medaholic

The first week of medical school has been quite an experience like no other. I am at a lost for words to describe it, so instead I will use numbers and statistics to best capture my feelings.

Number of applicants: 1388
Applicants Interviewed: 451
Total Positions Available: 150
Final class size: 150

Mean GPA of entering class: 3.8
Mean MCAT score for each section: 11
Mean Writing Sample: Q

Number of students with a BSc or BA: 117
Number of students with a Masters: 7
Number of students with a PhD: 3
Number of students with an B.Eng: 2
Number of students with a Theology Degree:1
Number of students with incomplete degrees: 11
Number of students with an M.D: 150 hopeful

Number of young adults: 127
Number of teenagers: 4
Number of married students: 8
Number of students with kids: 3
Number of students who are old enough to be my dad: 1

Number of Females with blonde highlights: 15
Number of Males with blonde highlights: 5
Students who perpetually wear a hat: 4
Students with no hair (clean shaven): 3
Students with grey-white hair: The same old guy

Total hours spent in class in first week: 18
Expected class time hours a week for the next two years: 35-40
Number of hours a week expected in clerkship: 60+
Numbers of hours a week expected in residency: 80+
Hours of sleep a week for the next five years: 50, 45, 40, 35, 30…
Hours in a week: 168

Number of classes in the first week: 12
Classes that were mandatory: 0
Number of classes that were interesting: 5
Classes that people fell asleep in: 12
Number of times the class applauded at the end of class: All of them

Number of professors that taught in the first week: 8
Number of professors that were medical doctors: 8
Number of times the phrase “Welcome to Medical School” was said: 101
Number of times the phrase “Congratulations for making it into medical school” was said: 84
People who said the hardest part was over: 5
People who said the hardest part was just beginning: 63

Number of classes on how to do research and gather information given: 2
Number of times PubMed was mentioned: 5
Number of times Wikipedia was mentioned: 50
Number of times “I’ll kill you if you use Wikipedia” was mentioned: 50

Number of PBL (Problem Based Learning) Sessions: 3
Number of people in each group: 8
Number of cases studied: 1
Books needed for the case: 2
Articles read for PBL: 5
Times a group member said something intelligent: 8
Times a group member said something incredibly stupid: 27
People who couldn’t stop speaking: 2
People who didn’t speak at all: 1
People who knew what they were doing: 1 (The facilitator)

Number of power point slides shown in class: 541
Number of slides with medical knowledge: 151
Number of slides with names of professors: 23
Slides with just one sentence on it: 30
Times powerpoint slides went backwards went clicked: 54
Times computer crashed: 2

Number of lecture-related questions asked: 41
Number of joke questions asked: 3
Number of times someone asked “Will this be tested?”:32
Number of times someone asked about matching into residency: 2
Number of gunners / keeners in our class: 2 discovered so far

Number of questions asked during a patient-history taking session: 342
Number of those questions related to the actual patient illness:82
Number of proposed obscure diseases:14
Number of them being right: 0
Number of people who repeatedly asked questions: 10
Number of people who asked questions at every lecture: 1
Number of obnoxious questions askers in our class: 1

Hours of class spent in undergrad: at least 1500
Hours spent doing labs: 120
Hours spent studying for exams in undergrad: 242
Hours spent studying for the MCAT: 198
Year of schooling before medical school: 2-8
Number of years left in medical school: 4
Number of years after medical school: A lifetime