Med School Stereotypes Shattered: What We’re Really Like Inside

The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School · Oct 30, 2025 · 1h 3m

Turns out medical students are regular humans who happen to need to memorize the Krebs cycle. We’ve all got that mental image of medical students – the type-A perfectionists grinding through textbooks even on the porcelain throne, right? Well, our first-year medical students at Iowa are about to blow up every assumption you’ve ever had. Turns out the people memorizing a zillion anatomical structures aren’t exactly who you’d expect. M1s Chase McInville, Lillian Schmidt, Jonah Albrecht, and Abbie Townsend reveal why your pre-med study plans are probably useless, how a hockey ref’s confidence…