First Day

[DaBlackRose]

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Actually yeah. Somebody address orientation. Why is it so long again? And what is it we're actually supposed to do for that week? I mean yay, please drop $2,000 on books you wont' have time to read and don't forget your health insurance. But congrats on your white coats.

How can that take a whole week? Am I just going to be paraded around for no reason in high heels? Because I protest! I'd rather chill in my apt and make new friends...

My feet already hurt at the thought....

 

[DiverDoc]

Actually yeah. Somebody address orientation. Why is it so long again? And what is it we're actually supposed to do for that week? I mean yay, please drop $2,000 on books you wont' have time to read and don't forget your health insurance. But congrats on your white coats.

How can that take a whole week? Am I just going to be paraded around for no reason in high heels? Because I protest! I'd rather chill in my apt and make new friends...

My feet already hurt at the thought....

For KCUMB you will go out to the community and help out with projects. The group I was with went to a daycare center in a very rough part of town and played basketball with kids all afternoon. Other than that it is boring presentation after presentation. I think the depressing fin. aid lasted like 3 hours. Orientation week is a major sleep-fest until the white coat. Make sure to enjoy the open bar at the hotel after. 👍 For Foundations of medicine, your real first day in med school is rather easy compared to most schools. That will change in Musculoskeletal though 😉

 

[MossPoh]

We don't get our whitecoats till we finish anatomy and our first doctoring course....lame. Not that I'm real excited about it, but it does make the standardized patient deal feel more official.

 

[211519]

We don't get our coats until December.

 

[Cp22kjer]

We don't get our whitecoats till we finish anatomy and our first doctoring course....lame. Not that I'm real excited about it, but it does make the standardized patient deal feel more official.

Well atleast you feel like you earned it! We get ours during orientation....I've been told this is due to starting our clinical experiences in the second week.

 

[MossPoh]

Well atleast you feel like you earned it! We get ours during orientation....I've been told this is due to starting our clinical experiences in the second week.

Yea. We start our clinical stuff second week. My first standardized patient and all was on Wednesday. We just wear a collared shirt and bacteria trap....I mean tie.

 

[jp104]

Well atleast you feel like you earned it! We get ours during orientation....I've been told this is due to starting our clinical experiences in the second week.

At NYCOM we didn't have our white coat ceremony until near the end of 2nd yr. It really made you feel like you earned it.

We do get a cheapo whitecoat for standardized pt encounters during orientation though.

 

[Sandlot13]

Im nervous, yes, but soooo excited to just get started. This summer just relaxing and doing random stuff is fun, but im getting bored and chomping at the bit waiting for school to start..... all this talk about starting out already behind just makes me wish I could already be doing something to get ahead! 😉

 

[MossPoh]

Im nervous, yes, but soooo excited to just get started. This summer just relaxing and doing random stuff is fun, but im getting bored and chomping at the bit waiting for school to start..... all this talk about starting out already behind just makes me wish I could already be doing something to get ahead! 😉

Yea, it is amazing how fast that attitude changes. Every day I wake up and am happy I am where I am, but I'm not always happy about having to sit in lecture and listen to a soft soothing voice in a dark room for a few hours.

 

[nlax30]

Yea, it is amazing how fast that attitude changes. Every day I wake up and am happy I am where I am, but I'm not always happy about having to sit in lecture and listen to a soft soothing voice in a dark room for a few hours.

Don't fight it...... relax, don't fightzzzzzzzz 😴

 

[MossPoh]

Don't fight it...... relax, don't fightzzzzzzzz 😴

Second row and right in front of the podium (we sit in groups for anatomy). It makes it tough. Trust me...I want to.

 

[Cp22kjer]

At NYCOM we didn't have our white coat ceremony until near the end of 2nd yr. It really made you feel like you earned it.

We do get a cheapo whitecoat for standardized pt encounters during orientation though.

Yeah I kind of wish we did that, but I can see the benefits of doing it early too.

 

[Gpan]

Im nervous, yes, but soooo excited to just get started. This summer just relaxing and doing random stuff is fun, but im getting bored and chomping at the bit waiting for school to start..... all this talk about starting out already behind just makes me wish I could already be doing something to get ahead! 😉

You're gonna go back to this thread in 2 years and thank me for this. READ the PATH book NOW. That **** is hard. I can't believe the upperclass men rarely tell the newbies this. Reading that **** ahead of time will NOT get you a better grade, but it will help ease the pain😀. TRUST ME.

 

[MossPoh]

I hope that is a friggin joke.

 

[rkaz]

At NYCOM we didn't have our white coat ceremony until near the end of 2nd yr. It really made you feel like you earned it.

We do get a cheapo whitecoat for standardized pt encounters during orientation though.

I can see the merit of this... you really feel like you've earned your coat.

Conversely, I'd hate to be the student who has their white coat ceremony the first week of school in August, and invites all their family and friends... and then drops out of school 2 months later thinking it is too hard. I'd feel mortified if that was the case.

I don't know when my school's WC ceremony is... either October or December. I guess that at least gives me a few months to know whether I can handle being a med student or not. I'm assuming yes... but am stressed out about it for some reason, as it has been nearly 5 years since my last science courses.

 

[Bacchus]

Agreed. PCOM's is in October so atleast we'll have some exams by then. I invited my DO mentor so lets hope I can stand it that long...and then finish, haha.

 

[HarMegido]

First day of classes in medical school. What was it like? The more descriptive, the better.

Thanks!

here comes the pain. be a little descriptive, on a scale of 1 through 10, 10 being the worst pain you ever felt, 20

 

[punkiedad]

Agreed. PCOM's is in October so atleast we'll have some exams by then. I invited my DO mentor so lets hope I can stand it that long...and then finish, haha.

The Avatars just keep getting better.......

 

[spicedmanna]

You're gonna go back to this thread in 2 years and thank me for this. READ the PATH book NOW. That **** is hard. I can't believe the upperclass men rarely tell the newbies this. Reading that **** ahead of time will NOT get you a better grade, but it will help ease the pain😀. TRUST ME.

Are you seriously advising the kiddos to read during the interim period? I can't emphasize enough how useless that is. It won't help you in class and it won't likely easy any pain. The only thing it's gonna do is waste your summer. Go have fun and forget about it. The pain will start soon enough. There's no reason to start the pain early.

 

[spicedmanna]

I can see the merit of this... you really feel like you've earned your coat.

I would have liked to have received my coat at the end of 2nd year. That's the appropriate time, in my opinion. Instead I got it before school even began. What a joke. I still don't know much now, but at least I feel I have earned the right to wear a short white coat, having nearly completed my pre-clinical coursework and about to start rotations in roughly two months or less.

 

[spicedmanna]

Actually yeah. Somebody address orientation. Why is it so long again? And what is it we're actually supposed to do for that week? I mean yay, please drop $2,000 on books you wont' have time to read and don't forget your health insurance. But congrats on your white coats.

How can that take a whole week? Am I just going to be paraded around for no reason in high heels? Because I protest! I'd rather chill in my apt and make new friends...

My feet already hurt at the thought....

Gah...orientation. It was all a blur. In fact, the last two years have been a blur. All I can remember was that I spent a lot of time studying, with the occasional crazy outing after exams.

To your question, my fuzzy recollection is that the first day, you sign a whole bunch of forms, get lectured to about the rules (professionalism) and whatnot, meet some of the administration, get oriented on the multi-media stuff, including email, library, and electronic resources, receive your bone box (that you'll need for anatomy your first year), get your ID's made, do a half-day community service project, do some sort of too-long "get to know the campus" activity, receive your white coat (in a bag), do the white coat rehearsal, participate in the white coating ceremony (nice after-ceremony party), and, if you are on the ball, you'll finish ERF's microscope sign out before everyone rushes to do it. I remember there was waiting and lines involved.

 

[bbake87]

You're gonna go back to this thread in 2 years and thank me for this. READ the PATH book NOW. That **** is hard. I can't believe the upperclass men rarely tell the newbies this. Reading that **** ahead of time will NOT get you a better grade, but it will help ease the pain😀. TRUST ME.

I'm guessing it is a joke. I remember being in your shoes 4 years ago, and feeling like I should be studying several hours/day. I'm glad I didn't. Enjoy summer before 1st year. People studying before the beginning of 1st year may have a temporary/brief headstart, but after the a couple of weeks everyone will be caught up.