If you are a student, especially in medical school,
Speaker:and want to teach medicine, I urge you to start
Speaker:without any experience. Just start and then learn along the way. And
Speaker:the beautiful thing about the teaching is that when you
Speaker:teach, you learn more. When you teach, um, you,
Speaker:the information that you've learned stays in the brain for
Speaker:a longer period of time, and you can build on that one easier.
Speaker:So teaching is actually the best form of learning.
Speaker:When we recorded this episode, Taim Dawod was still practicing
Speaker:medicine and building his YouTube channel on the side. Well, since then,
Speaker:a lot has changed. For one, he's almost grown to nearly
Speaker:400,000 subscribers. He shifted from being a
Speaker:doctor, medicine, creating content to just creating on—
Speaker:focusing on educational content full-time. And now he has a film
Speaker:selected for TREF, which is an Educational Film Festival, which is
Speaker:going to be amazing, and I'll be actually one of the keynote speakers this year,
Speaker:which we're super excited about. So what I like about this episode
Speaker:though is listening back to what he had to say back in 2024.
Speaker:It's not just growth that stands out, but it's his approach. He
Speaker:actually teaches a lot in a way that he wants to learn. He talks about
Speaker:being very visual and wanting to learn that way. And of course, medicine,
Speaker:anatomy, which which we talked about during this episode, is very visual.
Speaker:And this has actually been able to scale for him very well. And he's been
Speaker:able to go beyond just using video, but is using video as a primary
Speaker:mechanism to reach out. And if you read some of the comments, and I encourage
Speaker:you to go out, find his YouTube channel, we'll link to it down below, go
Speaker:read some of the comments from the people who have benefited from
Speaker:this content. I hope you enjoy the rest of this episode as I look back
Speaker:with time on his journey from medical doctor YouTube
Speaker:creator. We've got Taim Dawood, and he's a
Speaker:29-year-old newly graduated medical doctor from Norway running a
Speaker:medical educational YouTube channel which was made in the early days of
Speaker:med school. He started his channel during, during his first year of medical school
Speaker:with an aim to simplify difficult concepts in medicine and
Speaker:help other people learn in a faster and easier way.
Speaker:With that said, please help me welcome Taim to the Visual Lounge.
Speaker:Well, welcome. Thank you very much. Thank you for that beautiful introduction.
Speaker:Well, thank you for being here. We appreciate you, you know,
Speaker:bridging time zones to meet at a time after a long day at the hospital.
Speaker:What's one tip that you would give our audience about, you know,
Speaker:making, creating videos that might help them in their work?
Speaker:Well, I can give tips based on my experience, and I
Speaker:started this medical YouTube educational channel during my medical school,
Speaker:during my first year of medical school. And, um, I
Speaker:started without any background knowledge on how
Speaker:to edit videos and how to teach online, how to make YouTube videos or
Speaker:anything. So if one, I have a lot
Speaker:of tips, but just if I only had one tip I could give is
Speaker:start even though you don't have any experience, because you will learn
Speaker:along the way. That's basically how I did. Uh,
Speaker:I just started making my first videos really bad. Those people who
Speaker:follow my YouTube channel from the beginning, they know how my
Speaker:old videos used to be and how my new videos are. So you basically
Speaker:learn along the way. So start even though you don't have any experience.
Speaker:I love that because that's, I mean, that's great advice because that's the only way
Speaker:you're going to get better is by getting going. I'm curious and I want to,
Speaker:I want to have this conversation because I think you're in a unique position. I
Speaker:don't know personally how many doctors are
Speaker:out there who are also running YouTube channels? I'm guessing there's a handful
Speaker:of you, but it's probably not like a million. It's
Speaker:probably not even 100,000. You know, it's probably maybe 100, couple hundred.
Speaker:And I'm curious for you, you kind of in your intro, it talks about you,
Speaker:you started this during the early days of med school. What was
Speaker:really your thinking at that point? Because here, I, you know, I don't know what
Speaker:it's like where you are, but in the US, I think of med school is
Speaker:it's incredibly challenging. It's It's got a huge demand on time. It's got
Speaker:all these things that say like, the last thing I want, I would want to
Speaker:do is also take on a project to create this
Speaker:content. So tell us a little bit about your thinking about what, what, what
Speaker:was, went into that decision to start. So
Speaker:the reason why I started is basically,
Speaker:it's not the usual reason why you start a YouTube
Speaker:channel. Most doctors who are on YouTube, they, Many teach
Speaker:medicine and many have that, have it as a vlog, so they just film their
Speaker:daily life and, and stuff like that. I started YouTube, uh,
Speaker:not with the intention of becoming a YouTuber.
Speaker:Um, I started first year of medical school and,
Speaker:uh, my brain is very visual. Uh, I can't learn if it's
Speaker:only text. And we started with anatomy. I remember anatomy,
Speaker:uh, the university gave us a huge companion, a huge
Speaker:pile of a lot of written texts for
Speaker:anatomy. And anatomy is like basically all, it shows
Speaker:all organs. You need to know all the structures on different organs. And I,
Speaker:there was no way I could read that, all of those texts.
Speaker:So I, what I did was I took, for example, we had a class
Speaker:on Thursday and the weekend before I just took,
Speaker:I just read through those notes and I tried to make a presentation
Speaker:with a lot of pictures. And then just to make things easier
Speaker:for me, I made that presentation, I just recorded it
Speaker:and I uploaded it to a YouTube channel so that I can
Speaker:listen to myself on my way to the, you know, university or on my way
Speaker:to the gym or anything. And that way I would passively learn.
Speaker:Basically, I would be ready for the class
Speaker:without spending a lot of hours, you know, studying for the class.
Speaker:So I did that, and
Speaker:over time, I think I uploaded like 30 videos to that YouTube channel. I didn't
Speaker:have any views, but then suddenly I got like my first
Speaker:comments on that, on one of those videos.
Speaker:And then it just struck me. I was like, okay, people can actually see those
Speaker:videos. I didn't know that, you know, So,
Speaker:um, the first ever comment I got was, thank you, that was helpful, it
Speaker:helped me from the past. Yeah. And I thought, oh,
Speaker:if somebody actually, you know, are having, you know, they, they,
Speaker:those videos are actually helping them, let me, you know, try to make it a
Speaker:little better. Let me continue with that. And so I just did that, you know,
Speaker:I just tried to make the video a little better. I just, uh, I kept
Speaker:making all my videos for free. I just kept uploading them. And, uh,
Speaker:the, the channel just grew from there. And, and, uh, what
Speaker:motivated me to continue YouTube was, uh, seeing all the
Speaker:comments of people saying that these videos actually helped them
Speaker:and that they passed anatomy because of those videos.
Speaker:Um, so that's, that's my story. I didn't— I never had any
Speaker:intention of becoming a YouTuber. I just— it just happened. Well,
Speaker:but, but I love that, right? Because it was a born out of a need
Speaker:that you felt and had. And, you know, obviously there's so much information that needs
Speaker:to be processed that you were doing it for yourself, but then it, it ends
Speaker:up helping these other people. So as you started to see
Speaker:that traction grow, like you got the, the first comment, you know, thank you,
Speaker:and then you can see people saying, oh, I passed anatomy for this. What were,
Speaker:you know, again, here you are very busy thinking about, like, you know, you're still
Speaker:doing, probably still doing it for yourself for a while to just help you move
Speaker:forward. But what were the things that you kind of keyed in on
Speaker:that said, if I can make this better, that,
Speaker:that really made a difference for maybe for you, or you saw that make the
Speaker:biggest difference for others? Because I imagine there's lots of— you got a lot of
Speaker:trade-offs to make when you're particularly the videos. I've seen your videos and they're
Speaker:beautiful. You're using a lot of— bringing a lot of tools together
Speaker:to make those. But what were some of those things you said, hey, this— if
Speaker:this can't— I got to make this better. If I'm going to keep doing this?
Speaker:Anything that stood out to you?
Speaker:I think one of the big changes early on in the channel
Speaker:was animations. And it's so much
Speaker:easier to explain structures using animations. And I didn't know how to— my
Speaker:earlier videos was just presentations, pictures and then text, and then I would
Speaker:click on next slide and, you know, so
Speaker:I think, um, once I started trying to animate a
Speaker:little bit, a little, you know, transitions at least, and
Speaker:changing, you know, views of organs and stuff like that, people, uh,
Speaker:said that— that's, that's when I started seeing a change
Speaker:to the channel as well. That's when people, more people started commenting and saying
Speaker:that this, this was really helpful, uh, and a way
Speaker:for me to see the organ on three-dimensional, uh
Speaker:view, you know, and it was easier for them to visualize
Speaker:it as well. So, so learning animations was,
Speaker:was, you know, the big, big breakthrough for my, uh,
Speaker:YouTube channel, if I understood the question correctly. Sorry. Yeah, no, no, that's
Speaker:absolutely— and what do you think of, like, so obviously seeing things
Speaker:in 3D, uh, was there something about that that you think
Speaker:helps from a learning perspective, particularly again, we're talking
Speaker:highly complex systems and, you know,
Speaker:I gotta imagine too, there's so many just like vocabulary
Speaker:pieces to, you know, an anatomy and then understanding all the structures and
Speaker:how they connect together. Like there's so much. What do you think about
Speaker:animations made that difference for your audience
Speaker:versus just, you know, what they were seeing maybe elsewhere or what they're
Speaker:getting out of their books and lecture? So the way I
Speaker:make my YouTube videos is that I teach based on how I
Speaker:wish I would learn from YouTube.
Speaker:So for example, if the teacher said that next
Speaker:week we're going to learn about the peritoneum, and the peritoneum is, you
Speaker:know, the fat layer that, that protects all the organs within the abdominal cavity.
Speaker:And if I, for the first time in my life, I heard the word
Speaker:peritoneum, and I go into YouTube and
Speaker:I open a video and I try to make videos based on how
Speaker:I wish that video could teach me so that I learn everything.
Speaker:Yeah. So I teach based on how I learn. Uh,
Speaker:and that's, that's basically what I continued on for
Speaker:the YouTube channel. And I learn
Speaker:best with, uh, when organs are visualized.
Speaker:And not just visualize with one picture, because in order for me to
Speaker:understand this, this view of the organ, I need to see the lateral
Speaker:view, the medial view, the posterior view, and that way I have a full,
Speaker:you know, um, idea of how that organ
Speaker:not just looks like, but how it works as well. Uh,
Speaker:so, uh, that's why I went try to make a more
Speaker:3D, uh, animated type of videos, uh, because
Speaker:that's how I learn. Things better. And
Speaker:obviously, as far as I understood after doing
Speaker:that, I saw that a lot of other people also learn easier that way.
Speaker:So yeah, I love it. So
Speaker:obviously, you've been doing this for a couple years, your channel is, you know, I
Speaker:was looking here over 100,000 subscribers, which is amazing. Congratulations
Speaker:on that. Helping. I mean, that's helping a lot of people who are
Speaker:moving through their medical— to their medical careers. And I'm curious
Speaker:now that you've kind of moved through the— and I'm sure you're always learning as
Speaker:a doctor, right? There's always something new. There's always topics that, you
Speaker:know, you have to kind of continue growing in. But now
Speaker:as you're balancing this, you know, you talked about before that you were like, this
Speaker:is what I need to learn, and this is how I wanted to learn. As
Speaker:you continue, because you're continuing to do this, what are you
Speaker:considering as like the fodder for the topic or the material
Speaker:that you're like, oh, I need to make a video about this? How are you
Speaker:coming about those decisions at this point in your career? Yeah, that's, that's
Speaker:a good question. And, and those are things that I thought about a lot. Um,
Speaker:when I started the YouTube channel, I started it during my first semester, and we
Speaker:didn't have any clinical, um, subjects at that time. We only had
Speaker:like just basic, uh, human physiology and basic
Speaker:human anatomy and stuff like that. And I started the channel
Speaker:based on anatomy, and anatomy in our medical school is 1.5 years.
Speaker:And obviously after a year, um, I didn't cover everything,
Speaker:and those topics that I did cover was not that great.
Speaker:Um, so later on when I finished, uh,
Speaker:anatomy and started going into third year and fourth year of medical
Speaker:school and started having, you know, cardiology, neurology, and all of those
Speaker:clinical subjects, I thought since I
Speaker:started with anatomy, I want to at least
Speaker:finish it. So that's basically what
Speaker:I did. I just went by our school curriculum.
Speaker:And so, for example, we had about the central nervous system, and
Speaker:I started, even though I had a class on cardiology, something
Speaker:completely irrelevant, I just made sure to
Speaker:set aside time to teach, make a video, for example, about the cerebral
Speaker:cortex, and then another video about the internal,
Speaker:you know, parts of the brain. And then I just continued, um,
Speaker:through that curriculum. Um, and now
Speaker:recently, that's actually after 6 years
Speaker:of having that YouTube channel, I finished. I covered all the subjects of anatomy.
Speaker:Um, and it's not that it took me 6 years to
Speaker:finish it. It just took me 6 years to learn how to
Speaker:animate and learn how to make YouTube videos and learn how to
Speaker:teach and all of those, all of that package. It wasn't just,
Speaker:you know, anatomy is not that hard. It's not like you need 6 years to,
Speaker:you know, it's, it's just, uh,
Speaker:the fact that, you know, learn how to make those videos and stuff like that.
Speaker:Um, and there was a point where I
Speaker:actually nearly finished the whole anatomy. I think it took me 2 years.
Speaker:Uh, but then when COVID hit, we had a lot of
Speaker:online classes and I took a
Speaker:project. I thought, let me just, you know,
Speaker:remake all my previous videos since I have a little bit more experience now.
Speaker:And so that's what I did. I, uh, it took me one and a half
Speaker:year to remake all the previous videos that I did and make a more high,
Speaker:higher quality ones with, you know, um, I didn't have
Speaker:any microphone. I didn't have it, you know. So, so those new, new
Speaker:videos were kind of Um, with, with, with a microphone,
Speaker:with a better visualization, stuff like that. Uh, and all my previous
Speaker:videos, I put them, you know, I hid them. It's private. Um, yeah.
Speaker:Yeah. So now that I've finished anatomy,
Speaker:uh, now I'm graduated, I finished anatomy. Uh, I
Speaker:did make a poll and ask all my viewers, uh, all ask my
Speaker:subscribers on what subject they would want to learn
Speaker:first. So, uh, we landed on cardiology.
Speaker:And so now, um, even though I'm not working in cardiology
Speaker:departments, I'm in emergency department right now, surgery.
Speaker:Um, I still, I am planning on
Speaker:what all covering all the subjects of cardiology because,
Speaker:you know, all subjects are important as a medical doctor. You need to know,
Speaker:you know, at least you know that knowledge of everything, not that you need to
Speaker:know everything in that subject, but you have a lot of knowledge of it. Uh,
Speaker:so that's what I'm doing. Even though I'm not working
Speaker:with cardiology, I am going to cover all, uh,
Speaker:subjects, all the topics in cardiology. And then after that, I
Speaker:will move on to another subject, you know. I will just continue it that way.
Speaker:And, and most of it is for my own learning. And
Speaker:that is actually a really important point when it comes to making an
Speaker:educational channel. Um, teach based on,
Speaker:you know, who have the, the main— your main
Speaker:idea, your main reason why you want to make those videos should be for
Speaker:your own learning. Um,
Speaker:and, and, and, you know, find ways, you know, teach based on how you want
Speaker:to be taught. Uh, and try, try to have the
Speaker:idea, make the videos based, you know, because you want to learn about it.
Speaker:Yeah, well, well, it doesn't escape me, and, and, and I know,
Speaker:you know, from a language perspective, I don't know if this translates super well, but
Speaker:like the fact that your viewers wanted cardiology is really just a matter of
Speaker:the heart. You know, they loved it so much, right
Speaker:from the heart. But what could be
Speaker:time? I'm, I love that process, right? And I love that you're talking like,
Speaker:you know, in educational, particularly channels, it's got to be something that you're interested in.
Speaker:You've got to, you know, think about the way you want to learn because there's
Speaker:obviously a connection there to others who want that as well. Can
Speaker:we, can we take a little time? I wanna break down a little bit of
Speaker:what you do because again, you're, you're talking about these
Speaker:complex topics that obviously are,
Speaker:there's visuals involved, but could you at a high level at least
Speaker:walk us through, let's say you've got your next topic, whatever it might be, maybe
Speaker:it's cardiology related or maybe it's an anatomy one.
Speaker:And I know you just made a really great video talking about your full process,
Speaker:But for the purpose of our audience, we can link to that video.
Speaker:But just walk us through kind of your start to finish of what goes into
Speaker:making a video. Are you like, you pick a topic and then, then what? And
Speaker:what leads you to kind of final product on, on YouTube?
Speaker:Sure. There's actually, I, while I've made
Speaker:a couple of, I've made a lot of videos, maybe 100, over 100 videos, and
Speaker:I never really thought about, do I have any steps on how I make those
Speaker:videos? And since I have a lot of— that I get a lot of comments
Speaker:on asking me, yeah, I want to start a medical educational channel, but I don't
Speaker:know how. Do you have any tips? What programs do you use? And stuff like
Speaker:that. And so that's why I decided to make that, uh, recent video.
Speaker:And that was actually the first time I ever showed myself as well. Uh, I,
Speaker:I don't really usually show myself. I, I'm really, um,
Speaker:embarrassed in front of the computer, in front of the camera. But,
Speaker:um, that was, uh, that was a huge project that I took in. And
Speaker:I tried to analyze how I make videos, and I came
Speaker:up with 7 steps on, on,
Speaker:um, so if you want to make a medical education channel, the medical
Speaker:video, there are 7 steps you, you should go through. And the first step
Speaker:is plan, uh, plan the top, you know, what
Speaker:top, what, what is the topic you're going to present? How are you going
Speaker:to present it? Um, what sources are you going to use? You
Speaker:know, make sure that you use sources that are up to date because when it
Speaker:comes to medical subjects, you have to be up to date sources
Speaker:and either primary sources or secondary sources on, you know,
Speaker:so planning is the first one. Second one is you want to start
Speaker:making a presentation and I keep it simple.
Speaker:Again, I don't have a lot of experience. I keep it simple. I use PowerPoint,
Speaker:same as we used back in primary school. So
Speaker:PowerPoint. So make a PowerPoint presentation.
Speaker:And PowerPoint has a lot of good animations you can
Speaker:use and, and, you know, things that you can use to make
Speaker:the PowerPoint presentation pretty well, uh, good looking as well.
Speaker:So make the presentation. The third one is make a script.
Speaker:Some people just talk freely following the
Speaker:presentation. I like to use a script when I
Speaker:record. The fourth step is
Speaker:record. The presentation using that script and then
Speaker:edit that recording. And then you need
Speaker:to, you know, screencast that after you've just
Speaker:talked. The fifth one is, you know,
Speaker:screencast the PowerPoint presentation over the edited
Speaker:recording that you just recorded. And then the
Speaker:sixth step, I don't know if Yeah, 6th step is,
Speaker:uh, edit the video, you know, add,
Speaker:edit the video. I use Camtasia for that one. So edit the video, um,
Speaker:uh, you know, add animations, add extra things that could make your
Speaker:video more, um, um, you know,
Speaker:uh, dynamic. Yeah. And so, and the last one, the 7th
Speaker:step is make a The 7th step is really,
Speaker:you know, if you want to, uh, the 7th step I use, I use Canva
Speaker:to make a, you know, cover image. I try to make a description for the
Speaker:video, try to include everything, uh, in the description that the video includes
Speaker:to just to make it easier for the viewer if they want to, as more
Speaker:summarized version. If you don't want to watch the video, uh, you can just
Speaker:go to the description and just read what the video covers
Speaker:basically. So those are the 7 steps. Uh, that I
Speaker:primarily go through. Well, no, I love that.
Speaker:And I love the simplicity in the sense that you're not overcomplicating it,
Speaker:right? Because as someone who, again, making an
Speaker:assumption here that you're super busy and this is one more thing to do.
Speaker:If it was much harder, it becomes a barrier to getting it done,
Speaker:right?
Speaker:Again, it depends on how you look at it. For me, it's more
Speaker:of a lifestyle, to be honest. I really enjoy making YouTube videos,
Speaker:and the reason why I enjoy it is because I learn a lot from it.
Speaker:And when I learn something from it, I enjoy it more.
Speaker:So I don't really look at it as work, even though I
Speaker:have long shifts at the hospital and
Speaker:sometimes I am tired. And when I am tired, I take a break.
Speaker:I make food, I watch series, Netflix and stuff like that.
Speaker:But I do have personal life as well,
Speaker:of course. But, um, I just make sure, I just make sure to, you
Speaker:know, give YouTube at least 1 hour of the day, even
Speaker:though I'm not so efficient during that hour because I am tired. I
Speaker:just, you know, give it 1 hour. As long as I
Speaker:just write 1 sentence, for example, I'm, I'm happy, you know.
Speaker:So 1 video can take 1 month, Or it can take 1
Speaker:week, uh, depending on how much, how my energy
Speaker:level is, how much I have to do and, and, and things like that. But
Speaker:I just make sure to, to keep going, to keep give YouTube at least 1
Speaker:hour. Well, I, I, I wanna say, I, you know, I've talked to,
Speaker:I mean, we're probably what, episode 207 of this show,
Speaker:right? And I, so I've talked to so many different creators and people are
Speaker:making learning content, for corporations. I've talked to YouTube creators who are making
Speaker:informational type videos and have big audiences.
Speaker:But this is the first time I've heard this approach and I absolutely
Speaker:love this. And so that like, because it's very
Speaker:healthy. Like if I just— you have a scheduled kind of
Speaker:block, I'm going to put 1 hour and whether you get a sentence or you
Speaker:get a full video or whatever it is, I love that because it's always
Speaker:making progress. And you're making effort forward. But
Speaker:you're, you know, what it sounds like is you're not at the end of the
Speaker:day. It's not about, oh gosh, I've got to meet the grind of
Speaker:a video a week or a video a day or whatever it is. And I
Speaker:get why some people need to do that. They feel like that because it's their
Speaker:business model or whatever. But I think that's a really awesome approach to say,
Speaker:like, let's just make some progress, but do it every day consistently.
Speaker:And that gets you done faster than, you know, not doing anything, right?
Speaker:I think that's something I want to comment on because I think every
Speaker:YouTuber or everyone that, that, you know, make
Speaker:YouTube videos, they have had a time where they feel like they need to upload
Speaker:something. And I really felt that
Speaker:during my last year of medical school because I had so much to do.
Speaker:You know, we had like, you needed to write a thesis and needed to
Speaker:study for the state exam and stuff like that. So I didn't have a lot
Speaker:of time for, for YouTube. But during that time, uh,
Speaker:I felt like I, I really need to push myself to,
Speaker:to, um, make a YouTube video. I really need to push myself,
Speaker:you know. And, and, and that was, that was unhealthy.
Speaker:Uh, that was when I started having a, uh,
Speaker:negative, um, you know, approach to the whole you
Speaker:making a YouTube, making educational YouTube, uh
Speaker:channel. So I did
Speaker:have a time when, you know, I went, I
Speaker:tried, I pushed myself a lot and I wasn't efficient at all. And the
Speaker:videos I made was not as good of a quality, which
Speaker:I would make usually when I, you know, make, I enjoy making
Speaker:the videos. So I have had a time when I
Speaker:really pushed myself and I figured out that this is not a good way. Uh,
Speaker:so you take 1 hour. If it's 1 sentence,
Speaker:it's fine. If it's— you make a whole presentation just during 1 hour, that's
Speaker:perfect. But if you're not efficient, if it takes you
Speaker:2 months even to make 1 video, that's totally fine. Uh,
Speaker:I'm making this channel just to teach, uh, and for my own
Speaker:learning as well. And I never had the intention of becoming a YouTuber.
Speaker:I had intentions of teaching. And so if I start thinking
Speaker:that I need to upload, I have this urge, you know, to— I need to
Speaker:upload, I need to upload— that's when you start having this
Speaker:unhealthy relationship to the, to the YouTube channel.
Speaker:Um, so I think this is something you need to keep in mind all the
Speaker:time. So even though you don't upload, um, once a week,
Speaker:even though you don't upload once a month, it's totally fine. Yeah,
Speaker:just keep that mentality. I love it. Well, we're going to
Speaker:go to our speed round questions. But before we do, you know, you mentioned during
Speaker:our first— when we asked you about the tip at the beginning, any, any
Speaker:tip that you would want to tell people that maybe we haven't had
Speaker:a chance to talk about yet? Anything you want to mention? We'll get to our
Speaker:speed round and kind of final stuff, but I want to give you that chance
Speaker:before we, we jump in. Yeah. So
Speaker:there are a lot of tips I can give if you're— at least I can
Speaker:give you a tip based on if you're a medical student and want to make
Speaker:educational videos. Or if you just want to make educational videos and you're
Speaker:a student or, you know, part-time next to your work or, uh, you know,
Speaker:uh, the first tip is, you know, start even though you don't have any experience,
Speaker:as I said earlier. Uh, because if you wait,
Speaker:if you study and study, how are you going to make the video? How are
Speaker:you going, you know, you will never, you will never start that way.
Speaker:You just, you will just get discouraged because you feel like you're not good
Speaker:enough. You don't have enough experience. You. You know, so
Speaker:just start even though you don't have any experience. Uh,
Speaker:the next tip I can give you is even though you don't
Speaker:have any views, just keep going. You know, have a set of goals.
Speaker:Like, why are you— why did you make that video to be— why did you
Speaker:make that YouTube channel to begin with? Is it for your own learning, or is
Speaker:it for, you know, if you have— do you have a plan
Speaker:of actually becoming a YouTuber? Have a set of goals and just keep going,
Speaker:and the views will come after a while anyway.
Speaker:So just keep, keep uploading, keep making videos, don't get
Speaker:discouraged. And of course,
Speaker:while uploading a lot of videos,
Speaker:as I said earlier, when I was in last year, in the 6th year, I
Speaker:did feel like, you know, it was a more of a work, not a
Speaker:hobby. And I pushed myself and I wanted to give up on YouTube.
Speaker:And that is what I also, I think is also a really important, uh,
Speaker:point to, to get across is don't give up when you're, you know,
Speaker:tired. Just keep going. It's okay to take a break,
Speaker:uh, but when you take a break, just keep going, keep going back
Speaker:to YouTube. So, um, yeah.
Speaker:And yeah, I have a set of goals. Like, why did you make that
Speaker:YouTube channel to begin with? For me, it was to teach
Speaker:and learn. And that is my primary,
Speaker:you know, reason why I keep going on the YouTube channel.
Speaker:Yeah. Well, wonderful tips and advice, things I think we
Speaker:can all be better at practicing. Well, time— we're going to jump into our
Speaker:speed round questions. For those who are new to the show or haven't listened to
Speaker:this part, this is where we're going to play a little stinger and then we're
Speaker:going to ask some answers based on a die roll. So let's go ahead and
Speaker:play that and we'll jump right in. So here we go.
Speaker:All right, we're gonna jump over to our dice cam. So we've got this die
Speaker:here that we're gonna roll, and we've got a couple questions on.
Speaker:Let's see if it can focus. Come on, come on. Ah, my
Speaker:camera doesn't want to focus for whatever reason, but I can tell you it looks
Speaker:like a 5. It is a 6. There we go.
Speaker:There we go, it's a 6. I don't know what, what it's doing with the
Speaker:focus, but there it is. So with number question 6,
Speaker:here we go. So
Speaker:this is a share a piece of advice. You've shared a lot of advice with
Speaker:us actually. It's really great. But what's a piece of advice that you've received that
Speaker:has, has had lasting impact on you? Anything
Speaker:that someone said to you that's kind of changed? It doesn't have to be about
Speaker:video. It could be about anything, but anything that's kind of changed you or shaped
Speaker:you as a person. Yeah. So I have, One thing in my— I did
Speaker:receive a lot of tips which have changed my life to the better,
Speaker:which have, you know, I've kept, you know, close to my heart.
Speaker:But one thing, one tip that really helped me during
Speaker:my, especially during my years of studying medicine, your
Speaker:physical health is as important as studying
Speaker:for your exams. Because when you are
Speaker:under a lot of pressure, sometimes you feel like you don't have enough time to
Speaker:focus on your physical health. And when
Speaker:you don't focus on your physical health, that impacts
Speaker:negatively on your mental health as well, and you get prone for
Speaker:depression and anxiety, all of those things.
Speaker:So one tip that I received was that focus on
Speaker:your physical health. Try to put in at least half an hour,
Speaker:at least 1 hour of workout. And if you don't have time to work out,
Speaker:at least try to eat or
Speaker:lay off those sweets during those periods that you're not
Speaker:working out to keep the body
Speaker:healthy. And that's a really important tip,
Speaker:actually, for as a medical standpoint as well,
Speaker:because when the body is healthy, when you're
Speaker:working out, consistently, your blood flow
Speaker:gets optimized, your lipid level gets optimized, and all of those things.
Speaker:And your blood supply, your oxygen supply to the brain gets optimized as well,
Speaker:which at least optimizes the functioning of the brain.
Speaker:And so I think that's the most important tip that I've
Speaker:received, and I've tried to incorporate it into my life as well,
Speaker:is try to keep working, uh, you know,
Speaker:keep workout within your daily life. I love
Speaker:it. So the doctor's orders, we, we got to go. If you make sure you're
Speaker:doing that, make— I can't promise you to make better videos, but it can
Speaker:help, right? So, well, let's do another question here. I don't know, again, I don't
Speaker:know why my— this camera is not working. Hang
Speaker:on, try this again. There we go.
Speaker:It's still blurry, so we're gonna go with, uh, blurry, and everyone's just
Speaker:gonna have to trust me. But there we go, we rolled the 12. Okay,
Speaker:so this is the next question for you is what's
Speaker:your one go-to tool that helps you get your job done on
Speaker:a regular basis? This could be a piece of software, it could be a physical
Speaker:piece of gear, it could be anything. We'll, we'll focus on your,
Speaker:your video creation side, not maybe your medical side, because I'm sure it's a whole
Speaker:different set of tools. But is there one tool or a
Speaker:piece of equipment that you go to as your go-to? Yeah, there is. There's
Speaker:one tool that I use for everything, actually. It's a to-do list.
Speaker:It's on an app called Microsoft To-Do List. And what I
Speaker:like to do the day before, so for example, today,
Speaker:I try to plan tomorrow.
Speaker:So I try to make it as detailed as possible
Speaker:to the point where I even write what I am going to eat for
Speaker:breakfast and from what time to what time. So for example, I'm going to wake
Speaker:up at 5:30 in the morning and from 5:30
Speaker:to 6, I'm going to
Speaker:take a shower and breakfast and then keep
Speaker:making, planning my day that way. And
Speaker:it has helped me being more efficient during the day because
Speaker:sometimes some days when I haven't planned anything,
Speaker:I try to be efficient, but I feel like I haven't been
Speaker:efficient at all, um, because everything that I want to do, I haven't
Speaker:had time to do it. So when I have this to-do list, I just, you
Speaker:know, check off those points. And at the end of the day, I feel like
Speaker:this day has been a really efficient day because I finished off so many
Speaker:points. So Microsoft To Do, or any to-do
Speaker:list app, I think everybody's— everyone
Speaker:should at least try to incorporate it into their lives.
Speaker:It has helped me being more efficient, uh, during my studies and
Speaker:work and YouTube and everything. I love it. Perfect. Great advice. Let's do
Speaker:one more here. It's still going to be blurry, but that's okay. And
Speaker:we've rolled a, a 5. So this time—
Speaker:so, okay, this, this is a fun one because you're
Speaker:even, uh, you are a great person of learning, right? So if you could
Speaker:instantly acquire a new skill,
Speaker:like, just like that, what would that skill be and why? So
Speaker:you get that superpower, you get to pick up one skill perfectly instantly,
Speaker:what would it be?
Speaker:I've actually, you know, to be honest,
Speaker:I am not a person who picks up information quickly.
Speaker:And I can use my little brother as an example. He's also studying med— he,
Speaker:he, he's, he used, he studied medicine, uh, one year.
Speaker:Uh, so I was in, you know, how was this? Yeah. How was I
Speaker:gonna formulate this one? Um,
Speaker:yeah, my little brother is also in med school, and my—
Speaker:if you want to compare my little brother with me, he's a
Speaker:type who only reads a sentence once and he understands it. Like,
Speaker:he just sticks in his brain. I have
Speaker:to, uh, put in a lot of work. I have to put in a lot
Speaker:of work. I have to study. I have to draw it. I have to visualize
Speaker:it. I have to, you know, I have to do a lot more. And so
Speaker:if this one thing I could actually try, wish I could
Speaker:acquire is learn information just by reading it once or something like that.
Speaker:That would be amazing. Yeah. But
Speaker:then again, if you learn things just
Speaker:straight away, it takes away the hard working part,
Speaker:if that makes sense. Yeah, it does. Well, we'll just say your brother gets
Speaker:the benefit of watching all your videos though. So, you know,
Speaker:Exactly. He just, he just
Speaker:reads one page and then starts gaming or something.
Speaker:He's listening to those videos you made. I can guarantee it.
Speaker:Well, well, time. This has been just a wonderful conversation. I appreciate you
Speaker:spending some time with me. Before we wrap up, if someone wanted to
Speaker:go watch your videos, go, go learn from you, you know, connect with you,
Speaker:where, where should they go? Uh, so
Speaker:obviously it's a YouTube channel. That's, that's, uh, the main
Speaker:page where I upload all my, uh, videos. But I
Speaker:did recently make an Instagram account. Uh, so if
Speaker:anybody wants to, you know, contact me, have questions, uh,
Speaker:want to follow me on social media, I, I have, uh, an Instagram
Speaker:account for the YouTube channel called Time Talks Med. So
Speaker:go follow it. You know, subscribe to the channel and
Speaker:yeah, that's perfect. We'll link to those in the comments and
Speaker:descriptions and all that stuff. So if anyone wants to find those easily, you can.
Speaker:Well, with that said, Taim, again, appreciate you so much.
Speaker:We always like to ask our guests for their final take, kind of that
Speaker:summary, the wrap-up for our show. For you, Taim, what is
Speaker:your final take from today's conversation?
Speaker:Well, just to wrap up, uh, what I said earlier is
Speaker:that if you are a student, especially in medical
Speaker:school, and want to teach medicine, I urge
Speaker:you to start without any experience. Just start and then learn along the way.
Speaker:And the beautiful thing about the teaching is that
Speaker:when you teach, you learn more. When you teach, um,
Speaker:you're— the information that you've learned stays in the brain
Speaker:for a longer period of time, and you can build on that one easier.
Speaker:So teaching is actually the best form of learning. Time. This
Speaker:has been fantastic. I want to thank you again for joining me in the Visual
Speaker:Lounge, and, and thank you for all the great videos that you make. And, you
Speaker:know, as someone who, uh, I'm, I'm not in the medical field at all, but
Speaker:I do have friends and I understand how challenging it is, I'm sure there's many
Speaker:people who are very appreciative for all the work you're, you're doing. So thank
Speaker:you. Thank you very much, Matt, and thank you for inviting me to this channel.
Speaker:Absolutely, absolutely glad to have you. So, all right, everybody,
Speaker:that— isn't this awesome? You know, and we talked a lot about medical school and
Speaker:medicine and things like that, but this applies to— you could apply this to
Speaker:any field. The things that Time is doing, the conversations that he's having, the ways
Speaker:that he's teaching, educating, learning— it doesn't have to be medicine, but
Speaker:he's doing it really well. So go check out his channel, go check out his
Speaker:stuff, Of course, we're all about teaching and educating here at TechSmith as well. We
Speaker:want you to be better. We want you to be better at making videos, better
Speaker:at using images in your workplace, whatever that might be. So we hope that,
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Speaker:really want is for you to take a little time to level up every single
Speaker:day. Thanks, everybody.