Speaker 1: Okay, let's get right to business and start showing you applications you can use to improve your life as a medical student. And the first application we're going to show is figure one. If you haven't heard of this one before, you can think of it as like an Instagram. But for doctors, here you can find posts from doctors all around the world sharing interesting cases, diagnostic images, EKGs, you name it. And it's really cool because you can learn from other people interact, share your thoughts, participate in challenges, leave comments and you can learn some really amazing things over there if you follow the appropriate people. Figure one also allows you to filter out the content to help you see just the topics you're interested in. Okay, the next tool in our list is UPDF. And I'm very happy to say that they're very kindly sponsoring this video and offering some amazing discounts to all of my subscribers. So UPDF is basically a PDF editor. And I've said this before and I'll say it again about what a PDF editor translates to in real life is as a tool that makes your life easier. To give you an example, consider the average second year medical student preparing for the step one. That student probably wants to learn using a book such as the first aid, but it wants to annotate it, right? And to annotate it, they have to purchase a physical copy, take out the cover, put the book in a binder, do all of those steps just to annotate a book. UPDF tells you forget all that. You want to annotate a book, just click this button right here and start typing away whatever you want. And if you're feeling more in the mood for sketching, just click right here and write whatever you want by hand or otherwise. Oh, and also don't worry if you're running out of space. You just need to click this button right here to organize the PDF and then add as many blank pages as you could possibly want. And there you have all the space you could possibly use to make your annotations and sketches. In a similar way, you can also click this button right here to edit the PDF and start transforming all sorts of images, tables and text to suit your needs. But besides annotation and editing, the magic of UPDF is that it puts just a click away everything you would ever want to do with a PDF. So sharing a PDF stops being this process of opening browsers and typing passwords and becomes a matter of just clicking a button and typing an address. Converting a PDF stops being this process of searching for sketchy converters in Google and becomes a matter of just clicking here and selecting among the repertorial formats you can use. And protecting your documents becomes as easy as clicking this button and typing a password. So if anything I just mentioned sounds interesting to you and you use either macOS, iOS, Windows or Android, make sure to check out UPDF for free using the link below. And if you end up deciding that you want the premium version, remember to use my link to get a 40% off discount in the plan of your choice. Okay, the next tool I want to talk about is SciHop. And this one is a game changer. So have you ever run into a scientific paper you want to read, but they ask you for money and you just don't want to pay? Yeah, that is a bummer. Good news is that all you need to do now is just copy the digital identifier, the one that's called DOI, and paste it in SciHop. And then you have a 90% chance that you get the paper for free. It doesn't work every time and sometimes they change your domain and you have to look for this new domain. But when it does work, it's a lifesaver. Now if you start using SciHop and you start to download all sorts of papers, you'll begin to notice how your files begin to pile up and get disorganized like mad. So to organize them, I recommend OneDrive. Why do I recommend OneDrive? Because most universities have an office affiliation that grants you a one terabyte of free storage in OneDrive. Most people don't know this. And in fact, 99% of my peers in medical school never learned about this because, well, no one talks about it, but it's really helpful. And if you have an email ending in .education.edu, chances are you too can use this feature. Just ask around and they'll teach you how to activate it. Other universities also give you unlimited storage in Google Drive. But in my experience, OneDrive tends to cover more universities across the globe. Now what I did with my OneDrive is create all sorts of folders for every specialty and every need. So for instance, as you can see here, I have a folder for cardiology, for endocrinology, for infectious diseases, etc, etc. And each folder has subfolders for papers, presentations, books, seminars, homeworks, everything. I also have folders for personal files with my ID, my vaccination records, all those things that med school likes to ask on a regular basis. Now speaking of benefits that come with being a medical student and having an educational account, there is one benefit you might not know about and it is a free one year subscription to Canva Premium. The way you get this is through an association with GitHub. And I'll leave some webpage explaining the process more in depth in the description. But again, just as with OneDrive, if you have a .education email, chances are you too can use this feature. Now why is Canva so great? Well, because it's a very versatile and intuitive design tool. Here you can create illustrations to include in your presentations. You can make full-fledged presentations. You can also make animations and videos and you name it. I, for instance, edited all the graphs of my research paper here. All of these? Yeah, those were made in Canva. Now if you want something a bit more professional, try out BioRender. This is a truly more professional app and keep in mind the cost shows that. But some medical schools grant you free access to the platform and yeah, sometimes you do need a bit of more professional level of medical illustrations. For instance, I used this app to create the midbrain cross section I showed in my last video. Now our next application is EmptyCalc and this one is very straightforward. This application basically has every formula, score and algorithm you would ever want to use in medical school. Here you can do stuff like calculate the probability that someone has a pulmonary embolism, the risk that someone is having a heart attack, the way to correct the patient's calcium based on its albumin, a bunch of stuff you'll use in your rotations. Here EmptyCalc does everything for you. Now our next application in the list is Medscape and this one, I don't even know how to describe it. It's like a huge medical database of everything. It has mini review articles of most diseases. It has a newsletter with posts detailing the latest trials and medical conferences around the world, but it also has clinical cases and challenges and EKG cases and I think it even has a podcast. I mean, you can find a bit of everything here really. Personally, the thing I liked the most were the mini reviews. Those were really helpful when I was in my preclinical years to kind of get a sense of every disease without losing too much time reading it and also the challenges. Those were amazing, especially the EKG ones. Those are really tough. I wouldn't recommend starting with those, but once you do have a bit of a grasp of EKGs, these ones give you really the mastery of EKGs. Oh, and in case you're wondering, most if not all of the content on Medscape is completely free. All you need to do is create an account and that's pretty much it. Now, our next tool is actually a webpage and it's called Life in the Fast Lane and this page specializes in teaching you how to become a master in reading EKGs. It has a huge library on everything you would ever want to know and also a bunch of cases for you to practice. It's really, really, really good. On a similar vein, we have Radiopedia, which is like Life in the Fast Lane, but for radiology. Here you can find articles, mnemonics, clinical cases, seminars, pretty much whatever you want about radiology and I've probably learned most of what I know about the topic from here. So yeah, pretty, pretty amazing tool. Okay, our next application is QXRead and this is a fantastic application to stay updated on the latest and most popular research going around the medical community. It's probably not a tool you can really take advantage on until after you have a good clinical grasp, but once you do, it's an amazing tool to stay updated and move along with the medical community. Another amazing tool is UpToDate, but I believe that this is very mainstream now, so I will not go over all the details, but yeah, this is a really great application to stay updated and in general to learn medicine. In fact, this is probably my go-to application to have in-depth and updated knowledge on a disease for some reason. So this is the tool that I would rely on the most when I'm doing something like attending a patient, learning about a new disease, or preparing a seminar. I don't know, this is my go-to tool for those kind of things. Okay, and finally, there is Anki and all the other amazing tools that students typically use to study for exams and boards and they are fantastic, but I have other videos explaining them more in depth, so I would suggest you watch one of those videos in case you're interested. But for now, that was all for this video. Thanks for tuning and see you in the next one. you