Description
Will their love last? Will they submit their residency applications in time?
Scope and Scalpel is a unique Pitt Med tradition in which graduating medical students produce a full-length musical production parodying their medical school experience. Traditionally uncensored, but always good-natured, the show is the longest-running annual theatrical production in Western Pennsylvania, with the first show performed on May 13, 1955.
Its founders were a few students who worked in a lab run by Dr. Frank Dixon. One day while out at a local pub discussing the challenges of attending Pitt Med, the idea to produce a class play was born. That spring, over 50 fourth-year medical students came together to write, produce, act, and sing in a show entitled “PMS IV” for a sold-out crowd at the Stephen Foster Memorial Theater.
Students strive to represent the medical world they’ve come to know so well through their years at Pitt Med, and the result is always a candid and comedic take on the medical school experience. Historically, students draw inspiration from pop culture and famous storylines, with titles ranging from “Scar Trek” in 1975 to “Back to the Suture” in 1990 to “Pitt Med Musical” in 2022.
Your gift to the Scope and Scalpel Fund helps support production costs.