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Pre-Op Outdoor Experience MSI Incoming Students

Wilderness Orientation Office  (858) 534-8211 | wo@ucsd.edu

Register Here

Start your new life here at UCSD off with an awesome camping trip with your fellow incoming medical students.

The trip is a chance to get to know your new community while having fun in the outdoors. You will learn inside information about life at med school, camp out under the mountain stars, share campfire stories, experience the campus’s challenge course, go on hikes, play games, make new friends, and just have a blast before school starts.

The trip is subsidized by UCSD and is just $70 for incoming med students.  The trip includes almost everything; transportation, entrance fee to all parks, food, all group equipment including tents, stoves, cooking gear, and more. You just need to bring your clothes and a sleeping bag & pad (or rent them cheaply from our outdoor gear rental shop). The trip is run by UCSD Recreation-Outback Adventures and the School Of Medicine’s second year students.

“This is probably the best thing I could have done to prepare myself for school. It was awesome to surround myself with great people especially when I was going through such a big transition.” – Current SOM student

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All our participants are required to fill out our online forms. Current emergency contact and medical information must be provided. We will email all registered participants a link to the form in the upcoming weeks.

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If you have questions, please contact Outback Adventures staff at 858-534-8211 or wo@ucsd.edu. You can also contact the Student Life office at somorient@ucsd.edu. We look forward to seeing you in August!

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