Um So in terms of like where you find it, just go on to Google type in IG. This is the website here. Um The great thing II like about it is that you can integrate it across your devices. So if you're an IO S user, I think you have to pay for the app. It's like 20 quid last time I checked, but that means you can use it on your Macbook, your imac, your iphone, your ipad, and so on, I think on Android, it's free. So it's great if you're like taking the bus or taking the train into the, the hospital or into your lectures or wherever you're going or if you just have a bit of down time, you can just test yourself with some cards. Um Another thing that I really like about AKI is you have all of these add-ons and so you just type in AKI add-ons into Google. You'll come across something like this now, just be careful because there are a lot of like unscrupulous sort of individuals out there who upload nonsense. You, you know, there could be viruses technically in this, I'm gonna show you my add-ons later on. Um, so you can get a bit of an idea of what I use and, you know, it just sort of makes your, your revision a bit more interesting. Um, so I'll, I'll introduce you first to AKI and what it looks like, this is my Anky deck and this is just the way I organize it. Yours won't look like this. Um But it shouldn't be too dissimilar if you have your own Nike open. So the way I sort of organize my decks is I have my medicine deck and then I have all the cards I made in year, one year, two year 34 and five. As you can see, loads of these cards are due and it usually wouldn't be as high as that. But I sat my finals in July. So, like, I've just like, forgotten all of this, but I don't test myself anymore because I have no more written exams. But sort of whenever I was a good student, particularly like 3rd and 4th year, these would have been very, very low. So these are the sort of the queen's medicine decks that I've made myself. Uh Then these are other decks which I've downloaded from elsewhere. So, like Neki is about like neurology and neurosurgery and then Spr clinical, this is a, a UK MLA deck that you can find online. I think it's on Reddit. Um Blue ophthalmology is um a deck I downloaded for an exam that I'm doing soon. Sweaty Betty is a UK deck. Um, it was made by somebody who studied at Dundee. So if you're going to like use this deck, just be mindful that some of the, like the management questions, like what antibiotic you'd use in some circumstance that might just be based on like the Tayside guidelines. But the guidelines in Belfast Trusts or other trusts in Northern Ireland could be different. So just bear that in mind. And then this is just an anatomy deck. My personal philosophy is that it's better to make your own decks than to use other people's decks. And the reason I say that is because the process of actually making cards requires you to learn the material. You can't make cards if you don't understand the material first and foremost. And then once you've made your cards and you test yourself on those cards, you're essentially consolidating your knowledge. If by contrast, let's say we just click on to what deck, this will be a difficult deck. You click onto that deck. You know, I don't really know much about what metachromatic leukodystrophy is. You know, I would probably hazard that it's autosomal recessive, but I don't really know much about this condition. So if I test myself on that knowledge, I just, I I'm just gonna develop a very superficial knowledge. Um of this condition. I don't really understand the nuances of it. And, you know, in real life you actually have to understand what you're dealing with. It is autosomal recessive, you know. So I think it's different if your, if your ultimate goal is to do something like the USM LE exams or if you're looking to do like the Canad Canadian equivalent, it is worth downloading like a premade deck. Um, but in terms of like your progress test and your a KT that you're going to sit, it's probably better just to make your own decks. So I wanna get rid of this screen. Um And I'm gonna open up a little demo deck and I'm just gonna talk you through a couple of wee different things you can do when you're making cards. So let's delete that. So there's different types of cards that you can make in IgI. So let's say I wanna make a deck. So I go down here and let's just say, let's just say this is year one and we're gonna make like an anatomy deck. We'll call it anatomy anyway. So that's we now have a deck imported here in the middle of the screen if I click that deck and then I click, add, I have options to make a card. So for you guys, something like this would come up a basic card. So for this here, you would just type in that your questions. So let's say, uh what nerve supplies the posterior forearm? Ok. And then you type in your answer, let's say radial nerve. Ok. So if I click, add close, I generated one card and then if I click study, now my question comes up. So I know I have a bit of time to ponder this and what nerve supplies the posterior forearm. Ok. I think it's the radial nerve hit enter. And that indeed is the answer on the bottom of the screen. And because I'm on a windows desktop, it's a little bit skewed with, but the bottom of the screen, you can see different options. Now, these are the options that I've set up. Like I have different timings. You know, there is, there is like a, a default one. You can see if I got this wrong. Let's say I said it was like, I don't know the median nerve, right. I would hit again. And that means I'm going in this instance, I'm going to get that card in a minute or so's time. If I thought this was really, really easy, I'd click easy and then I would get the card again in three days. If in three days time I got the card correct again, this three days for easy might be seven days. Ok. So the cards, like I said, the cards you get right, you're going to see less and less often until you get them wrong. Ok. So that's an example of a basic card, you can also make cards that are double sided like this one here. Soap. Why would you do? That is interesting. So let's say, let's say you were trying to learn um different types of drugs and their classes, which is a big part of medicine. Ok. So I'm thinking the drug class now. So let's say you wanted to learn um the names of like a like a beta two agonist for talks sake. OK. So you probably you do beta adren receptors in first year. Um So sometimes people are very good at learning. Let's say if I were to say to you, gi give me a list of beta two agonists and you were like salbutamol, terbutaline, OK? That's kind of like a forward association. OK? But if I were to say to you, um what class does salbutamol and terbutaline belong to? You might not necessarily know that answer. It kind of sounds ridiculous, but some people learn the forward association but not the backward association. So you may well know that that the list of beta two agonists is salbutamol or Terbutaline. But you might forget if someone were to be like what drug class is, salbutamol, you might not necessarily remember that. So one way of getting around that would be like, let's say I made a car and I said on one side, a list of beta two agonists and then on the other side, I wrote salbutamol, are they terbutaline? I hit, add to the deck. Let's close that, that we've already done that one. So there's a card, a list of beta two agonists. So the, the, the idea in this instance is, is to come up with that list. Ok. It's salbutamol terbutaline if I hit the. Ok. And I go on to the next card. Now, I'm just hit with salbutamol and Terbutaline. And because I made this card, I know that it's asking me for the mechanism of action. OK? Which is, it's a beta two agonist. OK. Sort of hope that makes sense. Like that's, it's quite good. And my uh that's kind of mainly what I use that type of card for. It's like trying to learn the names of drugs and the different drug classes and there's loads of that. Like in first year, you have to learn your beta one beta, two agonists and their antagonists, beta three, alpha one, alpha, two, alpha one A, there's a pig list and that's just like the adrenoceptor stuff. There's loads of antibiotics to learn um anticoagulants and so on. Um So another example then let's see would be like a closed deletion. A closed deletion is essentially a fill in the blank card. OK? So let's just stay um let's just stay with the pharmacology. OK? So let's go with um cefTRIAXone. OK. Um or maybe come with a different one. Let's go with Ciprofloxacin for the crack. So you had some prostatitis. So, Ciprofloxacin is an example of a um fluoro God. I can't even spell quinolone antibiotic. So let's say you were trying to learn a list of antibiotics and instead of making a list of the reverse card, you wanna do, do a fill in the blank. So in this instance, let's say we want to fill in the blank for the antibiotic class. Now, it's hard on my screen here. Um But there's kind of these three dots here, these ellipsis. So if I press that, you'll notice that I've got some of these fancy square brackets and C one here. So C one is just the close. So this is like a blank essentially. So whenever I see this card in the next sort of screen, it's gonna say Ciproflox is a, is an example of a blank antibiotic. So I ahead add, go into this ciprofloxacin and then I have to fill in the blank and you might be like, oh, is it a flu? Is it a quinolone? Is it a aminoglycoside? Can't remember? Oh, it's a fluoroquinolone. OK. So I don't really use the closed lesions all that often. Um But you will see them a lot in premade decks that you can download from the likes of reddit, right? Probably the most interesting type of card. And what I think is the highest sort of yield card to make is an image occlusion. Now, I can't remember if this comes default in an or not, but it's essentially, it's an add on and rather than talk about it, I'll just show you it. So I use it mainly for anatomy. OK. So essentially what you do is you get a picture, usually a diagram with labels on it. And then what you're gonna essentially do is cover up the blanks, not cover up the blanks, you're gonna cover up the labels and then on whenever on the following card, some of the labels are going to be highlighted red and you have to name the labels. It's really good for learning your anatomy. So I'll just demonstrate it rather than confuse you. So this is an image I downloaded earlier on from teach me anatomy. So this is, this is the anterior compartment of the left forearm. On the left hand side. Here, there's different shapes. You can select yours will look better than mine. Um because I'm on this crappy windows desktop, but I click rectangle and then I make a rectangle over here. I can cover up all of these labels, let's cover them up. Now, what's gonna happen is that whenever I click, add an is going to make four cards, one for each of the four labels. OK? And in the card that I get, whenever I test myself, all of them will be yellow in this instance, except for one which will be red. And that ha that will be the card that I have or the the piece of anatomy that I have to name. So if I go to test myself, get rid of that. So here, the goal is to name whatever this is. Ok. So it's obviously very good for learning your anatomy and it can be as complicated as you want it to be. Um So I think this is F cr Yep. And then again, now it wants me the name just as proto Teres and then wants me to name Palmaris Longus. And then I wants me to name uh your Flexor Carpi ulnaris. OK. So you probably get the gist. Um The way that I sort of do things in practice is I get my images for anatomy. Um Where's my other screen there? It is, I get my images from anatomy, usually from teach me anatomy, which is a really good website. Others exist, you know, like Ken Hub or so on. Um And teach me anatomy has a whole list of different things. So there's neuroanatomy, which is what I love. So let's say you wanted to learn about the pons, you sort of scroll down, find yourself a good picture with the anatomy that you want to learn. OK. Some of the images are crap. Um And essentially you just download this, you just save it onto your, your downloads and then you go back into AKI and you make your card as I showed you before. Um For anatomy, you can also just use premade decks. So if I switch back to my main deck. Um This is a premade deck here from University of Michigan. So that's the humerus tells you down here and that's probably the greater tubercle or greater crest. Yeah. Or you can make your own cards. So this should probably be like a bit of imaging. Yeah. So this is a axial ct and you have to name 64 and 65. I got these from Radio pia, which is very good for learning radiology. So that's your splenium of your cus callosum. That's your posterior heart of the right ventricle. Yeah. So that's how I use zany sort of in the day to day and let me just check my notes to see if there's other things I wanna mention. Um Yeah, so I'll talk about the add-ons actually. Um You might have seen one there. So let's go back to this. So um I don't know if it'll happen here. No, I don't have it activated. So if you want to think about the add-ons, add-ons, just make your life a bit more interesting. Um So if you go to tools and you go to add-ons up here, these are all the sorts of things that you can download. So for example, here I had, I had, I don't have it activated, but I had an an kill streak activated. So um I don't know if anyone like played like Halo back in the day, like the video game and you got like double kills and triple kills and so on. So that was one of the things that I had activated. So if I got like three questions right in a row, it would come up like a triple kill or something like that. You can put hit markers on if you played like Call of Duty or first person shooters back in the day. This is the, the fancy image occlusion tool, um which you can download as well. It's a bit, it's a bit better and looks uh than the one that I showed you. The, the, the default one. Um There's a review heat map and all that you can have on which is like a heat map showing you how active you've been on different days. It just makes your life a bit more interesting that so it doesn't look as bad as this. Um My set up on this desktop isn't great, but on my laptop, it's a bit fancier. The other thing I'll mention, which I really like. I go back to my um what cream is I on this one was you can download this app. Um So if you go, if you find this guy on Patreon Glutamate, um he has an add on that he made where you can essentially program like a controller like a like from like an xbox or a playstation or something like that and you can set, set up your an so that your responses are mapped to your controller. So for example, um I have mine set up at the moment. So let's say I clicked on this deck here so you can't see it. But I have like an Xbox controller in my hand. And if I, if I press, um let's see, you press this. If I press right, trigger, it's, it's mapped to go because I know the answer to this question and that happens. Um For my laptop, I have like a Nintendo switch controller and it means you can sit if you're like in the library instead of like sitting hunched over your computer mono monotonously, like pressing buttons over and over again. You can just like, sit back and then with like a, a Nintendo switch, like a little clicker and your hands, you can do your cards that way. Um So that's Gleam and the app itself is called, uh Android, I believe. Let's see. I have it here. Yeah. So that's, that's kind of the screen that you would have. So you just map the buttons whichever way you want, you know, it doesn't have to be Xbox, other devices exist, whatever tickles your fancy. So that's kind of how I use an on the day to day. I'll go back to it in just a little second. Um, he was talking about, um, sort of the process of like making cards and like, or not making cards, but like the process of studying them, like, sort of what his approach is. I'll just share with you what my approach is and ii know most of you are probably first year and that's all he said. The emphasis is just like studying for the exam. But as you go into second year, 3rd, 4th year, you'll start to do the progress test and it's kind of like a finals level exam and it's kind of tough, um, particularly whenever you, you first do it, I think you do it in the first year, but it doesn't count. Um So my general approach to studying now when you're in 1st and 2nd year, do your best to learn all that basic stuff like your normal anatomy, your normal physiology, the pharmacology and so on. So that, that places you in good stead moving forward. If you already know that you might want to be a surgeon, you need to learn that anatomy pretty early on because you're not going to be taught anatomy again after second year. Ok. So you have to keep that knowledge and that's what I is good for. But in terms of my approach, what I would normally do is I would go on to zero to finals.com. And this guy I think his name is Tom. He has a book as well. You'll see a lot of people in the library with and I would go in, let's say I wanted to learn some neurology. So I go into neurology and that's for P actually, I hate kids. Let's do something different. Uh Let's do the adult neurology. Yeah. So let's say we wanted to learn about Parkinson's disease. So zero to finals is a good resource. It's really superficial. This is like the absolute like minimum that you need to know for stuff. OK? Um This is not like the level of detail you need to know for your exams, you need to go a bit further, but you can sort of see how it's broken down. It talks about this is a what Parkinson's is. This is like what goes wrong in terms of like the disease mechanism. These are the clinical features. Um This is like sort of getting into like your differentials for Parkinson's. So these weird Parkinson plus syndromes you learn all about and then you get into like, how do you diagnose it and what's the management and sometimes there's stuff down here about complications. So like my approach to studying would be to read all of this and to make some notes. So I would use like notion and I would make like a Parkinson's page on my notion um with bits and pieces from this. The next thing that I would do was that I would go on to like one of the question banks. So this is pasmed. I personally use ResMed, but this is the one I have a subscription for at the moment. So you go on the pass med, this is the finals level one, the, the year's 1 to 31 is actually free if I'm not mistake, but I would go into the high yield textbook and I would type in Parkinson's and then if all this stuff comes up, let's say we wanted to talk about, learn about the management of Parkinson's disease. So this is kind of like the level of detail you kind of need to know for your progress test and your A KT um at the end of fourth year. So I would again, I go through all of this stuff and I would just make notes that I thought like were important. Like some of this stuff is like ridiculously detailed. I'm not gonna learn everything. Um But I would just make notes and supplement all the stuff from zero to finals with this content. I'd probably do the same thing for ques cos I had them both at one time. But after I did that there, I would then make, I would update my notion and then based on my notion notes, I would then make my flash cards. So by this point, you've taken the time to try and learn this content and now you're making your cards which helps you to consolidate the content. And then when you do your cards over time, you're going to consolidate further. Um That's the best approach in my view. The other thing you can do is you can go into these decks. So let's say we went into the sweaty Betty deck and you can just look for cards that they have on Parkinson's. So let's say Parkinson's disease and you see what comes up. So these are, you see the deck here, these are all the sweaty Betty questions on Parkinson's. So you can, you can just pick which ones you like and then if you right click on them, you can change the deck and you can put them into your main decks. Let's say, I don't know what my main deck is, let's say medicine. So that's my main deck for Parkinson's disease there. You're basically stealing cards from other people's decks, but it's really good and sometimes you come across things you never really thought of. Ok. Um, little like niche nuggets of information which, you know, might come up in like passed or SMED and you would never know it. You know, it's not really clinically significant, but it's a, it's a question that might catch you out in your exams because you tend to get examined on things that you don't necessarily see day to day. Um So I think that's pretty much all I have to say. So again, just to emphasize, learn the content first and then make your notes and then make your cards. And the key thing when it comes to making your cards is don't go overboard, just try and be very conservative because you don't want to end up like me where you've got like 7.5 1000 cards. And then as you move through the years, you know, you'll sort of realize that after first year you can kind of forget everything you learned in first year because it's never gonna come up in your exam. You're never gonna get asked in the progress test about the Krebs cycle or some, like, like weird biochemistry stuff. Um, so I think that's all I have to say. Um, some people ask me, do I share my decks? I don't, the main, the main reason I don't share my decks. Not, not because I'm greedy, but I usually have like a lot of politically incorrect stuff in my decks to try and remember things. So I'm not willing to like risk a referral to the GMC just because you want to do better in your exams. Um But by all means you put it, download de from elsewhere. The best place to look is Reddit. There's a subreddit, um medical school. I'd click on this, but then you'd see my Reddit profile and you'd see all the hideous things I post online. Um But that's a great place to look. Um For other decks. Anke is kind of the best one for um ume stuff. Ok. So that's it for me. Thanks for listening and um feel free to fire me any questions if you have them. Yes. Thank you very much Gleb. Um Oh, I've got a question. I Oh, Donovan. Very interesting. Have you found? Thank you helpful for learning perioperative anatomy or steps of a surgery. Perioperative anatomy. Donovan, you spend more time on the wards, my friend. Um, I don't think it's very good for, um, for learning steps of a surgery. I think you're better like watching videos of surgeries online. Actually, Martin Kane, one of the general surgery regs. He recommended an A toy Donovan called Touch Surgery. It's made by Medtronic and it's free to download and they actually have the steps of surgeries in it with little videos. Um, no, not of the boring cardiothoracic stuff, but a lot of general surgery in it. So, um, yeah, that's what I would recommend if you're looking to learn the steps of the surgery, but they emphasized that, uh, probably many first years and, uh, in the chat, um, you don't need to learn the steps of any operations for medicine. Ok, great. Thank you for that. And all the information said in this presentation be emailed just so your slides will be emailed to you. Unfortunately. Um, like glands kind of transcript won. Yeah, there's no, there's no slides. Um, um, the, if you, I mean, I'm happy to like, talk to people if they want to sort of run over things again. Um, but there are really great tutorials on youtube, um, that are probably worth looking at, um, if you're very fresh. Thank you. But, um, uh I'm in the Belfast trust this year. Um, so I'm usually around and that's my email if there's, I don't, I'm using the NBC. So if you're in the NBC and you want to run through that stuff again or any, or ask any questions, just fire me an email. Great. Thank you very much. And that's very helpful. Um I sure she was spending less time in the wards, then James go to another intercalated degree. Ok. So, um that is, we've run through our two setting your reps and we've heard from Ben. So now it's me. So just a little bit about me to introduce myself. So I grew up in ARDS and I live in now, um went to bar academy. Um I drink cooking, going to see shows and if I've ever put in a situation where I have to, I have to pull out interesting facts about me. Um I can play the saxophone but I never, never make anybody do that. Um So radically shouldn't. Uh I am the QB Scrubs Welding Officer. So I always think that whenever somebody asks you, you know, like, do you have any questions at the end of the thing? I always think what, what can I ask? And I think if you could do like a wise that again, what would you definitely is a great question to ask cause you should put it on the person, put it back on the person for them to think about what they would do differently or what, you know, they would change. So I was thinking about this myself and I could do first year, over year. Not that I would really want to, but there's a couple of things I think I would do differently. So with case based learning, um, I remember spending ages like trying to find the new sh stuff and Northern Ireland isn't particularly good at keeping records of things. So I remember spending an entire afternoon trying to find a breakdown of injuries and road traffic accidents that I couldn't find. And II think that one of the things about case learning is it's not actually about what you say in the tutorial. It's about how you interact with the people beforehand and afterwards. So like I've made sure that I had like an N TQ in my slides now because I think that's more beneficial really than having exactly what you all agreed you wanted to learn if that information isn't available. I don't think it's a good use of anybody's time to go looking for like tiny amounts of information or really specific things that you thought would be good, but I aren't. Um, I would also worried as to what people thought of me, but I think that that's quite easy to say no. Um I would go and do things that I wanted to do and go to events and things and not worry about, you know, whether it was too early or whether somebody would think there was a bit much. Um, I probably would sleep more. Um, it's genuinely an honest answer there. I probably wouldn't stay up late, like, doing slides and doing stupid pointless things. I didn't really need sleeps better. Um, that's probably the things that I can think of but if anybody has any questions afterwards or even just through the rest of it, shoot them into the chat. No, I have to take the button. Is that the one I wanted must be. Um, so one of the things I sort of wanted to talk about in terms of wellbeing, um I think that it's really easy to sort of say, oh, you know, you should do this or do that and you know, you should do self care and you should take an afternoon and do whatever. But on a more practical level, you know, this apparently is very good. People say that it's very useful. Um It's these five steps. So, you know, you connect with people, you take notice of something around, you, keep learning, you, you be active and you give like your time or something to or your presence apparently to people. So in terms of being this practical and pragmatic and something you can actually do in your day to day life. Um I thought of two things you can do of a day that would hit all five of your waste wellbeing. So if you made a cup of tea or coffee for somebody you lived with and you had a chat with them about their day. Well, we've connected and we've given and if we make our own hot drink and our favorite cup and we have a wee trait that sparks our joy. Well, we've taken notice of something that's around us. Um, I love the phrase, like sparking your joy even though people like my friends who take the m, um because I think that it's really important to you just to, to take your happiness where you can, you know, and not to wait for, you know, something to happen to be happy or, you know, for somebody to give you permission to be happy, just find little things in life that make you happy and smile about them. So that would take you, I reckon about 15 minutes and we've had three out of our five ways to wellbeing. So you got 60% to. So an example too, we maybe go to a new exercise class that we haven't tried before. Are we taking you more advanced class? So we've kept learning and we've been active. Um I would say that take maybe 45 minutes. I don't know. I wouldn't be a big exercise class kind of person and we've had our other two ways to wellbeing. So in about an hour, you know, we've done this, it's very practical. It's probably made a real difference to us. Something to think about ways you can integrate it into your own life. So I initially had this animated, but I had to convert it into a PDF document because it's gonna say yes, you know, you can do hard things, everybody can do hard things because you know, you've got into medical school, that's hard, but you don't have to do them on your own. You know, you could ask for help. Uh I think just from a wellbeing perspective with my wellbeing hat on, you should definitely ask for help. Um If you need it and sometimes you don't think you do. Um But sometimes you do and it can be really hard to reach out to ask for help and that's another hard thing that you can do. Um And sometimes if you even just let somebody around, you know, that, you know, you're struggling with something, then they can help you out. They can give you a bit of advice so they can tell you, like I said, at the start, you know, that you're not the only one who feels this way or not the only one thinking, you know, something sometimes that can make you feel a wee bit better as well, maybe that's all you need to know that you're not the only one stroke him or something. Um So thank you very much for coming tonight. I hope, you know, definitely within the broad range of things that we had going on with something that helped you all do that. You're gonna take forward into the year. That's my email address. It is chemical 08 at qv.ac.uk. And if you have any questions for me or anyone else um who's still on the chart, fire them on in. Um And I'll stick about for about five minutes afterwards. I'm also gonna release the big back for me. Um And I really love any feedback on this evening. Anything you'd like to see happen kind of with inscribes from a well-being perspective cause it's a new rule. So thank you very much for coming. Have a lovely evening.