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Dear Scope and Scalpel fans,
We wanted to thank you so much for all of your generous donations! Thanks to all of you, we were able to raise $11,871! These incredible contributions have helped to fund our venue, videographer, costumes, props, playbills, makeup, and so much more! We are eternally grateful for your kindness and generosity.
Scope and Scalpel 2021 is only 5 days away! The Class of 2021 would like to cordially invite you to come see the show!
When: Friday, May 21, 2021 at 7:30 pm
Where: https://cramilton.webnode.com/
There will be an encore screening on Sunday, May 23, 2021 at 3 pm at the same website!
We hope you will be able to join us as we take you through our class’s journey through medical school!
Thank you again,
Scope and Scalpel 2021
Dear Scope and Scalpel fans,
We have officially reached our $10,000 fundraising goal!!! Thank you so much for all of your donations! Without you, this production would not be possible! We hope that you continue to support our show. Any additional donations will go to funding next year’s Scope and Scalpel production.
With the show only 3 weeks away, our cast and crew is hard at work. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at rehearsals with our five leads and a TikTok from our head writer, Valerie Gobao. Keep checking in for more videos and sneak peeks and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Stay safe and healthy,
Scope and Scalpel 2021
Hello Scope and Scalpel fans,
There’s only 1 week left in our EngagePitt Campaign! Thank you so much to all of you who have already donated! Thanks to your generous support, we have reached 92% of our goal! Today, we would like to officially announce our venue for this year’s production. We will be live-streaming our show from the beautiful August Wilson African American Cultural Center in downtown Pittsburgh. We are so excited to bring our story to life in their black box theater. As the countdown to the show continues, stay tuned for sneak peeks and new content. Today, check out this TikTok created by our very own Travis Churilla who you may see on stage as our Legacy character in just a few short weeks.
As always, stay healthy and safe,
Scope and Scalpel 2021
Hello Scope and Scalpel fans,
Big news: we have officially crossed the halfway mark of our goal! Thank you all so much for your support and generous donations! This week marks our transition to in-person rehearsals. It’s been so much fun being able to meet up again, practice our lines, and begin dance rehearsals. Our awesome choreographers whipped up some fun moves that we can’t wait to show off. There was sweating, singing, and lots of smiles! With only a few weeks left for the show, we would like to release our official show schedule:
Friday May 21st at 7:30 pm- Live in-person show with a limited 15 person audience and active live-streaming link
Sunday May 23rd at 3 pm - Encore virtual presentation of Friday’s show
We hope you all can join us! Stay tuned for some fun videos and reveals next week!
As always, stay healthy and safe!
Scope and Scalpel 2021
Hello Scope and Scalpel fans,
Thank you to all our donors and supporters! We have officially reached 37% of our goal! This week has been a whirlwind for our production. We are in the final stages of booking our venue (stay tuned for our location reveal soon) and have been working hard with virtual rehearsals. In addition to that, we were featured in a PittWire article!
Check out our PittWire article here: https://www.pittwire.pitt.edu/news/beloved-med-school-tradition-lives
We would love to have you all take part in our production by submitting a dedication.
If you would like to include a dedication in our playbill, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/wYovtQq4PGmeb6v76
As always, stay healthy and safe!
Scope and Scalpel 2021
Thank you to all who have donated and/or shared our project with your friends and family members- your support has been wonderful! Today marks the halfway point of our campaign! We hope that you will continue to support this project and follow along as we bring this production to life. Today, we would like to introduce our three wonderful head choreographers!
Jackie Lee (She//Her) 
Head Choreographer
Fun Fact: She danced with her ballet studio in a performance at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, China. She had a solo in one of her favorite shows, Don Quixote.
Bio: Jackie grew up in Los Angeles, where she trained in ballet, contemporary, and hip hop dance until she graduated high school. She came to Pittsburgh in 2012 for undergrad where she studied Biology/Neuroscience and went on to complete a master’s in Health Care Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University. She was a director, choreographer, and dancer for Dancers’ Symposium at CMU and loved organizing dance shows each semester. Jackie is pursuing a residency in Internal Medicine and aspires to be a future nephrologist.
Carly Heck (She/Her)
Head Choreographer
Fun fact: I was named after my dad, Carl Heck!
Bio: Carly grew up in the middle of nowhere (Tunkhannock), PA. She then voyaged across the state to Penn State (We Are!) for undergrad, graduating with a degree in Biology. She’s been dancing since the age of 4 and went on to perform and choreograph for Volé The Penn State Ballet Club during her time in college. Carly loves to cook pasta for every meal, spend time with her son (dog) Finn, and tolerate the outdoors with her couple’s match partner Matt. She was thrilled to choreograph again for Scope & Scalpel along with her fellow Head Choreographers Rishab and Jackie. She has loved Pittsburgh so much that she’ll be sticking around for her pediatric residency! You might even see her again soon as a bubbly, know-it-all researcher…
Rishab Humar (He/Him)
Head Choreographer
Fun Fact: He once danced in a music video for an artist in -14 degree weather thinking he’d become famous… he got frostbite instead of famous.
Bio: Rishab grew up in Minneapolis, MN and moved to Pittsburgh where he attended both undergrad and medical school at the University of Pittsburgh. He started dancing at the age of 5 when he and his friends would volunteer to dance in local charity shows organized by his church. Since then, his interests in dance have grown exponentially and is now heavily experienced in dance styles of Hip-Hop, Bollywood, and Bhangra. He started and captained a competitive Bollywood Fusion dance team in undergrad which is now in its 7th year. He was also on a competitive Bhangra Dance team in undergrad and medical school which placed first at competitions nationwide. He was more than happy to choreograph for Scope and Scalpel and perform once again. Rishab is ecstatic to be starting his career in Cardiac Surgery this July.
Hello Scope and Scalpel fans,
Thank you to all our donors and supporters! We have officially reached 23% of our goal! This week marks significant progression in our preparations. The cast has been diligently working to memorize their lines and songs, the choreographers are perfecting their 5, 6, 7, 8, and in person rehearsals are just around the corner. Keep checking our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages for more behind-the-scenes footage and photos. As a reminder, Scope and Scalpel 2021 will be held on Friday May 21st and Sunday May 23rd. We will have more details regarding location, live-streaming, and tickets in the upcoming weeks.
Stay healthy and safe,
Scope and Scalpel 2021
Thank you to all who have donated so far! We had a great second week of fundraising and we have reached 15% of our goal with $1,571! Any donation amount will help us produce this show, so if you haven’t donated yet please consider doing so today!
In the past two weeks, we have completed writing and casting the show! The entire cast met virtually last week to do our first read-through of the script, and we are so excited to bring this story to you. During our meeting, students shared ideas for props/costumes, coordinators went over logistics for the show, and plans for future rehearsals were made. It was great to have so many members of our class turn out to begin work on this production!
This week we’d like to introduce two of our amazing student leaders, Valerie Gobao, Head Writer, and Melanie Levine, Stage Manager!
Valerie Gobao (She/Her)
Head Writer
Fun Fact: She's an avid DIY-er! Her upcoming project before starting residency will be refinishing a cabinet she found on the street.
Bio: Val grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, PA with no siblings and several cats. She graduated from Boston University in 2016 with a degree in Cell/Molecular Biology and Spanish Language/Literature. All of that studying and essay writing got in the way of her little-known hobby of writing and creating "comedic" videos about historical figures, which you may or may not be able to find on YouTube. She is an avid reader of fiction, a TV connoisseur, and loves a good story. Writing Scope and Scalpel with the team has been a blast and a welcome creative outlet during this challenging year. She is going into Internal Medicine and hopes to be a primary care doctor and medical educator.
Melanie Levine (She/Her)
Stage Manager
Fun fact: She's an avid swing dancer and would go out dancing every Friday night throughout college.
Bio: Melanie is a native Pittsburgher and grew up less than 10 minutes away from the glorious Scaife Hall. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2016 where she studied Molecular and Cellular Biology and also took a bunch of classes in math and cosmology. She spent all of her time there running the campus newspaper, but she's always loved musicals and there's a sliding doors version of her college years where she got intensely involved with the theater groups instead. Needing a break after the nonstop college newspaper life, she then spent a year working at the Pittsburgh City Council before finally starting at Pitt Med. Melanie is pursuing a career in Obstetrics & Gynecology, with interests in LGBTQ health, abortion care, gynecologic surgery, and medical education.
Thanks for catching up with us, and check out our social media pages on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to follow our progress!
Love,
Scope and Scalpel 2021
Today is Match Day—a very exciting and monumental day in our journey to become physicians. Today we found out the residency location we have been “matched” to and will be spending our next 3-7 years in training. While our celebrations will be separate in terms of location, we are very much together in spirit and energy. Congratulations to all our Pitt Med graduating students and to medical students across the country.
Today also marks a special day for Scope and Scalpel: it is theme reveal day! Have you been anxiously awaiting this years’ theme? So have we! Drumroll please… the Pitt Med 2021 Scope and Scalpel show theme is:
The Breakfast Scrubs Present: Cramilton?
It’s a writer’s room unlike you’ve ever seen before! Follow five medical students with five VERY different personalities as they are tasked with the impossible: picking a theme for Scope and Scalpel. Join them as they navigate the hardships of a pandemic, the craziness of clerkships, and the mayhem of the Match!
Filled with amazing songs, beloved characters, and classic medical school stories, our show is sure to entertain. We need your support to make the show the best it can be! Thanks to all who have shared our campaign or donated to our fundraiser thus far!
Take care and stay healthy!
Scope and Scalpel 2021
Your dreams are big, and so is that stack of MCAT prep books. $10 will buy us one snazzy prop or the perfect missing piece to a cast member’s costume change.
We know you’re balancing studying for boards with working on the wards and generally just trying to survive. Why not throw some of that hard-earned loan money our way? $25 can feed and hydrate our writing team for a whole night’s worth of work. Nice!
Not only do you double-check our Is/Os, correct our vital signs in our presentations, co-sign our orders, and shield us from pimping on rounds, you also slide us a cool $50 bill to help us plaster the medical school in beautiful Scope and Scalpel playbills. You’re the best! Sincerely, your fourth-year medical students.
With great power comes great responsibility. No more notes, but you have to know everything about every patient and keep the team happy too! Cheer up your medical students with a $100 donation to help us purchase all the make-up and hair supplies we need.
Your medical students have meticulously calculated the CHA2DS2-VASc, Cockcraft-Gault, MELD, HAS-BLED, FENa, Wells’, Child-Pugh and Centor scores for all your patients. Increase their score by donating $250 to feed our cast and crew for dress rehearsal night!
Now that you’re in charge of recruiting, you know what it takes to put together a good team. Ensure we have the best team possible with your $500 donation and rent our much-needed microphones and sound equipment for show weekend.
As chair, you’re the MVP of your department. Be the MVP of Scope and Scalpel with a $750 donation and provide all of the costumes for our large group numbers!
While only a four-letter word, the title of dean carries so much power...respect...fame! (or infamy?) A contribution of $1000 will pay for the set design and construction for our major scenes, and let’s face it, there’s no show without a good backdrop!
