For this year’s Scope and Scalpel, the annual student-run musical lampooning the med school experience, the graduating class had their sights set on the long-anticipated expansion of Alan Magee Scaife Hall. In “West Wing Story,” rival specialties—the Scopes and the Scalpels—face off to claim space in the new wing. Meanwhile, students look forward to no longer dealing with construction workers climbing through the windows of small-group sessions. (“That actually happened,” one student points out.) “The glove story of a lifetime” ran May 18 and 19, 2023, about a month after a soft opening of the new wing—while work continued in anticipation of a full-fledged debut later in 2023. (Learn more about the addition.)

Read more from the Summer 2023 issue.