How to:

How to make a room full of medical students completely freak out in less than 5 seconds:

change their schedule.

Medical students like order,

consistency, and structure. We are planners.

We do NOT like being told 2 months before beginning our rotations that the first 3 months have been changed.

You would have thought the clinical education staff told us we'd have to move to Africa the way everyone was flipping out. One girl cried while trying to say they couldn't do this to us. One boy argued with the doctor in charge of the entire clinical education department (NOT a good idea) only to be told if he didn't like it he should have gone to an army school.

I sat quietly with my head down and prayed it would be over soon.

Then I went home, cried, argued with Jeremy, and then realized he was right and it was better ;)

Turns out the switch is actually for our benefit- the clin. ed. department knew what they were doing.....

go figure...

:) :) HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!! :) :)