Medical School Party

We didn't really know any of the other first years when we first came out here to start school. My husband Nic, quickly became friends with Steve and Jeff. They studied together and hung out together a lot at school This meant that the guys wanted to get together outside of school which allowed us wives to get to know each other really well.  Ever since first year, the guys decided it would be fun to have a Cafe Rio Party sometime. Well, I am sad to admit we never granted their wish.....until now.

Kim and I were talking a few weeks ago about wanting to get together as families before both of our husbands head off to away rotations. As wives, we get together quite a bit but with different rotation schedules we hadn't hung out as entire families in awhile. We decided their (Nic, Steve, and Jeff's) dream of a Cafe Rio Party would finally come- and be a great way to celebrate being done with 3rd year (and rotations).

We decided we would have some fun with everyone and planned a little competitive game. This game would work great to start or end any medical school year. We did it by couples, husbands competing against their own wife. But we also kept track of the time so there could also be an overall competition.

For the husbands:

1st activity - They had to talk on the phone, explaining how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, while doing either C's or E's hair.

Once they finished the girl's hair, the moved on the last station where they frosted a heart cookie and then decorated it with an EKG.

The wives:

We started with some surgery gloves, and had to put on the gloves in order to keep the gloves "sterile." Nic showed the wives the proper way of putting the gloves on - there is a special way of doing it. (Husbands watched to make sure we did it the right way).

Once the gloves were on, we had to play Operation. We only had 3 pieces in there (all different textures), if we were to do it again I would add another 1 or 2 pieces.

Just for fun, we switched roles near the end where the wives did the wive things while the husbands did the husband things. Both ways were a lot of fun!

We ended the night with some "Medical" Cookies.

Just cut the onesie to make it a scrub top. For the band-aid, take flower and just use the middle part from top petal to bottom petal.

Cookies left to right: bone, EKG heart, scrub top, two band aids, a pill, and a single band aid. If you make some, please post pictures we woul love to see your creativity!