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A Shrink, an Ortho Bro, a Lab Rat, a Princess and a Rebel
Teaching & Learning
Saturday … March 23, 2024. Rosalind Franklin University, Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, Illinois 60064. Dear Mr. Vernon … we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday morning waiting for a test that never came. But we think you’re crazy to make us write this essay telling you what kind of doctors we think we will become. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us … in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. You see us as a shrink, an ortho bro, a lab rat, a princess and a rebel. Correct?
That’s the way we saw each other at 7 o’clock this morning. We were brainwashed …
Students in RFU’s Performing Arts Club directed, wrote and starred in the second-ever student-run theater production titled The Journal Club, a medical-school parody of the 1985 film, The Breakfast Club. The excerpt above transforms the film’s famous introductory monologue. The production included students from Chicago Medical School, School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, and College of Health Professions.
“Performative arts is our creative outlet, an escape from the complexities of medical school,” said co-director Charmila Meesala, CHP ’26.
Published July 17, 2025
