The Real Kaur Beauty & Med School

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Hey, welcome. This is episode 7. In this episode I have the pleasure of interviewing Puneet to speak about her medical school and Youtube perspective. You can find her on YouTube, Instagram and Tik-Tok, @KaurBeauty, where she posts the best videos and pictures to share her beauty and medical Journey. She's almost, she's also almost at 100K on Instagram. So go give her a follow to help her reach that huge milestone. I've been following Puneet for several years. So I'm very happy to have the opportunity to connect with her. If you would like to learn more about the real KaurBeauty than keep listening. Hi Puneet! Thank you so much for joining me today.

Hi, that was like the cutest intro ever, thank you for adding brownness to my name. I appreciate that.

Yeah, of course, I mean full disclosure I did practice before we went live to make sure I said it right. Like I know how to say it but when you get nervous like you never know what's gonna come out.

I do that to myself too, Hi I’m Puneeet. With such an American accent. So, yeah I know we stick to our roots!

So my first question for you is like the most basic question that we all ask but what was the one very specific driving factor that motivated you to become a doctor.

So I feel like whenever we get this question, a lot of us go like oh we didn't have that single factor! Kind of true for me, so it is a huge bummer. For me It was just like honestly a ton of things and I think for everyone mostly it's like you have to take into account a lot of factors. Like, you know, the road is really rough. So like to do it, you know financially yeah. You have to look at a lot of things. So for me, I didn't exactly know how to become like the doctor. It wasn’t something I thought I was capable of academically to be fair and I was like, I'm kind of getting good grades and like, you know, my brothers are clearly like in medicine to and that was their plan. I was just like well, maybe I can do this and so I started like working and in different environments and I one of the main things was I just saw help broken Indian Healthcare System was so like even to this day and like I want to go back there and just like do whatever I can for mission trips and stuff. So I feel like that for me there was just so many things that I wanted to do. And like if I was academically able to and financially able to then I would go pursue it. So that's why I ended up doing so is kind of not something I planned since like I was like in middle school or anything but I mean just all going to put a switch. I'm so thankful for.

And that's a great answer. I think a lot of people don't have that one driving factor that motivated them and I think that's why we always get stuck when we're writing those essays as to like why do you want to do medicine, why do you want to do residency, but it's like well, there's like a ton of different reasons. That kind of just came together. Yeah, exactly. So like I mean, I thought was actually something I struggled with an application stuff is like why do you want to be a doctor? It was like probably one of the most loaded hardest question you answer, especially I think like if you are kind of on the quote-on quote job for life size because it's like, you know, I honestly just you know have the passion for it and I love it. Fortunately a lot of us, you know to be really wrong authentically sometimes we don't feel like that answer is good enough, right? And so I mean for me I just kind of look at it as like a lot of factors that go into place and nearly 30 narrated the right way that yeah me like a lot of people like I don't have that people kind of driving experience. That was suggesting I do that.

Yeah, and you know, that's totally normal. So my second question for you is how have you specifically managed your time as a part time social media content creator and YouTuber with like all the time that goes into editing things and then you have school. You have a super cute dog that have to take care of, your family, obligations. So all of that like, how do you manage your time?

Well for starters my super cute dog is behind a makeshift like barricade up my stairs. So that’s like part of my management strategy. But, to be fair Ive cut down the time I put into Social Media. So some free time so like extracurricular so you can pick and choose your answer. There's a Mindless social media. Stop started. It's like there's like an unending list of things. You should be doing you're doing so, you know, it's definitely difficult. I just going to cram it into a weekend as I can. But yeah, it's not ideal. But I usually just I don't know like a great management strategy is kind of just think I have time. Let's just quickly do something. You know, that's good to hear. I mean, I'm kind of the same way. I struggled a lot. It takes a lot of time to like I didn't and then if it doesn't upload to Youtube as takes like

Your time to figure out why and there's always hurdles that come up along the way so I'm kind of the same way like whenever I have time because I have a hard time being like Oh, so shut Sunday will be my social media content day. I can't do that. I feel like Yeah.

What was the number one hurdle you encountered during your med school Journey. So I'm talking like during med school. Honestly, it could be anytime point. It could be some point in your pre-med Journey like as little as Maybe.

Getting wreck letters was your biggest hurdle or it could be in medical school. I think, so, like I said, like once I decided I wanted to do medicine because I was past the herschel's of like, you know, personal issues academic issues that I was like, okay, I think I can do this. So like I still like Freeman was definitely difficult, but I never anticipated just how difficult med school can get is because time It is like beyond anything anyone's ever worn to us. And for me is kind of unique because I have two brothers at school. So you would think I would have gotten like some sort of experience which I mean i did in a way but every med school is so different that you know, everyone doesn't think differently so like my grandma to not mandatory attendance. So like he would come home and doing Berkeley apartment and I moved When he was setting the time, but he still dinner mandatory attendance so I can see Ellis dog for me. I had mandatory attendance. So it was like. Oh wow and it was like torture. Oh my God. Yeah. I was pretty pretty rough. That does not sound good. Yeah. No, I think they changed it now though. So like Because our school is Harry is that they're kind of like sweating like they're very flexible. And so they say doctors and many other classes and I'll for us unfortunately probably one of the hardest things I've done. I think I think that would probably be honest answer the question was one thing step one was probably the hardest thing because of the fact that like I said, like I still was going to classes up until my dedicated so it wasn't like, oh the strikes I still was exhausted my Another dedicated just sorry it was kind of like the Cozy debacle of being rescheduled all the time. That was like hell. I think if I were died at like one thing and I'm wearing a mask during staff. I know it sounds stupid Petty. The lady is dealing with like so much like your guidelines on top of something. That's so stressful already. It was probably like the things. That's so rough I actually did not know you had to wear a mask while taking like an 8 Hour exam. Yeah. It doesn't sound like it can be that bad. Exactly, very annoying especially if you like I do. I have a big nose. I need like a second mask for my nose.

My next question for you is how do you keep yourself motivated to study for high test scores when there's so much going on all the time. Like honestly like you just went through all the hurdles that you've gone through. And Steph is such an important exam. So how do you discipline yourself? I think I would rephrase that question to how do you discipline yourself?

I think telling myself. Okay. I'm going to try my hardest get in that mindset. Like I do hate schedule yourself, like really to the genius of so that discipline like I'm telling myself to these box say anything else. The bonus is always being realistic about where you're at now like if you're arguing what you want to do like make sure you're aware of so sont be pushing it off.

Thats really good advice. I see myself doing that where I'm like oh let's do the easy stuff and save the hard stuff that I don't know that well for later and you have to really like be mindful of it and force yourself to do the hard stuff first. Like I watched your YouTube video on how you studied for step and you were like, I sat down and studied EKGs for five hours because I got a question wrong and like that's the kind of setting everyone needs to do. Yeah. I think that's like a great point is almost hard to tell yourself that like I did not want to sit there and do EKGs. I'm pretty sure all my knowledge went out the window already so I'm going to have to do it all over again.

All right. So my last question for you is what is one very specific piece of advice you would leave our listeners with today. It could be related to medicine or completely unrelated but something that has made a significant positive contribution to your life.

I would think about this, but I never given already so much great advice for any like small like life advice that you live by.

You shouldn't compare yourself to anyone and also like just being grateful. There is a whole world out there that is not like related to medicine and pre-med and my academics like there's just so much more that matters and like how you treat people is so important and know what that's like 70% of medicine like in my eyes. Oh yeah. Yeah how you treat people is what stays with them in the end of the day so how you treat your patients that's what they're gonna remember. Yeah I think unfortunately I deffinetly think that um. That was amazing advice so thank you for sharing that and thank you so much for coming on today for this podcast. I'm sure our listeners are really excited to like hear more about you learn more about you. Thank you. Thank you for having me.