Stethoscopes and lederhosen?

Christopher Capozziello

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Christopher Capozziello

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Christopher Capozziello

The cast acknowledges the stage and light techs as the audience applauds. View full image

Christopher Capozziello

The cast acknowledges the stage and light techs as the audience applauds. View full image

Christopher Capozziello

August Fortin sings “OPQ” to the tune of “Do Re Mi” from the Sound of Music. View full image

Christopher Capozziello

August Fortin sings “OPQ” to the tune of “Do Re Mi” from the Sound of Music. View full image

Christopher Capozziello

Emile Boulpaep touts himself as a “Modern Physiologist” (to the tune of “Modern Major General” from the Pirates of Penzance). View full image

Christopher Capozziello

Emile Boulpaep touts himself as a “Modern Physiologist” (to the tune of “Modern Major General” from the Pirates of Penzance). View full image

Christopher Capozziello

Students dance to “Can't Hold Us” in the show within a show. View full image

Christopher Capozziello

Students dance to “Can't Hold Us” in the show within a show. View full image

Christopher Capozziello

The climax of the show within a show: all the dancers join the Congo line or dance in the background to a music video of “Sharp Eyes” (to “Starships” by Nicki Minaj), as the Bard passes around signs (far right), and three von Trappe children sing “O Danny Boy,” before transitioning to ”Let it Go” from Disney's Frozen. View full image

Christopher Capozziello

The climax of the show within a show: all the dancers join the Congo line or dance in the background to a music video of “Sharp Eyes” (to “Starships” by Nicki Minaj), as the Bard passes around signs (far right), and three von Trappe children sing “O Danny Boy,” before transitioning to ”Let it Go” from Disney's Frozen. View full image

Second-year medical students, costumed—sort of—as the von Trapp family singers, took to the stage this February, singing “OPQ” to the tune of The Sound of Music’s “Do-Re-Mi.” What’s OPQ? A mnemonic (med school is full of mnemonics) for what to ask patients about their symptoms: O for onset, P for provocation, Q for quality. Jacob Weatherly ’16MD, shown here leading the performance in a white coat, wrote the lyrics. The occasion was the annual show given by the second-year class, which tradition says has been around for more than 50 years. According to med student and producer Jessica Ye (far right), about 80 percent of the class participated in the production, which was seen by more than 800 people during its two-night run in Harkness Auditorium. The plot was premised on the notion that the school’s new curriculum (see “Med School With Less Pain”) might threaten the show’s future, so the students set out to save it. In the finale, students learn the show will go on, welcome the new curriculum, and dance to Kesha and Pitbull’s “Timber.”