{"id":194,"date":"2020-04-20T11:18:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T10:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/?p=194"},"modified":"2020-04-20T11:18:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T10:18:40","slug":"guest-blog-introducing-the-we-are-medics-youtube-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/2020\/04\/20\/guest-blog-introducing-the-we-are-medics-youtube-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Blog &#8211; Introducing the We Are Medics YouTube channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-233 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2020\/04\/Atousa-Khiabany-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2020\/04\/Atousa-Khiabany-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2020\/04\/Atousa-Khiabany-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2020\/04\/Atousa-Khiabany-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2020\/04\/Atousa-Khiabany-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2020\/04\/Atousa-Khiabany-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2020\/04\/Atousa-Khiabany.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>Today on the MDS Outreach blog we have a post from Atousa Khiabany, a member <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bwams.co.uk\">Birmingham Widening Access to the Medical Sciences<\/a> (BWAMS).<\/p>\n<p>Hi, my name is Atousa and I\u2019m a first year Graduate Entry Medicine student at the University of Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>When I was making my application to study medicine, it was the advice and experience from my friends who were already medical students that really helped me and pushed me through.\u00a0For that reason, I set up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCHqZQfiHG-DjHS2h_CZ8voQ\">We Are Medics YouTube channel<\/a> to share lots of student voices and help all of the students who need information, advice or just someone to tell them to \u2018just keep going!\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-199 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2020\/04\/IMG_3574-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2020\/04\/IMG_3574-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2020\/04\/IMG_3574-190x250.jpg 190w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2020\/04\/IMG_3574.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 85vw, 228px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the past 4 years I have been running my own personal YouTube channel, covering content from medicine, science, research and university life. It has been a pleasure to apply some of the things I\u2019ve learnt to our We Are Medics channel and work as part of BWAMS to help as many students as we can.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Atousa Khiabany<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>A huge thanks to Atousa for all the time and effort she put into putting the You Tube channel together.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information about BWAMS activities and support follow these links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Web:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bwams.co.uk\">https:\/\/www.bwams.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>You Tube:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCHqZQfiHG-DjHS2h_CZ8voQ\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCHqZQfiHG-DjHS2h_CZ8voQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bwamsbirmingham\">@BWAMSbirmingham<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/we_are_medics\">@we_are_medics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Instagram:<\/strong> @bwamsbirmingham and @wearemedics<\/p>\n<p><strong>MDS Outreach can be found using the following links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Web:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/university\/colleges\/mds\/outreach-widening-participation\/index.aspx\">www.birmingham.ac.uk\/MDSOutreach<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UoB_MDSOutreach\">@UoB_MDSOutreach<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Instagram:<\/strong> @uob_mdsoutreach<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blog:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/\">https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Email:<\/strong> MDSOutreach@contacts.bham.ac.uk<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on the MDS Outreach blog we have a post from Atousa Khiabany, a member Birmingham Widening Access to the Medical Sciences (BWAMS). Hi, my name is Atousa and I\u2019m a first year Graduate Entry Medicine student at the University of Birmingham. When I was making my application to study medicine, it was the advice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/2020\/04\/20\/guest-blog-introducing-the-we-are-medics-youtube-channel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Guest Blog &#8211; Introducing the We Are Medics YouTube channel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mds-outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}