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