hey pemulis,
can you by any chance give a more detailed version of the first/2nd year schedule? All the website says is there is integrated medical sciences, and on doctoring courses, without giving any information on when biochem, or immunology, or anatomy or whatever is taught. Also, I heard that they are now letting students arrange their core rotations anytime throughout the 3rd and 4th years - is that true, or do you have to complete all the required rotations during the 3rd year with no electives?
So far as I know, you've always been able to do clinical rotations here in pretty much any order you want. I don't know all the details, or if that's going to change at all in the coming years, but at least up until this point, people have been able to take pretty much whatever they want, so long as they get their cores in before graduation. I know one guy who did rads as his very first clinical rotation.
As for the pre-clinical stuff, it's possible that next year's schedule will be different, since the whole curriculum has been undergoing a period of change. The administration has been requesting a lot of feedback from us through this year, and I imagine some of that may be reflected in changes to next year's schedule. So take this with a grain of salt, but here's how our schedule has worked out this year:
Fall:
We started w/ anatomy, histology, and scientific foundations of medicine (these are all grouped together under the "Integrated medical sciences" banner, as are all the science courses here). Anatomy and histology went through early November, while sci foundations went the whole semester. From November until the end of the semester, we did intro to Patholgy. So basically, at all times we had scientific foundations, plus either anatomy and histology, OR pathology.
However, it's a bit more complicated than that still. See, as I mentioned earlier, the schedule changes every week. The key point about the new curriculum is that it's totally integrated. So, you may have histology four days in a row, to cover topics that correlate to what you're learning in anatomy, for example, and then not have a histology lecture again for another two weeks. I know that sounds kind of complicated, but trust me that it actually worked out quite well. In general they worked the schedule out so that in any given week, you're not taking classes from more than two subjects. The material from each class overlaps with what you're learning in the other courses, and the tests are not cumulative, so it's not like when you walk into a histo lecture after not having had one for two weeks you're struggling to remember what the teacher was talking about last time. By the way, "scientific foundations of medicine" is itself a sort of umbrella term for biochem, genetics, immuno, and cell bio. But again, within this sub-course, things are organized pretty logically. So you may have a week of genetics lectures and then that's it--you're done w/ genetics and onto the next topic. I hope the above paragraph didn't confuse you. It's a bit tough to explain the whole system, but I again emphasize that even though it sounds strange I think it's worked really well for most people.
Doctoring is simpler. We have that two afternoons a week, for the entire year (although some weeks we get a day off, for example right before a test). That course too tends to integrate a bit with the science stuff. So the week you do chest dissection in anatomy, you'll do chest and lung exam in doctoring (and cardio/pulm stuff in histology). The week you do the abdomen in anatomy, you'll do the GI exam in doctoring (and metabolism stuff in biochem).
Second semester is a bit more straightforward:
Starting in January, we had three intensive weeks of neuroanatomy. Then we did a two month integrated neuro block--pathology, physiology, pharmacology, behavior, etc. of the nervous system.
Right now we're on an endocrine block, which is organized pretty much the same way.
Next month we're doing microbio and infectious diseases, and then we're off for the summer.
Next year we'll continue w/ the integrated block model, covering all the other systems (cards, pulm, renal, heme/onc, etc).
If you're coming to second look, hopefully they can clarify it a bit more for you then, but if you're still confused you can PM me.
but the med students talked about the free clinic, moms and other groups. 
