Welcome!

First Year MS-A Students--

Congratulations on making it to the Case Western MS-A program, and welcome!   My name is Marcel Graf.  I am an AA-S2 here at Case-Houston, as well as the main author and administrator of this blog.

The purpose of this 'primer' is to help you prepare for your MS-A coursework, specifically during bootcamp.  The blog starts there, at least; however, we hope it will evolve into a comprehensive and authoritative survival guide for first year didactics and clinicals.  Regardless of how talented you all are--of course, we assume you are the best of the best--the first year will invariably challenge each-and-every one of you in some way.  Our goal is to inform you of some of the more difficult challenges early on, and to confer the kind of advice and information that would have helped us in our first year.

And so this blog is meant to give you the benefit of our collective experience, and we only offer our insights as peers.  Please keep in mind that we are not instructors--no one is paying us to do this--and neither this blog nor the second year students contributing to it have any formal responsibility to your education here at Case.

Eventually, we will be creating a public discussion forum for use by any current CWRU MS-A student.  Once this is up-and-running, please remember to use your best discretion on the forum, as well as in your conversations around the MS-A. This means no HIPAA violations (you'll learn what those are soon enough), no public sharing of private hospital information, no disparaging remarks, no spazzing out, etc etc.....You get the idea.

Enough of the legalese.  With out further ado, I am going to start things off with a few entries about the drug card.

Enjoy!