Extracting buckshot from a hunter’s head in a mosquito-infested tent at the edge of a swamp before your morning coffee isn’t the best way to start your day. But that’s reality when you sign up at Hard Rock Medical, the fictional medical school modeled on a real Canadian Medical school in the Canadian Shield region. Instructed by a charismatic and diverse medical faculty, eight students are initiated into medicine in the most "hands on" way possible.