The course syllabus doesn't cover the stuff you're actually looking for and/or the material and how it's presented to you may change (because this curriculum is a bit more dynamic than others) so I'm going to give you a break down here.
Week to week schedule can vary a lot. The first two sections (biochem and immuno) essentially follow an 8-12pm schedule. Biochem was two weeks. First midterm on Monday, final on the following Monday of the second week. Immuno followed the same pattern except it was three weeks. There was obviously very little in the way of anatomy and clinical medicine labs since those two subjects are not systems and are intro classes.
When your first system hits (musculoskeletal) then your schedule starts to fill out and goes from a 8-12pm to an 8-5pm schedule. Usually what happens is 2 of the 5 days of the week you'll have back to back two hour labs (either anatomy, clinical medicine, or osteopathic skills). The other days are 8-12pm unless there's more lectures in the afternoon or if you have skill check offs (which are essentially oral exams of things you learn in lab). MSK was 5-6 weeks with one mid term, one final, and an anatomy practical. Next block was cardiopulmonary which was the same testing schedule but way more questions (120 questions for the midterm).
In terms of context, there's no real..pattern. First year covers essentially everything in that system (embryo, physio, anatomy, histo, immuno, biochem, basic clinical med) minus pharm and pathology and clinal dx. That's how essentially every system has worked thus far. The speed and volume ramp up in MSK and it just gets faster and faster, right now in GI, we have had around 20 lectures in 1.5 weeks(300-400 slides) and we have and exam this Friday and anatomy practical next Tuesday. I don't know if I've spent a weekend "off" since school started (and the breaks).
Again when you guys start the curriculum will have been modified based on our reviews of how we did or did not like how it was taught or the sequencing of the lectures was a bit weird.
If you have more questions feel free to PM me!
