Medical embryology - Difficult concepts of early development.mp4 

What an absolute hero. I can only imagine the effort put into getting all those layers right with the playdough. Thankyou so much, it's beautifully clear now.

10 years later and I hope you know you're teaching current med students better than we're getting in lecture! Great visuals it's like a lightbulb just went on!

OMG I allmost started to cry. I have spent so many hours trying to understand this. This video was fantastic.

The openings of the early mouth (stomodeum) and UG and GI tracts (cloaca) are initially covered by a membrane that ruptures as development proceeds, allowing the fetus to breath and swallow amiotic fluid which is then exhaled or filtered and excreted by the kidney. The extraembryonic stuff is probably needing a video of its own - there's a lot going on. Some of it forms a membrane around the fetus while the rest is part of the placenta. I'll see if I can get something together on that topic.

Ten years later and this is still the only video on YT that actually explains in one video what is happening. You are THE man! Thank you.

This was absolutely one of the best embryo explanations. Problem with embryo is visualizing the whole process. This video solves that issue. Thank you SOOOO MUCH!

you're better than most of my lecturers in the embryology/anatomy department. thanks!

These 18 minutes have changed my point of view towards embryology.I thought embryology was just some piece of colourful shit. I'm speechless now

Ten years after you posted this, I'm in my first year of medical school and really needed this. I was a freshman in high school when you posted this originally! Thank you so much!

those who disliked this video are disgrace to humanity.

THIS WAS SO INCREDIBLY HELPFUL!!!!! Thank you from an anxious, overwhelmed OMS I!!!

Nice!! Thanks for the upload! ❤ I find it funny how he just throws away the hypoblast. 😂😂😂

Sir, you are the first embryology professor who has not made me feel sleepy and actually made me smile while I was learning embryology. Hats off to you for explaining a difficult concept so easily and with subtle humor :)

Thank you, thank you, thank you! After two days of complete suffering, you've made everything clear in my head of the early development! You are a man born to teach!

YOU ARE AMAZING!!!! Honestly, more teachers need to be like you and learn from you. It literally changes everything and the way students think and learn. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart because I really appreciate all the time and effort you put into making such a complex concept much simpler!

This is extremely helpful. Thank you SO much for putting this together. Beautifully explained.

This has been the most. Helpful embryology video! I keep referring back to this! Thanks so much :)

Im speechless, so amazing!! Whole the year i couldnt understand that process.. now..just 18minutes watching your perfect video and finally understand it all! Thank u soo much! :-)

As many others have stated, your video is absolutely incredible. You go through all the steps succinctly and clearly, and the labels and 3D clay structures really help with understanding! Thank you so much!

OMG! I love everyone involved in the making of this video! it is an absolute lifesaver. 8 weeks of total and utter confusion is fixed in just 18 mins 26 secs!! Cheers!!

beautiful job! Your students are very fortunate

OMG thank you😭😭 that was the best lesson I've ever seen on the internet👏🏽👏🏽

Really, the best explanation of early embryology I've come across as I prepare for Step 1. The circle drawing is surprisingly very soothing. Thank you!

So clear! In 20 minutes you explained (and very well) what my teachers couldn't in much more time.

YOur lecture is so clear!! This is going to be so helpful for my midterm tomorrow thank you

You are a wonderful teacher! Thank you!

embryology was genuinely a foreboding pit of confusion before this video, it has really helped me visualize it all, thank you so much for sharing this!

I was having a lot of trouble visualising neurulation in a 3D conformation and this video helped me so much. Thank god for people like you!!!!!

wow thank you for dedicating your time and making this vid. very helpful!

this video is the best video explaining embryonic development thank you so much

Thank you so much! This was the most fantastic description of a most valuable process of growth. I look forward to watching more of your awesome teaching.

I really struggled with this, and you made it very clear and easy to see. This is truely wonderful. Thank you for uploading this!

I don't comment on many videos, but this is class. Thank you

thank you sooo much for putting up soo much effort into making this video.. it is really helpful. :)

This lecture is speechless..! Condenses a big portion of developmental chapter, and visualized the concept that is almost impossible to understand from just reading the textbook!!! I really appreciate it!!

I cannot thank you enough! 5 lectures of learning all these new words and structures and finally I know how everything ends up where!

amazing video sir ... God bless .....

Thank you sir. Amazing explanation

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I've been struggling with this for ages and you've explained it in a way which finally makes sense in my head! Thank you from a 1st year vet student

best way to understand early embryo development, ahte those schemes showing from blastula to gastrula and magically a coelom. took me 1 hr to find a good video, but god this has helped me put everything together. Thank you so much.

I rolled the purple play-doh into the red play-doh and squished them together. Glad it looked professionally done!

Thank you very much sir. It is one of the best lectures I have ever seen. May Allah bless you. Please keep us teaching in this easy manner.

Holy!! This was extremely helpful. Enjoyed every second of this 18-minute video. Now I can vividly visualize the entire process. Again, THANK YOU!!

This was fantastic. My medical school professor got handed this lecture from a retiring teacher. Needless to say she butchered it. You've done a fantastic job and made sure the different transitions between stages were clearly visualized. Thank you for all the help!

Quran(23:12-16) Man We did create from a quintessence (of clay); Then We placed him as (a drop of) sperm in a place of rest, firmly fixed; Then We made the sperm into a clot of congealed blood; then of that clot We made a (foetus) lump; then we made out of that lump bones and clothed the bones with flesh; then we developed out of it another creature. So blessed be Allah, the best to create! After that, at length ye will die Again, on the Day of Judgment, will ye be raised up. "The staging of human embryos was not described until the 20th century. Streeter (1941) developed the first system of staging which has now been replaced by a more accurate system proposed by O’Rahilly (1972). However, the Quran was the first source to mention this (23:12-16)." Dr. Gary Miller.

this video is so helpful i can see many videos(or almost all) on RU-vid that used the ideas of your clay models to make 3D diagrams to explain embryology. thank you so much.

Words can't describe how thankful I am to you for explaining this so beautifully. Thank you.

You should be awarded the medal of "greatest teacher in medicine".

That was an excellent way of putting forth the most complicated subject. I got to understand this after several years.Thank you Sir

Omg I just scrolled down my RU-vid and saw your video. I wanna let you know that your video was so helpful during my academic years. Thanks a million

It helped me a lot to get the big picture of how the tissues are moving around and where they come from. thanks a lot!

Wasn't the most technologically advanced or fancy video but it really did help me understand the concept and that's what's important. Thanks a lot!

This was the first video that actually helped me visualize all this. Thank you very much!

Outstanding. My understanding of this process has increased exponentially in less than 20 minutes thanks to you!

OMG this is spectacularly done. The fact that you draw out things and slice them and fold and create during the video, gives the student's mind an ability and time to mirror and process your actions creating an awesome study aid. Kind of reminds me of an apple commercial. Thank you from a random med student studying for step 1.

Sir, I give you the utmost respect. You've taught me the processes of cleavaging, blastulation, and gastrulation so efficient within 20 minutes that it took my lectures 3 weeks to get through blastulation. Not only that, I did not understand a thing during lecture. Thank you so much.

Very gifted teacher and probably the most concise and methodical way I have heard this taught. Excellent and thanks very much for uploading this invaluable revision tool for embryology.

Don't know how many times I've watched this video by now! Brilliant!

Very well explained sir. I've been in medical college for 9 months now but wasn't quite able to figure out the folding process till now. Thanks a bunch!

The best embryology class I ever came across. Never expected watching youtube would be good for my medical knowledge. I got through my anatomy exams not really understanding the concepts. Thanks to you, they are so much better now. You are a true Guru and I am your fan.

Amazing, this is not only a great summary, but the best explanation on neuroembriology I have ever encountered. Simple, clear & efficient. Thank you

I go to the university with the prof that actually discovered what you are explaining, yet you explanation makes much more sense. thank you.

The 3D demo is just terrific. I just took an undergrad full year term of histology, My Ham and Cormack Histology was a great text, but plasticine 3D modelling can't be beat. Thank-you!

Brilliant Video. Current MS1 and this is probably the best lecture I have ever received. Thank you so much!

after 5 years of studying medicine, this is for the first time I could understand embryo truly... thank you so much

A great video! The fact that this was explained in 3d really helped me imagine how everything works.

Just cried, for joy. You are my inspiration for continued strive towards excellence.

That is absolutely brilliant sir. The best explanation possible. I've been scratching my head over this topic and you shatter the confusion in mere minutes. EXCELLENT.

So well explain!!! and in 18 min, the first year med school lecturer had 2 hours to explain it and by the end of it, everybody was just confused! you deserve a standing ovation for sure!! thanks for sharing this!

The best demonstration that I have ever seen of early embryonic development, that you I wish that my university professors would explain that simply !! thank you !!!

The video is brilliant! Such complex notions explained as simple as possible! Thank you!

Your explanation and visualizations are all very clear. I finally understood this topic. Thank you very much and more power to you!

Zero Confusion on Embryology! Great ! I cannot imagine the amount of effort you have put ! Much much more understandable than 3D animation Great I just want to praise you more and more !

This video is ABSOLUTELY fantastic. I understood such a difficult concept so easily and it helps me to visualise the process as well. Thank you!!

I finally understand what's happening. Brilliant job. Really cleared things up for me. THANK YOU!

OMG this video helped me A LOT, I was freaking out because I was not grasping the subject but now everything is starting to click, thank you!

This really is the best lecture on development. Other sources (although some are helpful) only give a 2d form or are clear about one stage of development. This really simplifies everything.

This was incredibly helpful, I went through the whole year not understanding this until now. Thank you!!

Amazing! Cleared up 3 lectures and 6 hours in just 18 minutes! Thank you!

I have goosebumps! IDK why!!? So happy to finally freaking understand this whole freaking thing!! Thank you so much Sir!! I will always always be grateful to you!

this is honestly the most helpful thing i’ve ever watched on youtube!! hundreds of times better than my embryology lectures! THANK YOU

Thank you!! Condensed 3 lectures into 20 mins. Brilliant

What a creative way to present the process of embryonic development. Good job

This video was honestly incredible. So helpful in helping me understand (especially with the playdough!) Thank you!

This video is life changing. Thank you for taking away my 6years of pain.

Dear Sir, you have just saved Christmas break for yet another group of first year medical school students. Thank you and God bless!

Great short video - I stumbled across this when trying to review my embryology and was trying to make sense of a book's confusing illustrations. Using clay is a great way to visualize these concepts. Thank you! I laughed when I saw the knife you used to cut the clay was about 100 times larger than it had to be.

My God! You have worked so hard and taken real pains to explain this highly complex topic to the viewers. Awesome job!! Keep up your good work and creativity.

Best teacher ever! You explained in 18 minutes what I didn't understand in 4 different 90min classes x much love from geneva

Today (after my first Embryology class) you are my absolute HERO!

I was skeptical that someone with play-doh could explain it as well as folks who do modern animations, but you did it... amazing explanation... thank you so much, keep slinging that play-doh!

I'm a french medical student, and you made it so easy to understand, you actually managed to sum up 4 hours of my lesson in less than 20 minutes (I am not even exaggerating!), the techniques you used to explain were perfect, you have all my respect for that! Thank you so much!

It was really worth watching. The cumbersome concepts were made clear through nice model demonstration.

For hours I was unsuccessfully trying to visualize this from a textbook. Your video has saved me many hours more of unproductive work. Thank You.

You can't imagine how easy you made this! Thank you so much!

This is an excellent video. I dodged embryology for the whole year so thank you very much for this.

This helped me more than I am willing to admit, you pratically safed my exam. Thank you!

I just had to log in to say Thank You!You just explain three chapters and four lectures in 18 mins.I am in Med school in Jamaica and the course load is unbelievably tis was unbelievably helpful!Blessings!nuff respect

This was an amazing explanation. I'm not watching this for school but it actually was fascinating to understand such a complex transformation this easily!

published in 2012 and i still find it easier to understand and factual than vids made now.. great work