The best ICM II small group ever

Months ago I promised I would post a picture of my Introduction to Clinical Medicine II small group. Well, here it is (better late than never). Every second year medical student at UW is part of an Introduction to Clinical Medicine (ICM) small group. Once a week you go to the hospital with your group and practice interviewing patients (some weeks you get together and practice parts of the advanced physical exam instead of going to the hospital). The ICM II small groups are sort of like your own little miniature medical school family. About 5 or 6 ICM II small groups make up a College - a larger group of Med school students and faculty that do functions together and have peer advising together. (I think that some of this is a real effort by the university to make sure that med students don't feel lost in the med school system). The ICM II group's mentor is each student's own personal clinical teacher for each second year student within the group. Our mentor, Sam, is an awesome mentor/clinical teacher. He is nice and encouraging, but good about giving feedback when you need to improve on something.

Here is a picture of our ICM II small group (our miniature second year med school family). In the very back (with his face being blocked by my head) is our mentor, Sam. In the next (standing) row from left to right we have: Avi, Linnea, Sarah, and Me. In the next row from left to right we have: Julia, Daniel, and Tara.

Last year I posted a picture of Sam, Avi, Sarah, Tara, and myself. This year has been even more fun because Daniel and Linnea joined us as second year students from Alaska, and Julia expanded to our class from the third year class. It is so much fun spending time with them. We really do have the best small group ever!