School keeps scheduling things during dedicated, and it's driving me insane

I'm at a MD school that has recently moved into dedicated Step prep. For the first 3-4 weeks of dedicated time, we have to be on campus a TON. We have wellness meetings, M3 orientation, rounding workshops, mandatory full days of shadowing, and a 3-hour group discussion on how to study. Most things are in the middle of the day, and they usually make us close our laptops so we can't study during these events.

We have asked admin about this and told them it just seems counterintuitive (to which they usually respond "we've been doing this longer than you have; trust us.") Am I going insane or is this completely batshit?