Medical School: Day 1
August 11th, 2003Today was the first day of medical school. Well not quite…it was the first day we had to be present on campus, because our week of orientation started today. How was it? Pretty boring.
My day included the usual series of beginning-of-the-year administrative activities…standing in line, picking up packets, making chit-chat with other first-year students, standing in more lines, getting student ID photos taken, making more small talk with others, and finally getting assigned to my MDL (multidisciplinary lab), a room of 24 first-year students, each with a cubicle, with the goal of making our medical school class of 160 seem a little more personal. Apparently we’ll get to know these 24 people well over the year. We’ll also get to know our ICM of 6 even better, since we’ll be going to ICM together (Intro to Clinical Medicine, where we go to a hospital once a week). This group will also be my dissection group for Gross Anatomy. Can’t wait for that to start…
Anyway it was a pretty uneventful day, except for the countless welcome lectures. That’s about it. Let’s see how the first real day of med school goes next week.