As members of “the first genuine class of the new millennium,” Smoker “czars” Jeremy Kaplan, Naz Siddiqui, Doug Franzen and Megan Schimpf proclaimed the 83rd annual Galens Smoker “unique amongst its peers, unthreatened by an actors’ or writers’ strike, and providing a brand of psychotherapy all its own.”

Wildly appreciative audiences at “Guys and Dolls’ Eyes,” drawn from classical Broadway fare written by Frank Loesser (and others), got total mental health overhauls at Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre on April 20-21 as they followed the machinations — medical, moral and other — of a cast of Smoker characters portraying U-M Medical School students and faculty reacting to the arrival of a producer and his crew vying to come up with the winning idea for a medical version of a “Survivor”-type TV show. Replete with romance, dramatic tension, social issues, dental dams and the Ortho Boys, “Guys and Dolls’ Eyes” also contained a cameo appearance by Medical School icon Neil Noland of the Office of Student Programs.

This year the Silver Shovel award, a tradition begun in 1937 by J. Robert Willson to “honor” popular teacher Fred Hodges, was presented to Raj Mangrulkar of Internal Medicine by last year’s winner, pathologist Andrew Flint.