Generation X arrives at medical school to find changing expectations, growing pressures.

Students entering medical school today face a health care system that is vastly different from the one new students experienced in the 1970s and 1980s. Michael OReilly interviewed five first-year students from the University of Western Ontario to learn about the hopes and dreams of medicine's next generation and the pressures facing these students. The Class of '98 doesn't appear intimidated by the cutbacks practising physicians are facing. As one student put it, these students won't be yearning for the "good old days" because "we don't have any good old days to remember."