Ahhhh, time sure does fly when you're having fun. See u soon, OBGYN :'-)

I just saw a TikTok of a girl that works in L&D and she started a jar and for every baby she helped bring into the world she put a bead, blue for boys, pink for girls, and white for babies born sleeping. I think you should start a jar so you can look back at all the babies you have helped!!!

Rachel I got into medical school!!! I’ve been watching your videos from the very beginning and they helped me through so much of the emotional roller coasters of being a pre med and applying/waiting and all that jazz. Im even more excited to follow you in your journey as an aspiring OBGYN because that is where my heart lies as well. I just wanted to give you the good news and let you know that you made a difference in my life❤️

I LOVE seeing your enthusiasm for your specialty. I'm a pre-med, gonna be a psychiatrist and I love seeing ppl excited about their lives, doing what they've always wanted to do its great!

OBGYN is staying with you forever!!! You are so passionate about it....So inspiring to see someone working with so much happiness and dedication...!!! Waiting for this premiere!!

Loved your last lil segment on inclusivity. As a queer person with vaginal/uterus/pelvic dysfunction it’s so frustrating to have everything compared to the heteronormative woman’s experience. I’m gay so there’s no chance I’m pregnant but the number of times I’ve had to really spell it out for doctors really amazes me in 2022. Glad to see the next gen of practitioners are embracing intersectionality 🏳️‍🌈

What done already?? 😭I loved this rotation for you! I know how much you loved it, hopefully you are pleasantly surprised by the next rotation 🥲 July can’t come soon enough 💜

I say sexual&reproductive, or gynecological health! When working with gender hormone therapy, we refer to that as gender affirming care. Working at Planned Parenthood (where we have many diverse pts of all gender identities), these are all pretty standard terms to use (and the ones we were trained to use upon hiring ). Hope that helps!

I love how much you think about the feelings and perspectives of others when you talked about the best, most inclusive terminology for OB/GYN. I have met OB/GYNs who seem to treat women as human incubators and prioritize their ability to carry a fetus above who they are as a human being, and I love that you do not think that way at all. You will be a great OB/GYN!

I'm struggling in undergrad right now but seeing how productive you are just really helps me get motivated and to make the time I need for myself and that I deserve it and to not just study, study, study and to get over my guilt for not studying when I should

Hi Rachel! I recently got my mcat score back after being a retaker and I'm so happy to finally apply for med school this year. Considering family medicine. Been working a lot on the ambulance and as a telemonitor technician. Thank you for your weekly videos. Take time for yourself ❤ only advice I have is to work out in the morning if you can. I notice that you seem stressed out about not going to the gym and it being too late. I find that getting the workout done early truly makes the day a whole lot better and I can get more done. I'm up at the gym as early as 5am sometimes and it honestly feels awesome but going to bed early is essential. Keep up the hard work girl!!

Thanks for sharing „random“ medical knowledge e.g. showing how you guide the baby out on your stuffed animal. Very very much appreciated!

“I’m just talking with my mouth open” 😂 hahaha so funny! We knew what you meant! Love your passion for the obgyn field! 💗

I LOVE that you’re talking about inclusive language in OB/GYN!! It’s an area that can be particularly alienating for non-binary and trans folks, and knowing that you’re thinking about this as you go into this field is so reassuring for the future. Love all your hard work, dedication, and excitement that you share with us!

lmao I chuckled when you said "The mouth and the eyes is not for meee" xD

ik this video is like over a month old, im behind on youtube, but idc. my life has been crzay recently and ive been going through a lot and i also havent watched your videos in a while, so today i decided to catch up on your content and everytime i do, im reminded how much i admire you and how much comfort you and your videos bring me. i want to go into the medical field hen i graduate and i really really admire your drive, your passion, the way your eyes light up when you talk abt medicine, especially ob gyn, and when you give random med facts and explain stuff. i really really hope that some day, when i choose my specialty, i have that same drive towards it. i dont think you know how much i (and i know so many more feel the same way) admire and appreciate how real you are. i feel like a lot of people, content creators, tend to only show the good in their lifes. but thats not the case with you, you show us both sides, you talk abt mental health, youre helping break the stigma, you let us know we're not alone... and of course, we know you dont show us everything, but what you do show is worth a lot. so yeah, i just wanted to say thank you, thank you for being someone i can admire and look up to and make my days better and thank you for giving me a reaosn to stay.

No matter What you end up doing or Where you end up going....Your Fans just want to come along with you and keep you company in ALL TIMES! We miss you when you need Me Time and We Dig it when you need US Time! Most Importantly Rachel...Keep Smiling And Keep Strutting and in the end All of our collective Pieces will form The Puzzle that we All Love to call The Southard Universe! Cheers From Ohio

I am currently studying organic chem and anatomy.. It has been stressful but I am doing my best. These vlogs are the highlight of my week! ❤️

I started a new job! I'm a tech in a level one trauma center and I am LOVING it. My love for emergency medicine has been reignited and I could not be happier. Now the hard part is figuring out what to do next lol

“I’m not lazy… I’m just lazy…” SO RELATABLE

Loved what you were saying at the end of the clip!! I’m a 3rd yr nursing/midwifery student and I just did a paper on PTSD surrounding childbirth. I made it super inclusive as I agree, not everyone who births identifies as female and the narrative surrounding these issues in healthcare needs to change! Excited to see how you tackle it because inclusiveness is a huge passion of mine too xx

It has been a rough week but today was exceptionaly good! Oh and when you talked about listening to your body I literally paused the vlog to get some tea, so thank you for the reminder ahah big hug

Hi Rachel! I’m starting M3 with OB this month and your OB videos have made me SO excited for my first rotation!!! I love how you brought up inclusive language at the end. I think it depends on what we’re talking about and whom we’re talking to! “Reproductive health” can work if it’s relevant to pregnancy, “family planning” if you want to include abortion in the pregnancy umbrella, “sexual health” if you’re talking about anything sex-related, or even just the words “obstetrics” & “gynecology” if you have a more scientific audience! The “-ologies” and body parts themselves aren’t inherently gendered so sometimes it works to just say what you’re actually referring to (“people with vaginas”). I’ve heard OBs use “pregnant people,” “gestational parent,” “carrying parent,” and “people who can get pregnant” all in different contexts when relevant to include everyone with uteruses. I think Mama Dr. Jones has made some videos about inclusive OB language!

The tricky baby delivery story and delivering Winnie was so great! You can definitely tell you know what you're doing! Loved it!

Could you do a video or insta post on prepping for M3 year? Anything you wish you did differently before starting rotations? Also would LOVE some advice on comfy clothes/scrubs/shoes to purchase for clinicals!

Hi Rachel! Glad to see you're doing well! Thanks for sharing🌠

Love your videos rachel you are sooo pretty and you are sooo inspiring, keep it up and stay positive!!!

watching this while I'm in my OB rotation has made me so happy!!! i am really enjoying my OB rotation right now and seeing you so excited to work in this field and your clinic experience makes me enjoy it even more!

I had a full day of clinical skills and OMM, and I’m studying for my anatomy quiz tomorrow!! I’m a first year osteopathic medical student, and I watched your videos all through applying to school, and your videos throughout your clinical rotations have been really getting me through the trenches of first year. It reminds me that there’s exciting things to come! I love how much you love OB-GYN!

girl i love you so muchh!! ur my literal inspirationn please keep doing what ur doing

Your passion and excitement for OBGYN is everything. So happy for you ❤️

Another great video! Thank you Rachel 💕

You're my hero Rachel you are amazing.

I'm doing great Rachel!!

I LOVE how to talk bout OB/GYN!! Your excitement about what you want to do just motivates me to work harder to get into medical school so I can study Pathology!! You're so inspiring

you're an amazing person Rachel... it's inspiring

I am happy to see things r going well for u keep up the good work

So true what you said about listening to your body for your mental health! ❤️

I love how you're taking everyone into consideration and working to be inclusive in your language. After thinking about it, I would probably suggest just saying "obstetric and gynecological health". It doesn't assume gender, reproductive status or ability, and is straight to the point. If you are a person who requires obstetric or gynecological services, you fall under that umbrella. Nice and inclusive. I'm interested to hear what you end up going with; it's a topic I haven't given as much thought to as I probably should. As always, great video! Can't wait to see what you're up to in next week's vlog!

omg I'm glued to my screen and I see now it premieres tomorrow 😅💯...what can I say I love your channel

watching this while taking a break studying for my orgo exam! :) love your videos, rachel!

I just started working in a hospital, moving down to the ER soon. Your videos inspire me to keep my motivation in pursuing medicine. (I'm in paramedic school, and I'm planning on going to med school and into emergency medicine later in life). I love you and your videos Rachel! Hang in there girl, you're incredible! ♡

I don't know why I get this positive vibe just after watching Rachel ❤️love uuu

An abosolte delight to watch you early morning :) and get productive

I am in the NICU right now for my rotations and I love to go to deliveries!! Have a great semester!

We going amazing Rachel!!!

I am at a crucial point in my program where I need to propose my dissertation in the next month so that I can apply for internship at the end of the year and be one step closer to finishing my PhD. There are a lot of days of stress and worry about if I can get it done, but watching your vlogs helps me feel rejuvenated for another week so that I can keep living my dreams and making them reality!

This week has been so stressful for me but fun at the same time? I don’t know how to explain it… I’m just patiently waiting to get through my last exam on Wednesday to get some rest and until then I’m doing my best. I love the fact that you include casual questions about our daily lives in your videos :) also the question about being more inclusive when talking about obgyn or medical terms in general is so valid, I’d love to hear what you or others have to say about the words we could use

i celebrated holi today! we threw around colors and danced to music. a great break from college work!

Having a rough day:/ but your vlog made me smile!! ❤️

Having a roller coaster of a day but your vlogs always make me feel better!!! Even though I’m from NZ which has only 2 medical schools within the entire country and the way our system works towards becoming a MD is a bit different, I love watching your videos and getting excited for what the possible future may include 🥰 watching your passion of OBGYN makes me tear up a little, as it’s great to see someone just enjoy something to the fullest. I… actually failed my last year of high school because of mental health related and (at the time) undiagnosed ADHD related problems. It’s only when my mum encouraged me to take a health science course after hs that I realised I truly wanted to go to medical school, but I never thought I’d be capable enough to. I got my first test result back and I got a mark of 100%!!! So I am extremely happy with that, but also extremely scared that despite this course being a course you take to get into uni that when the University sees my application for pre-med that they’ll just see my last year high school results and I won’t get in. But I will keep on trying! I hope you have a wonderful day - you deserve it! :)

Hiked up and back and now at 8.7 miles. Watching your video as part of my recovery.

hey rachel! my day is going pretty great! currently studying for my DAT. I loved the bit of you talking about flossing lol the future dentist in me was laughing so loud!!!

Love your videos so much! I always use them as a break from studying because you're life is my dream! You always keep me motivated but you're also so genuine that it reminds me it's totally normal to have those weird days. Sometimes there just isn't enough time in the day to take care of yourself and your to do list and that's okay too! Thank you for being so amazing! Time to get back to studying for my MCAT!

Hey Rachel, I love watching your videos, they always make my day and give me motivation to work hard to hopefully become a doctor in the future. Right now, I'm studying for the Abitur (kind of like the German A-levels??), which will decide if I get into medical school. Seeing you getting exited about OB-GYN reminds me of my feelings while doing an "internship" at a hospital in the OR, which then confirmed my idea of wanting to become a doctor. Thank you for brightening up my day and being so open about everything :)

Excited as always for the new video! but LONG LIVE RAFIKI !! :)

I am good. I gave myself the last week off from studying because of burnout. I am better now. Thank you you for being honest and real in your videos ❤️

Watching your nighttime self care routine was so relaxing 😂

in my program we use terms like 'pregnant people' 'mestruating people', 'people with uteruses', 'birthing persons' and terms like this! It felt awkward changing language at first but now it comes naturally to me and it is so important! We always use the term 'catch' babies instead of 'deliver' since that is more empowering to the birthing individual who did all the work!

Love your video. I am not in medicine but your lifestyle and attitude is a good example to follow

Mama Doctor Jones Uses inclusive language such as "an individual with a uterus" She has a whole video on her channel somewhere that discusses inclusive language within OB/GYN. I think it's one of her more recent collabs

Currently about to enter dedicated and I’m so scared! I had a similar experience as you and was hooked on obgyn when we first learned about it in MS1. I’m so happy to see you fully explore and love the field as much as you hoped you would, I just want to get thru step1 so I can have experience that joy as well!! Thank you for all your vids they make my day!!

I’m so inspired by your journey! I’m also really interested in OBGYN and improving maternal health for underrepresented groups but I first gotta get through my MCAT. Retaking the MCAT . I’m inspired by you to not give up

"I am not that lazy it just that I am lazy" 😂😂😂loved the vlog❤️

seeing this made me so happy

Seeing you opening those Nespresso pods gave me happiness. ☕️❤️

Wow! AWESOME!

Always look forward to watching your videos ☺️ its so great to see you excited about OBGYN! I recently started a student job doing telephone triage for GP-services in the evenings, nights and weekends. Just completed my last training session yesterday and am going to do my first solo session today. I'm honestly pretty nervous, like there's auch a wide array of patient presentations

Happy to see that you're happy! I'm a year behind you in medical school, so it's fun to see a flash forward into my future. During your STEP studying I was like, "that seems rough" and now going through I can confirm it is haha. Not related to the video, but I was wondering how you think about the daily time commitment it takes to become a doctor. It is definitely a sacrifice, and something I've been thinking about a lot lately. I'd love to hear your thoughts!

I’m on my premed journey (nursing)and i CANNOT WAIT for medschool!!! and residency!! and all of what you’re doing☠️😭❤️ thank you for this video✨ i’m currently studying pediatrics and ob-gyne and it’s amazing how i get what you’re saying🤍

“wakey rachey” HA

Hey Rachel ! I'm currently a weeks away from my high school exam. Hopefully I will graduate and start medecine in September! I just wanted to thank you, you're weekly vlogs are so motivating ! Take care off yourself ! Greetings from Switzerland! Byyyeeee

Hello:) I’ve been working on my PA school application which is stressful. But I’m excited for this upcoming week I start training for my EMT certification.

Rachel, lol I have caught myself lately when either working out or studying for my MA classes, I get overwhelmed or feel like the exercise are gonna kill me . I starting chanting " it's fine, it's fine". Lol You could say " for any that require the care of a obgyn. That is pretty inclusive

Always love your videos! But to answer your question, I remember talking about this in my maternal and child’s health class. A lot of our language was addressing the current anatomy that a person has. So…“people assigned female” or even saying “person who has a cervix”. “Well-woman exams” would be “sexual health screening” or “cervical screening.” And even saying, pregnant person instead of pregnant woman. Language is important- im glad you’re paying attn to it :) wish you the best!

Ahh Rachel! You make me more and more excited about OBGYN and I cannot wait for third year rotations. I’m shadowing some OBGYNs this summer so who knows what I end up learning/doing!!! On the note of inclusivity, I’m pretty sure gynecological health is the way to go. But you definitely can’t go wrong with using a variety of terms! You’ve got this!

I just finished a paper for nursing school that I was dreading for so long and Im so happy its done but its time to study for finals now😭😭hahah love you rachel!!❤️

Great vlog! We are absolutely in a transition of how we talk about OB/gyn. More inclusive language could include things like birthing people/person, talking about systems like calling it gynecology and obstetrics instead of women's health. I'm so glad that we are thinking about how we can make sure our patients (or, for me, future patients) can feel most comfortable with our language. Mama doctor jones and Dr. Jennifer Lincoln have some good Tik toks on the subject, but I don't know if they have whole videos on the topic.

I'm on 13 but u have inspired me to look into the field of obgyn, and I now want to be one because of you. can't wait for u to actually become a doctor! thank u so much for inspiring me 💕

Would love like an update on how med school works the year your on!

in the building waiting from barbados 😎😎😎😎 ready to shed tears together 😅😅😅

I’m not familiar with this kind of terminology but maybe "gynecologic health" would be more inclusive? Love your videos!!❤️

I’ve been watching a lot of matches from medical school. Can hardly wait to see yours next year. Keep up the great work. Interesting question at the end…you’re right with changes in gender identification. What was traditional is no longer just women’s health. I get your dilemma but have no suggestion to offer. Do let us know what you choose.

I've packed one of your hoodies in my suitcase for my first trip to the US in 8 years.

Hi Rachel! Im finishing up undergrad and set to graduate in May! Im a chemistry major on the pre-dental track and love watching your video. Im watching your videos as I clean my messy room bc im procrastinating writing my pchem lab report 😵‍💫😵‍💫

Hey Rachel! I'm on my ObGyn rotation in New Zealand at the moment, we get formal teaching about inclusive language which I think is really important. The Doctors and Midwives that take it say things like "pregnant person", "parenthood", "anyone with a cervix" during their talks. I think it's easy to copy what we hear often, practice is the best way I've found to incorporate inclusive language. There are a few papers with specific examples, but if I can't think of one in the moment I'll revert to direct "you" language ie. "you might experience cramping, it's quite common" over "most women experience cramping."

I also had planes going to ice-skating ( today was the last day of opening so yeah I've to wait until November 🤭) or gym but pharmacology today wines the battle. The third year MD is not easy omg I'm starting surgery rotation soon. Your attitude and vlogs help me survive my studies 🥰 so many times it was so hard and thanks to you and my mom 🥰I'm still studying 📖 . Greetings form POLAND 🇵🇱 ❤ GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR NEXT ROTATIONS 🤞 BTW you are my first medical/vlog channel that I've subscribed 😆🥰

Been good. Planning on doing Prerequisite classes in the Fall possibly. My goal is to someday get my MS in Genetics Counseling so I can work with families that are going through Genetics Issues. I have an AMAZING doctor that encouraged me. She also told me about it in October when I had an Appointment with her. I have to take Chem, BIochem, and Genetics.

You're amazing!!! Absolutely my inspiration ❤️ Love from 🇮🇹 P.s.: I'm not a physician yet, but what I can tell you is never neglect your health! I'm talking about your breath: please have it checked out if you haven't already ❤️

I’m a DPT student & we call it pelvic health (:

Rachel these videos are gold. So many negative videos out on KZfaq about medical school and residency and after. It’s important that people see your enthusiasm and love for medicine. Physicians deserve to be treated with respect and be well compensated but you also are a good example of WHY medicine is the best profession. It’s the blessing and privilege to take care the sick and vulnerable. Your videos are a service to those who are in or considering medicine. I’ve been an attending for over 20 years and your videos are refreshing to me as well. I really hope that you work at a teaching hospital and get to teach residents and medical students. Things will get difficult at times. You will have patients and babies die. You will have failures. You may even be sued. But keep carrying on and let it not stop you. Maintain your humanity and love for medicine. Best of luck to you.

YAY INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE IS SO IMPORTANT!

When I tell you I was cackling during your hiccups🤣🤣 love the video🤍

Hi rachel :) I’ve spent my gap year working in labor & delivery as a newborn hearing screener & I’m starting medical school this fall! I just wanted you to know that almost everyday at work I think “…do I wanna be an OB/GYN??? Or do I just wanna be Rachel Southard” 🤔 Hahahaha love your videos!

Hi Rachel!! Thanks for another awesome video as always!! I was just wondering what is that thing that you are using to wash your face, it has a blue triangular end and white handle??

Awww

Can you tell us what you ask for when you go get your hair done 🥺🥺😍

The tea is step study and I'm dying.

as a female presenting nonbinary person thats premed, idk it made me tear up hearing someone thinking about language and what that affect can have on inclusivity! in my day to day life, Ill say people with vaginas or people with a penis, but I know that isnt the most professional sounding phrase. I wish more folks thought about this, and id be so interested to know what language people use in OBGYN to be more inclusive.

I’m a PT and we just refer to it as pelvic health…I know it’s not the same thing as OB/GYN but maybe it could work ….? Everyone seeking your services has a pelvis so it’s very inclusive that way 🤗