Class Show

Traditionally, the second year students put on a show for the first year students. The show this year was "The Anatomy Awards," parodying the Academy Awards (complete with the Golden Femur award). It was great! Most of it was video skits making ridiculous puns on TV shows. My favorite was "Ocean Beach - the real UCSF," a parody of "Laguna Beach - the real O.C." The show centered around some students trying to find dates to the med school prom. At one point, one of the students, the nerd, tells his crush to check iRocket/WebCT - our online message board. There, under the message board "Critical Course Info," he posted a thread, "Will you go to prom with me?" His crush replied "Yes!!!!" The next scene cut to our course organizer last block Dr. Kruidering. She said, "Oh, those kids are hopeless," and replies with a message that said, "this message board isnot fordating purposes!!!!!!!" It was hilarious, because that was written exactly in her style.

We also had a live performance of "M&N" (metabolism and nutrition), which parodied Eminem's "Without Me." It was quite good, because you really are quite empty without your GI tract. It had such bad rhymes as ATP and energy and without me. The next skit was "America's Next Top Medic," quite entertaining. The radiologist had to have a photoshoot with a blood pressure cuff, but she had no idea what it was, saying "I haven't seen a patient in years." The MC's were very good too. The finale was "Les Med," a really hilarious and talented performance which touched upon many medical student experiences, from the exciting to the dreaded. We really do have a lot of talent here.