Sweetie, you're doing just fine. No worries. If you need the extra time to not vlog and focus on getting your flow down, go right ahead. We'll be here when you're ready. So proud of you!!❤

I don't care if it's repetitive, I just love seeing what you're up to in residency 😊 Would love to learn more about the indications for each type of hysterectomy, like you were talking about at the end!!

Suggestions: please try to include like your day to day “lifestyle” stuff, Rachel, coz I do like to see what a residents life is like outside of just medical related things. So I really like it when you show making your coffee including what you use to make it or what up offer you order if you go out to get it; where you like to go shopping (online or in store); when you’re cleaning; workouts; what you eat in a day, even your OOTD outside of the clinic. You’re so inspirational Rachel!

Hi Rachel, I am a healthcare science teacher and I really enjoy your videos. Many of my students want to become a doctor but have no idea what it takes. Your "Day in the Live" vlogs are so insightful! Your awesome personality is also so refreshing! Your patients are very lucky to get you! Thank you for sharing your life with us.☺

Great video Rachel. Honestly, it would be great to have a sit down video where you explain how your responsibility has changed from medical school vs intern year in both the clinic/OR setting. Your vlogging consistency remains unmatched!

Thank you for sharing your life with us. You are doing such a great job balancing your life and work.

Thank you for this! Gave me motivation to stay consistent on my path even through the tough times.

Hey Rachel I love seeing your day to day life it's so motivating and not boring at all

Your doing amazing! We love these vlogs! I just recently found your page and love it! ❤

Hi Dr Rachel! I love these so much, it’s so nice to see you thriving after all the years of medical school. So proud!!

Love anything you put out. Still get so excited seeing you post new stuff. I am an OMS2 and I have been religiously rewatching your old vlogs for motivation. It really pushes me to work hard. 😊

I feel like a proud mom! Wow you're doing so amazing! 💞I feel so honored we can watch all of this and what's going on with you and behind the scenes.

We are happy to see any lenght of video, filmed from whatever device really, so no pressure.😍Because your work is just so interesting and we completely understand that it is superdifficult to film and work as a resident doctor! Soooo happy that you have kept up with us. And you are doing great, such a motivation! :)

It’s day to day for you but it’s real life Grey’s for me! I love it. Sincerely a middle school math teacher that finds it fascinating

So fun watching you in this new phase!

You’re doing amazing Dr. Southard, I enjoy watching the excitement on your face when you get to tell us about your days. I know you have some challenging days, but all in all I’d say you have more days where you are elated, compared to the “hard” days. Being a nurse I just love watching your vids. I’m also a fan of ViolinMD, y’all both just make my day when I get that notification. ❤️

I'm a clinical year PA student who works with residents often. I have so much respect for residents, and appreciate how much the residents I have been around have spent time teaching me. I'd love to see meal prep for breakfast/lunch, and then also what kinds of quick meals you make when you get home. I'm so tired after 12 hour shifts that I don't want to take the time to make a nutritious meal, so I'd love to see more of what you do.

Awwww thank you so much for all of these vlogs you've been doing for us!!!! I especially loved hearing about the compliment feedback the physician gave to you, that was so sweetttt!!!!! I also found the birth simulation clip so interesting!!!! Thank you for still keeping up with us even with SUCH a busy schedule!!!! I'm so thankful we get to see you during your journey!!!! 💞💞💞💗💗💗

Dr. Rachel...you are awesome in so many ways...You are dedicating your life to helping others and sharing your journey... You will do just fine :)

Hello Rachel. My name is Aida. I'm 29 years old. I'm an M.D. from Iran. I've been following your videos since about a week ago and I just can not stop watching your videos, and your journey. I'm looking for a research position in the U.S and I'm planning to attend the pathology residency program in USA. I'm so excited about all of it and watching your videos just gives me hope and all the positive energy and good feeling that I need to go on. I'm so happy that I've got to know you. You'll be one of the best Gynecologists of all. I hope to see you one day in person when I'm in USA. Best of luck my dear.💓

I love your vlogs so much! I would love to hear more about your schedule (the times/hours you work). I'm an incoming med student so I like hearing about what the resident schedules are like.

❤ thank you for sharing!!! I love it when you share some of your training, it's soo cool! I would aspire to be a medical professional, but I lack the discipline with school.

Rachel - so awesome to watch you in this first year of residency so far. I’m a first year DO student and I’m really interested in OBGYN so these vlogs have been great insight to the day-to-day❤

My favorite blog keep it up girl, you are going places.

Don't feel pressure to vlog! I honestly love watching anything you post. I have been binge watching your videos when I'm not studying and it's so relaxing but also motivating.

Another amazing vlog to enjoy! Thank you for sharing your experience and new life routine. You're so talented, keep going 💪💪 I'm medical student on my 6th year in Ukraine and you as always inspire me to work and work and work on my studying even if it's hard sometimes. Love u 💕

Will watch your videos, regardless of what they are about or if they are all over the place or whatever it is. You always post interesting content, that’s why I come back! Enjoying following along on your journey!

Very interesting to see the vacuum assisted delivery! Commenting for the algorithm. Thanks for continuing to put out awesome content!!

Amazing vlog🤍 Thank you for showing the vacuum procedure on a sim, fascinating!

I am so glad you’re still putting together vlogs about your day during residency! I’m an M4 now and have been following you throughout med school, so you feel like a big sister to me showing what lies ahead. I am already so nervous about residency next year, so seeing what it’s like from a familiar source is super comforting 🤍 you’re doing incredible, Dr. Southard!!!

Good morning Rachel happy Sunday morning and I loved your vlogs and you are amazing Supporter and I'm proud of you

thank you for showing us what you can

I am in nursing school but your videos motivate and inspire me to be the best medical professional possible. Even when it gets hard, keep pushing because you show others how to do just that :) Cheering you on all the way from the east coast, and I can't wait for more videos of all the adventures and stories you are going to share.

hi rachel! i started watching your videos a few months ago and you’ve inspired me so much as a person who is looking to go into the medical field in the future. your dedication and love for your future and career doesn’t go unnoticed and never fails to inspire me to push myself. i know you’ve been saying residency has been an adjustment but it is evident you are handling it with grace even if it doesn’t feel that way now. thank you for all you do and represent! i saw your story that you’re on a 24hr shift and i hope it goes/ went well!

Proud of you Doctora Southard!!!!!

Keep up the hardwork Dr.Southard!

I love your vlogs so much! I feel like you make the best residents vlogs right now. I love how you explain what you are learning, how you show the BTS (preparing for case, preparing for clinics etc). In the end I don't feel like it's that important to see you in the hospital. As a future/aspiring OBGYN it's so so helpful to see how you prepare and get to learn stuff as I watch you do them :) 90% of your life is work right now and that's ok. Better that than featuring 0 work and thus not showing the reality of your current life/situation. Good luck Dr S!

Great job ! You will do well because of your attitude - once the knowledge base is sound, the biggest hurdle is the workload, sleep deprivation and the hit it can all take on a life outside work- that’s where a good attitude and ability to laugh and smile come into play! Don’t lose that ! I know you’re not revealing much (don’t blame you ) are u in CA? No worries if you stay silent on that- I had to do the same years ago 💝👏🏼👏🏼

The coding! As a medical coder myself, please be patient with the coders! The best advice I can give you is to take the time to listen to them. Our goal is to help teach and educate so you have to hear from us less! ❤️ Love watching you go on this journey!

Rachel, just do what you can do! We all understand that you just started residency and residency is hard! BTW, had an abdominal hysterectomy due to side effects from breast cancer almost 5 years ago now. Loved my OB/GYN.

Love u..u r awesome❤love watching everything u put in

Hello ! Thank you for this vlog, I'm loving getting to you all about your day to day as a resident 😊 Do you think you could do a video about your personal statement for residency like you did for your medical school one in your 'why medicine" video ? If it's too much or if you'd like to keep it private, that's totally fine and I apologise in advance 😅

I work full-time as a scribe in an ER and most of the time I can't even remember to text someone back. Vlogging in residency can't be easy! Also, computers...we have a love/hate relationship. I routinely spend all 10 hours of my shift charting. On average, I do 30-35 charts a shift🙃

Rachel don’t feel pressured to vlog! We don’t expect anything from you, we know you’re working hard. It’s inspiring.

love ya! binging you rn

I always love you’re videos Rachel but I also agree with the rest of these comments that you’re overall health matters most! So if you need to take time away to decompress and relax, that is SO okay ❤. P.S that yellow color of your shirt towards the end looks so good on you!! ❤

Hi Rachel, thank you for the video.

Appreciate the descriptions ❤️ I have low vision and descriptive audio helps a lot ❤️

I’d love to hear your thoughts on what it’s like balancing intern year with your personal life, still seeing family and friends etc.

It’s so interesting to watch how the vacuum works on the babies head ! Both my babies were stuck pretty good in my pelvis and both needed the vacuum during my c sections

I really enjoy detail. A few videos back you demonstrated and discussed positioning the baby during delivery. That was so interesting; please if you have time share those details I love learning.

I love seeing your day-to-day videos. Also, how cool was it seeing you delivery the (fake) baby with the vacuum?!! You were amazing! Thanks for sharing! 👏🥰

As a scribe, precharting is life and dot phrases are life savers. Make as many dot phrases as possible. ✨

Greetings from Romania! I’m also a ob-gyn resident. Love seeing how’s other residents life în other countries❤

Hii I’ve been watching your videos for so long! I just started med school last week and also want to do OBGYN but more MFM. Since you mentioned you’re confident with patient encounters could you do a video talking about how to master this skill or even do a mock one to show?

Just seeing the C4 energy drinks gives me tachycardia lol but take all the time you need, don’t feel bad about “repetitive vlogs” we love all your videos . Can you make a video of your favorite skill you’ve mastered and maybe one your looking forward to performing 🤭 much love 💙💙💙

Thank you for sharing this! Your videos give me motivation to stay consistent on my path towards my goals even through the tough times. 🩷🩷

I’m always interested in what you’re learning along the way…

Oh Rachel I love you so muuuuuch 🥲❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

The slow mo clips killed me 😂 Rachel delivers… in every sense 😁

Wish you the best of luck ❤

Omg I remember you talking about Fern-ing and that picture you took of it AGES ago!

Nicely presented week.

Emergency and ICU vet tech turning into L and D RN within the next two years. I would love to see break downs of labor complications, uncommon postpartum complications, and then some repro fertility stuff.... you are doing great.... Keep up the good work, and don't forget to breathe :). procedure breakdowns would also be cool ( I am a surgery nut here in the vet world, specifically emergency surgeries like Gastric Dilation and Volvus (stomach torsion most commonly seen in deep chested dogs like German shepherds and Great danes) )

Would love an in depth chat about how you went about picking residency programs to apply to!

I love it when Dr Miya Hero places small easter egg scientific medical terminology like Ferning😊😊😊

Girl every time you say you look bad you actually look so beautiful!

I would love to hear you talk a bit more about the imbalance of charting v. Face time w patients !

I loved video 🌸

Endometriosis is always a good topic. I had a total abdominal hysterectomy (uterus n cervix) 2 years later right ovary and maybe in a month or so my left along with bowel endo removed.

WHEN JUST THE HEAD GETS OUT HAHAHA

Could you do a morning routine getting to work? Or how you prep the evening before?

Great video! If you’re looking for vlog ideas, a vlog discussing endometriosis would be fantastic.

I would love to know more about all the different types of hysterectomies and why certain patients may choose different methods to complete this procedure over others?? I’m sooo curious about it and would love your take on it too :)

Documentation is more for making sure you accurately document what is going on with the patient. So if you are taking care of a patient who is a high risk OB patient it will help you later in. I track physician documentation. It takes time to get in to a groove with documentation. Pre-charting helps.

Hi Rachel, I would love to hear more about the conditions you are seeing in the patients like, why are they getting a hysterectomy, is their pregnancy going well or not well and why. Not sure if you can speak about this however due to patient privacy but we don't need names just examples are what you are seeing. Thanks

Girl you always look so beautiful! Never a hot mess, not once 😌😚

In the building watching from Baltimore MD 😎😎😎

Two Questions: What's it like to get a paycheck after a while? Do you feel medical school prepared you for residency?

I am a premed with a few trainings in laboratories. And you don't want to know how many notes I voluntarily filled out at the blood bag unit I was training at. I went in there and saw a huge pile of over 300papers. I asked them what is that crap over there in the lab. They told me it is the vital signs notes before and after different forms of blood transfusions, and if you could help us fill it out that would be great. So, I did. The notes took me like 4h to fill all out. When I came back the next day, I saw a stack of 100 out of thin air. I admit I regret voluntarily helping out with note taking as that didn't really improve my learning, just really was boring, and probably decreased my grade since I spent less time questioning what's going on, and got a worse oral exam result than I should have. Sometimes being nice really isn't nice for you. 😢, but at least the workers are grateful that I stepped in to help. And screw the grades as long as I felt like I was doing something that was helpful over all.

Hey! Just found your channel, and I am really enjoying it. What would be the reasons for the different types of hysterectomies?

I have a son and DIL who just started year 2. I’m not sure how you vlog at all- all they do is work!

Content ideas: 1. Does the newborn become your second patient and how does a doctor balance that in the delivery room. p

Perimenopause, menopause, post menopause .. Do's, don't, what exactly happens.

Hiya Dr. Southard! Even though I delivered my babies in 2002 and 2004, my mild obsession with pregnancy continues. Did I buy Williams Obstetrics and read while pregnant? Of course. All that means is that I have many questions. How do you feel/tell the baby's position (externally) in the last weeks? How do you learn to do that--seems tough? Can you talk about how you learn to strip the membranes (I had this done and, wow, did it hurt!)? How do you estimate the baby's weight near the end of pregnancy (this estimate is what led to the aforementioned membrane stripping)? On the OB side, can you share how you decide which speculum tip to use for an exam? My daughter just had her first gyn exam a few weeks ago and they showed her the whole selection (she's pre-med, so she was thrilled with the equipment review). I wasn't aware there were different ones, so that would be interesting to know. I'll keep thinking about other questions but I, personally, would love to know more about how you learn to do the stuff you can't just read in a book. Loved the video of learning how to use the vacuum assist--and the head-only practice delivery! Hugs to you, sweet doctor superwoman.

Bombastic side eye

rachel i would rlly like to know how much it hurts in labor and about its complications

Also would be interesting to see that relationships in medicine video you said you never made live 🙈

As a scribe who does over 250 notes a week I understand the struggle of charting 😭😭

I am planning on Vlog my professional live violin audition. whew...

Can you make a video on how to study for big exams after coming back from exhausting 8 or 9 hours long shifts every day 😭

Are your glasses blue-light? Get some refresh eye drops and use them when you’re in front of the computer for long hours!! Also have you tried laser focus gummies?

hi rachel!! ive been following since you started medical school :) i used to be premed but ended up switching to nursing, and now im in nursing school! I was just wondering if you ever get frustrated with being on the computer for so long vs actually seeing and building rapport with patients?

What shoes do you use for work?

"Regression is my favourite coping mechanism. haha jk" - Rachel

Can you do a video that breaks down common myths surrounding women’s health?

I’m confused why hospitals don’t have ways of automating note-taking? Eg using voice recognition or scanning patient docs. Is it a confidentiality issue to use AI to take care of your busywork?

Do you want to eventually open your own practice?

❤❤😊🎉

what are your thoughts on Open Notes in L&D?