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Yale Doctor Makes $5 Million Annually Through YouTube and Gives 5 Tips
eMaxHealth ^ | Feb. 19, 2018 | Lena Kirakosyan

Posted on 02/19/2018 8:01:40 PM PST by Armen Hareyan

For more than a decade, YouTube has been one of the most popular social networks. However, besides being used for entertainment, there are people who create YouTube videos to make a living. Many Youtubers now call YouTube their main career and can make money off of it, just as one would at a regular job. Dr. Dustyn Williams of OnlineMedED is an example of someone who now makes millions off of making YouTube videos, and has an inspiring story to go along with it.

Dr. Williams received his undergraduate degree at Yale University and then went to medical school at Tulane.

However, regarding medical school, “I found it frustrating. As a medical student, there’s only so much time available with full-time clinic duties on top of learning, eating, etc., yet the school didn’t respect that. Instead, they attempted to teach me everything about everything, which was so much more than I really needed to know as a medical student. If I’m not specializing in obgyn, don’t give me a fellowship expert-level lecture.

It’s an easy concept, but hard to accept in real life.” Therefore, he began to make free YouTube videos, because he believed that there had to be a better way to get across all the information needed to graduate from medical school. The goal was to create better doctors, and surely he did; the YouTube channel has over 36,000 subscribers, and the website now has over 100,000 users from 191 countries.

Dr. Williams also has advice for those who would like to do something similar, and teach people online and gives thes 5 tips. The first is...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; clickbait; doctor; dustynwilliams; onlinemeded; youtube; youtuber; youtubetips; youtubevideos; zot
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These days many people make real money on Youtube. Have you made any youtube videos that have been watched by many people?
1 posted on 02/19/2018 8:01:40 PM PST by Armen Hareyan
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To: Armen Hareyan

I haven’t made a single video.


2 posted on 02/19/2018 8:10:35 PM PST by wastedyears (Americans are dreamers too.)
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To: Armen Hareyan

I gave a 5 dollar tip at Denny’s a couple of weeks ago because she gave me free stuff with my meal. I was dressed in a suit which probably gave the impression I had money, when that is not true.


3 posted on 02/19/2018 8:17:04 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Armen Hareyan

Oh, millionaire gives 5 TIPS, not 5 dollar tip. Nevermind.


4 posted on 02/19/2018 8:18:17 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Armen Hareyan

I’m up to 59,000 views with this one. I hadn’t checked for awhile. (Yes, I am a nut).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsAh4R5v4KA


5 posted on 02/19/2018 8:18:21 PM PST by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: Armen Hareyan
This should have been the future, 10 years ago.

No one has the time and money to sit in some lecture hall being lectured by some leftist pig.

Kids can easily get their high school diploma online. If they need physical activity, they can join a YMCA. Why does our education system completely sucks?

6 posted on 02/19/2018 8:20:57 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (If the illegal immigration issue were Social Security, it'd be privatized by now.)
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To: bramps

Wow...looks like early retirement is in the cards for you!


7 posted on 02/19/2018 8:23:20 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Armen Hareyan

I know someone that did this full time. I haven’t heard from him in a long time but I think he was up to $200.000/yr.


8 posted on 02/19/2018 8:27:34 PM PST by BipolarBob (At one time I held the world record as the worlds youngest person on the planet.)
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To: Armen Hareyan

Um, a Yale undergrad who gets his MD at Tulane and works at Tulane is not a “Yale Doctor”


9 posted on 02/19/2018 8:28:21 PM PST by montag813
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To: Armen Hareyan

How much do you make pimping your blog?

Here is the rest. You didn’t create the content anyway.

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1. Don’t just do it, do it right. The magic of an online video is that you have to do it well once. Because once you do it well, and put it online, it scales infinitely. It doesn’t have to be perfect (I get facts wrong, have brain farts, and the cuts in my editing are obvious) but it should be close to your best. To make it your best, see the next set.

2. Edit. Online teaching started with lecturers posting their live lectures for other to see. That’s great. Sharing is caring. But if the goal is to teach online, change your teaching practice to match. It takes me about 4 hours to plan the lecture on paper, practice at the board, record the video, then edit. It might be only a 20 minute video, but those 4 hours pay off huge.

3. Plan. I use a whiteboard because that’s the way I was trained to teach. But doing it that way forces you to think about what needs to be on the board. Powerpoints are for board meetings, not lectures. They allow you to put an infinite number of slides with an infinite number of words that doesn’t focus the learner. Remember that college course with 158 slides by 45 minutes? I plan on an 8.5x11 piece of paper. I move at a pace a learner can follow – they can take notes with me. And I only put on the board what is necessary to remember or to explain abstract concepts. If the whiteboard isn’t for you, then I suggest using a single powerpoint slide. No erasing, no changing, no flipping, simply add pieces of the slide as you progress.

4. Be visible. There’s pretty good research out there that shows that having a human visible increases memory and retention. Even if it’s just a hand doing one of those speed-motion videos, an 8.5 x 11 inch paper and a pen, or you at the board, being visible increases engagement (people pay attention), enhances retention, and makes the learner feel like you are teaching them.

5. Practice. OnlineMedEd is in its third iteration. I joke that there was a fire at google that housed the first videos’ cache. They were SO BAD my girlfriend, who was filming, fell asleep. The more you do it the better you get. It is nothing like being in front of an audience, using the students to move forward, drawing on their energy.”

On the website, it states that their mission is to “change how medical education is approached, how medical schools deliver it and how students learn it. We want you spending time using what you’ve learned to practice actual medicine. That’s done by making learning easier, faster and more reliable. Learn everything you need and nothing you don’t. And make it stick.”

If you are a medical student, maybe Dr. Williams’ videos and website can help you! Tell us please, if you also use YouTube for making money, especially if you are in a medical field. Please, write your comments in the commenting section below for discussion.

Disclosure: While Dr. William’s PR company Jill Schmidt PR is one of eMaxHealth’s occasional sponsors, the reporter had complete editorial freedom covering this story.

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10 posted on 02/19/2018 8:30:35 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
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To: bramps

Are you able to retire off that?


11 posted on 02/19/2018 8:33:31 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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To: Armen Hareyan

Humble gunner, please call home.


12 posted on 02/19/2018 8:46:30 PM PST by Fungi
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Some of the gun vloggers on Youtube have over a million subscribers and close to a billion overall views.

I guess some of them were making pretty good money, until Youtube (google) started ‘demonitizing’ videos that were gun (or any sort of conservative viewpoint.)

But if you take a bath in milk and fruitloops and espouse lefty viewpoints while doing it, you can still make big bucks.

I started doing some how-to and firearms related videos a month ago, but doubt I’ll ever see a penny from it.


13 posted on 02/19/2018 8:50:17 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Even in professions such as engineering and medicine much of the material to be learned is **very*** routine and changes little from year to year. This can and should be available for nearly free through the Internet with low cost testing at certified testing services.

Yes, laboratories and clinical rotations need brick and mortar but the rest of it is a waste of the student's time and money.

14 posted on 02/19/2018 9:01:14 PM PST by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: Larry Lucido

Tip #6. Start your own blog and pimp it on FR.


15 posted on 02/19/2018 9:09:51 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust Sessions. The Great Awakening is at hand...MAGA!)
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To: Armen Hareyan

16 posted on 02/19/2018 9:17:28 PM PST by Spruce
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To: Fungi

Don’t encourage the troll.


17 posted on 02/20/2018 2:17:20 AM PST by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: Armen Hareyan
Have you made any youtube videos that have been watched by many people?

Yes, a video of a blogger drinking from a toilet.

It was very funny, millions of people enjoyed it.

18 posted on 02/20/2018 2:20:51 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: wastedyears

I sometimes put something up on YT but not a whole lot of success.

Considering the crap that is out there done on phones that is shaky, out of focus, no edits, and the person won’t shut up that do so well, it discourages me some.

I have about a decade in TV production, know how to use a tripod, know some about lighting and audio, use 4K capable GH4, and am a good albiet conventional editor but no one seems to care. I haven’t seemed to find a something that connects with people.

Maybe it’s a reflection of my public TV time. Nice looking but dull......

https://www.youtube.com/user/tvengr4047/videos


19 posted on 02/20/2018 4:05:47 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

“””Why does our education system completely sucks? “””

Good question. Ok, maybe not...


My kids used to watch some English kid playing minecraft and making goofy comments. Come to find out, the teenaged kid playing video games for a living is making 6 figures doing so. Along with ads, he has a website where you can buy stuff.

And here I used to make fun of him, saying; What’s he going to do, play video games for a living? Had no clue he already was and was doing very well at it.


20 posted on 02/20/2018 6:51:27 AM PST by Pollard (TRUMP 2020)
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