Academic and Personal Review

Vocabulary and key concepts extracted from the lecture transcript regarding the student's personal life, academic journey in medicine, and family background.

Degree Requirements

The medical subjects and courses the student has already finished before focusing on improving their English for graduation.

General Surgery

One of the two medical fields the student would like to specialize in, alongside neurosurgery.

Neurosurgery

A surgical specialization the student is interested in because of their fascination with the human mind.

Master Bedroom

The room in the apartment occupied by the mother because it includes a private bathroom and a closet.

Temu

The platform where the student purchased a projector to watch movies in their room.

ICFES

The exam the student took after high school, achieving a high score that resulted in earning a scholarship.

El Bosque University

The institution where the student was able to study medicine thanks to a scholarship.

Veterinary Medicine

The career the student initially told their family they wanted to study in $2018$ because they thought regular medicine was too expensive.

Two million pesos

The approximate cost per semester for studying veterinary medicine at the public university in $2018$, compared to $2.5$ million for medicine.

Internship

The hospital training period the student recently completed, which has given them more time to study medical topics and English.

Michael Jackson’s This Is It

The last movie the student watched, which provides a superficial look at the artist's life up to the year $1988$.

Sherlock Holmes

The subject of the last book the student read, involving mystery stories and the creation of hypotheses to solve cases.

Psychologist

One of the two alternative professions the student would have pursued if they had not chosen a career in medicine.

Mother's routine

A daily schedule including waking at $7:00\,am$, exercising, buying food for lunch at $12:00$, and watching YouTube at night.

Balcony

The student's favorite part of the apartment because it offers a refreshing breeze in a hot city.