Welcome Potoos!

Welcome to the CSM! You are embarking on a wonderful journey filled with challenges and triumphs! Know that friends and colleagues from the CSM are here to guide you, and excited to help you succeed along your journey. Enjoy, and looking forward to seeing you on the wards!

- William K, 2020

Greetings Potoos from a proud Poodle! My only advice to you is that self-care, socializing, sleep and exercise are just as important as studying. Also, don't ever hesitate to ask for help if you need it - everyone here at this school wants you to succeed! I look forward to welcoming all of you as colleagues in 2027!

- Elisabeth W, '88

Welcome to the menagerie. You will always be proud of your Calgary training. Go to the mountains whenever you can, it will offset your hours inside. 

- Gwyneth d V, 1995

Life travels fast and even faster as a doctor. Enjoy the ride. Advice: don't chase $$$, take 1 day a week off, get home as early as possible to support family. Always be on time, keep your sigo happy, delegate as much as possible and automate everything from the beginning. Hire professionals for your personal life. Innovate and do not stagnate. Congrats and enjoy your highly privileged station in life!! - M Iizuka (kinkajous).

- Megumi I, 2001

Congratulations to the Potoos. I'm from the class of "81"-the lampreys. We were named this because our "nerds" would wear their lab coats over to McDonalds to be recognized as "docs". Get it? Lampreys "suck!"
This is a special journey to a fabulous career. You will change and improve peoples lives, which few get to do. Just remember, this job is about the patient-not you.
Good luck.

• William F, 1981

Welcome to the menagerie from the Echidnas! Medicine is a small community- show kindness and compassion to your peers and you'll make deep meaningful friendships, lasting a lifetime. Good luck!

- Siavash Z, 2023

Congratulations Potoos! Welcome to our family.

- Colin F, 2012
 

Enjoy your time in medical school, where you’ll meet the best and the brightest and develop strong friendships as you travel the path together to becoming physicians. 
Make good memories! Congratulations on becoming a Potoo!

- Lucy H, 1998

Congratulations class of 2027! Find you passion within our large field of medicine and enjoy the journey. Relax, you’ve made it! Now calmly focus on knowledge and skill acquisition. Be friendly, socialize and engage with your peers and your community at large. Make these next few years memorable as you develop into fine physicians.

• Nahbeel P, 2012
   

Welcome from the Kinkajous - class of 2001!

Alexandra McP, 2001
 

Congratulations and welcome!  Some things you learn now will no longer be how you treat patients in ten years but as long as you keep learning, adapting, and staying connected to your medical community, you will keep current on the latest medical knowledge. I highly recommend using UpToDate.com (subscription often paid for by UofC). Also, don't let charting/documenting become your life.  I wish someone taught me this from the very beginning. Good luck!!

- Laura M, 2009

Welcome to the best job on earth. There will be ups and downs for sure but by the time you retire, you will be ecstatic to have been privileged to serve. 
Enjoy your new colleagues, you will have many lasting friendships among them.

- Mary D, 1980

Welcome Potoos!
Your time at U of C in the Faculty of Medicine will demand hard work, dedication and support for your classmates. Most of all, remember diseases that you study impact the patient and the entire family. Pebble in the pond effect.

Garnet C, 1978

Welcome to the greatest medical school. Celebrate every new experience, and keep on learning. yes, it will be over before you know it.

- Dillip S, 1980

Welcome to medicine and to the menagerie! Buckle up and enjoy the ride - it goes by faster than you think! Learning medicine is important, but don't forget to have fun. Support each other and help each other - it's the only way to get through with your sanity intact! You will find menagerie members of all vintages all over the country when you go on elective in 3rd year - be sure to say hi!

- Wesley C, 2015