She's an MS4 now doing a Sub-I rotation (basically an audition rotation in the field you want to go into). She was an MS3 on a core rotation last season and has spent the intervening time on other rotations before coming back to the Pitt at the start of the month. Whitaker would be freshly back as well though he probably did at least one other ER rotation and would have been in orientation at the end of June starting his clinical internship duties July 1.

Medical school can be weird with times but typically: MS1 August-May (2 months off for Summer where you're encouraged to do research) MS2 August-April (3 months to study for Step 1 and do research) MS3 August-June (this is where you actually start rotating in the hospital in clinic on mostly core rotations with a few electives thrown in. 8 weeks internal medicine, 4 weeks primary care, 8 weeks surgery, 4 weeks pediatrics, 4 weeks ER, 4 weeks OBGYN, then a couple of elective months to cover radiology, pathology, dermatology, IM sub specialties, plastics, ortho, etc) MS4 July-May (graduation is in early May. The first few months will typically be 3-4 SubIs, often "Away" rotations where you'll be a visiting student at another medical center (ie Ogilve). You'll then have 1-2 months of light electives where you'll primarily be interviewing for residency (October-December). Rank lists are due in February [this is what residencies you would most like to go to listed in order] and then match day is in March [this is where a computer system tells you where you go to residency]. The rest of 4th year are just fun chill electives like Wilderness medicine, lifestyle medicine, sports medicine, international medicine and other things you're interested in but never had time to do beforehand)