A few of us are getting together for an unofficial second look next Thursday, March 19th through Saturday, March 21st. If you are interested, head over to the Mayo Medical School Class of 2013 Facebook page and post on the wall.
As requested, here is the first year schedule for that Thursday and Friday in case those of you visiting want to arrange to sit in on a class (might have to clear it with Marcy first - but I would imagine it's fine). We don't have any classes from 8-10am that week because we're doing our first real patient exams during that time in a rotating schedule.
😀 Also, the pharmacology lecture at 10am on Thursday will have a 10 question ARS quiz first, but I can't imagine it will take long, and the lecturer (Dr. Michael Ackerman) is pretty engaging (despite the fact that I prefer micro a thousand times over pharm). We haven't had the lecturer that will be giving the virology lectures that week yet (Dr. Abinash Virk), so I can't estimate about how interesting those lectures will be, but I like studying bugs, so don't trust my opinion anyway. Also, on the days when there is a two hour lecture scheduled, we almost always have a 5-10 minute break after the first hour, so you would be able to slip out easily then if you just wanted to sit in for an hour. So, the lectures for those days are:
Thursday
10-12: Pharmacology - Receptor and Ion Channel Pharmacology 101
12-1: Lunch break
1-3: Pharmacology (Autonomic) - Part I - Adrenergics
Friday
10-12: Microbiology - Virology (Papilloma, smallpox, etc. 10-11; Yellow Fever, Dengue, West Nile, etc. 11-12)
12-1: Lunch break
1-2: Microbiology - Virology (Ebola, prions, etc.)
2-3: Pharmacology - Therapy for Viral Infections
Also, I haven't taken a look at the facebook group, so I don't know what you've planned already, but if you guys want to get together with some current students let me know and I'm sure we can get a group together.
And of course, good luck to those of you still waiting to hear back! It's not over til it's over!
