Any current or past Indy MS1/MS2 students on here? What does your daily lecture/lab/group work schedule look like?
It depends on the class. Overall, you will have 26 contact hours per week, with ~6 of those being Foundations of Clinical Practice ("how to be a doctor" class) and the other 20 being your science or organ block classes. Each class averages out to 50% lecture and 50% non-didactic. For your first semester, you will have Transitions I, an intro class with some stats and some communication stuff for the first two weeks (at least we did). Then the rest of the semester, you will have 6 hours/week FCP, 10 hrs/wk Human Structure (anatomy), and 10 hrs/wk Molecules to Cells and Tissues. An example of a typical week for me during first semester:
Monday: 9-11 FCP lecture; 1-3 HS lecture; 1-5 HS lab
Tuesday: 1-3 MCT lecture; 3-5 MCT small group (TBL or PBL)
Wednesday: 8-12 FCP small group; 1-3 MCT lecture; 3-5 HS lab
Thursday: 1-3 MCT lecture; 3-5 MCT small group
Friday: 1-3 HS lecture; 3-5 HS lab
The schedule varies, especially on exam weeks, but you can expect to have afternoon class every day and morning stuff 1-3 days per week. Lecture attendance is no longer mandatory. Second semester, you start organ blocks, and each class comes up with its own way to divide lecture and non-lecture, but it still averages out to no more than 50% lecture per block.