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The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
The HONEST guide to medical school, featuring real students from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine–skip this show if you’d rather not know (and hate laughter)!
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- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
What Does “Perfect” Mean in Med School?
Listener Noah wrote to us from the UK asking–among other things–how he could flourish when he starts medical school. One statement caught our eye, however…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Stem Cell Shenanigans, Hopkins Hype, and Buxton’s Bravery
This week, M3 Jeff Goddard, M2 Taryn O’Brien, and MD/PhD student Riley Behan Bush are on hand to discuss July’s news. First, it’s hard to ignore Johns Hopkins…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
AITA? Probably!
Sometimes everyone’s a jerk. Self-evaluation is important, especially in medicine, but sometimes you just gotta ask–was I a jerk? Dave Etler, MD/PhD student…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
How Med Students Do Long Distance Relationships
It’s all about the plan! Listener Neurotic Premed dropped us a message at https://theshortcoat.com/tellus to ask what medical students in long-distance…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Small Towns, Big Impact: Rural Medicine ft. Peter Kaboli, MD (Recess Rehash)
Unique experiences and challenges of practicing medicine where everyone knows your name. M1 Fallon Jung, PA1 Olivia Quinby, MD/PhD student Faith Prochaska, M2…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
The Sheriff is Watching, Ft. Bryan Carmody, MD (Recess Rehash)
The Sheriff of Sodium investigates the state and future of medical training. If you’ve wondered how well the system that trains future doctors works, or about…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Programs that will pay for medical school (and one thing not to do)
[This episode has visual content you might find more enjoyable using YouTube Music, where you can listen with your phone in your pocket as usual, but then…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
If you’re asking, you might be the a**hole
Life’s grey areas, offered up for internet discussion! Sometimes, you need someone to tell you if you’ve crossed the line. That’s why Reddit’s Am I The A**hole…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
New Women’s Health Restrictions?
Project 2025 is the name of a project that hopes to serve as a blueprint for a future conservative administration that would promote natural family planning…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Does the Medical Profession Glorify Misery?
[This episode is sponsored by Beginly Health https://beginlyhealth.com/shortcoat. The Beginly platform matches physicians and APPs with employers with complete…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Against the Odds: First-Generation in Medicine
It’s hard to become a doctor when you’ve never met one. It’s sometimes easy to forget from the ivory tower that relatively few American’s have, or take, the…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Worms, Fears, and Beethoven’s Ears
[This episode is sponsored by Beginly Health, at http://beginlyhealth.com/shortcoat. Whether you're actively searching or casually exploring job opportunities…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Med School is SIMPLE?! (Recess Rehash)
“I honestly have had the most relaxing time I’ve had in forever, and for anybody who’s like, that’s ridiculous, just wait.” The most charitable definition of a…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
3 ways medicine changed this week
From classroom to exam room, what you need to know. [This episode is sponsored by Beginly Health. https://www.beginlyhealth.com/shortcoat Whether you’re…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Disability in Medicine: The Every Day Struggle
Medicine isn’t always kind to its disabled practitioners, but let’s change that. In 2023, a group of Iowa med students founded our chapter of the Medical…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Shocking betrayals, sure fire blindness, niche community drama
It’s a freestyle episode…can’t we just have a rambling conversation? Sometimes it’s nice to just sit down and have a rambling conversation. That’s this…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
The PERFECT specialty? Occupational Medicine ft. Matthew Kiok, MD, MPH
A great lifestyle, scope mix, and early-career satisfaction. Matthew Kiok, MD, MPH tells us he’s found the perfect specialty. Occupational Medicine is one of…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Traits to Treat: Personality in Medicine
Tailoring your medical career to fit your personality? Are you better off as a surgeon or in palliative care? MD/PhD student Jacqueline Nielsen, M2 Hend…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Small Towns, Big Impact: Rural Medicine ft. Peter Kaboli, MD
Unique experiences and challenges of practicing medicine where everyone knows your name. M1 Fallon Jung, PA1 Olivia Quinby, MD/PhD student Faith Prochaska, M2…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Listener asks: What does Patient Advocacy Look Like? (Recess Rehash)
Speaking up for your patients will have profound impacts. Short Coat Savannah’s previous work in mental health settings exposed her to situations where she had…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
A Med School “cocktail” party (no party sounds)
Dave hosts a weird cocktail party for his co-hosts, M1s Fallon Jung and Taryn O'Brian, MD/PhD student Jacqueline Nielson, and M3 Chirayu Shukla. The group…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
A Med School “cocktail” party
Dave hosts a weird cocktail party for his co-hosts, M1s Fallon Jung and Taryn O'Brian, MD/PhD student Jacqueline Nielson, and M3 Chirayu Shukla. The group…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
The Sheriff is Watching, Ft. Bryan Carmody, MD
The Sheriff of Sodium investigates the state and future of medical training. If you’ve wondered how well the system that trains future doctors works, or about…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
the Exam Table and Beyond: The Role of a Family Doctor
An alumni of CCOM and SCP returns to prove: you can do it! MD/PhD student Miranda Schene, M2 Jeff Goddard, and M1 Fallon Jung visit with alumni Teneme Konne…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Bias, Baby Heads, and Memes
Understanding others begins with asking questions. M3 Jacob Hansen, and M1s Taryn O’Brien, Alex Nigg, and Fallon Jung consider recent studies highlighting the…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Love, Lobsters, and Loans: The Just Married Game
In the world of medicine, finding time for love is both an art and a science. Happy Valentines Day! MD/PhD student Faith Prochaska, and M1s Taryn O’Brien and…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Med School is SIMPLE?!
“I honestly have had the most relaxing time I’ve had in forever, and for anybody who’s like, that’s ridiculous, just wait.” The most charitable definition of a…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Sleeper Specialty: Medicine Psychiatry ft. Andrea Weber, MD, MME
“A nice re-imagining of how healthcare could be delivered.” It’s another sleeper specialty episode! This time we’re visiting with Andrea Weber, MD, MME…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Sleeper specialty: Preventive Medicine ft. Silvia Caswell DO, MPH
Preventing disease and injury in life, the skies, and at work. It’s another sleeper specialty episode! This time we’re talking about a really low-key one…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Sleeper Specialty: Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Ft. Dr. Brittany Bettendorf
A relatively uncommon specialty can help move kids with childhood diseases to adult care. In another in our series on “sleeper specialties,” we visit with…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Why Having a Pet in Med School is a Good Idea (Recess Rehash)
They may not help us pass our exams…but they definitely have upsides A common question new medical students have is whether they should get a pet. Will they…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Hot Takes: Med School Edition (Part 1?) (Recess Rehash)
These might be very bad ideas…but we’ll talk about them anyway. Riley leads a discussion with Jeff, Levi, and Katie of unpopular opinions about medicine and…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Belief at the Bedside (Recess Rehash)
Faith is an important part of the human condition–let’s explore that. M1 Hend invited David Kozishek, a chaplain at the University of Iowa Hospitals and…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Classroom Challenges and Global Goals
What the first semester of medical school is actually like! Short Coat co-hosts Brian Young (M1), Jeff Goddard (M2), and Fallon Jung (M1) discussed the…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
What Medicine Really Needs from Artificial Intelligence, ft. Ilana Yurkiewicz (pt. 2)
Bringing the healthcare pieces together. Dr. Ilana Yurkiewicz, co-director of Stanford University’s Primary Care for Cancer Survivorship Program, author, and…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
How Studying Changes from Premed to Clnicals (Recess Rehash)
What you get away with as an undergrad won’t serve you in med school. M2s Jacob and Maddie, M4 Mason and new co-host PA2 Mark take us through how they changed…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
The Practicalities of Policy; Alex Trebot Returns
Democracy is messy! Dave declared this recording day to be “Effort Free Friday,” as it was officially Thanksgiving Break! That didn’t stop M1 Jeff Goddard from…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Top-notch Residents, Emergency Room Violence
The Critical Qualities to Ace Residency Interviews and Thrive in Medical Careers. A recent MedPage Today editorial shines a light on four traits that are…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Sleeper Specialties: Nuclear Medicine
Medicine, Work-Life Balance, and Physics, together at last. Dr. Michael Graham, a seasoned Nuclear Medicine practitioner and professor at the University of…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Piecing Together American Healthcare, ft. Dr. Ilana Yurkiewicz (Part 1)
We have GOT to get it together. What’s the best way to navigate a fragmented healthcare system? How are patients both the victims and unwitting custodians of…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Selfie-Diagnosis, Fentanyl Anti-Doses
Dave’s been seeing a lot of videos on social media that suggest “You might have {insert condition} if you {insert experience or behavior that most people have…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Health Is An Outfit That Looks Different On Every Body
Do docs and patients mean the same thing when they talk about ‘health?’ Fallon, Sri, Radha, and Kait discuss the concept of ‘health.’ What does healthy mean to…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
TB Eradication, mRNA Vindication
As tuberculosis is on the rise once again in this country, it remains *the* cause of death around the world. But thanks to fans of the famous vlogbrothers…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Med-Techbros, Shortage Woes, and Ig Nobel Probes
As another physician shortage looms, M2s Jeff and Olivia and M1 Fallon look at the reasons–the market forces, political issues, and the missing incentives…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Physician Assistants: From Clinic to O.R., Partners in Health
Physician Associate (formerly Physician Assistant) students learn the preclinical curriculum right along side their Doctor of Medicine colleagues here at Iowa…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
The Chains of Med Ed History, with Adam Rodman (Recess Rehash)
The beginning of the 20th century brought huge changes to medicine; we’re still trying to cope with them. Special guest, Dr. Adam Rodman, visits with M1s Jeff…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Mothers Deserve Better
[Content warning: this episode contains discussions of maternal mortality.] Maternal mortality doubled in the 21st Century. Motherhood is a revered institution…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Major vs. Medicine: How we Decided
How should Thomas choose between his great career options? We’ve all been there: faced with some good options, which one do we choose? Listener Thomas wrote in…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
AMA says “provider” is out; OB/Gyn ditches residency application they helped create
Why docs don’t like the word “provider,” and the surprise dealt to the AAMC by OB residency programs a Delaware-based health system, is taking a stand against…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
The Evolution of Acceptable
Why do we struggle to change when our world changes around us? Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum is beloved by its visitors. Styled as an homage to Victorian…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Are We More Empathetic than AI?
AI chatbots can help brainstorm ways to communicate more compassionately. We’ve talked about the study that found patients rated responses by the recent…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Dr. Paul Offit Continues The Fight Against Vaccine Misinformation
Meet one doctor working to counter once-fringe anti-vax conspiracy theorists. M2 Jeff Goddard invited internationally-renowned virology and immunology expert…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
jump right in or watch and learn: standing out In Clerkships
How do you choose between jumping in with both feet vs. watching and learning? Listener Jordan DM’d to say that she’s having trouble finding the right balance…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Breaking the Silence: Judge Rosemarie Aquilina on the Power of Trauma-Informed Care (Recess Rehash)
[A Note to Listeners: this episode features discussions of sex abuse, rape, and other crimes that many listeners will find disturbing.] Insights From the Bench…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Bad Advice is a Leaky Umbrella (Recess Rehash)
Recognizing good advice and discarding the bad is part of the admissions process. Aline has finished her PhD! She walks Jeff, Riley, and AJ through what…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
What Patient Advocacy Looks Like
Speaking up for your patients will have profound impacts. Short Coat Savannah’s previous work in mental health settings exposed her to situations where she had…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Race-Conscious Admissions Ends, Upends Schools’ Diversity Efforts
How will schools assemble student bodies that reflect society? The Supreme Court has struck down the use of race-conscious admissions practices–affirmative…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Brains Learning About Brains
Consciousness remains a final frontier of neuroscience and psychiatry…and even immunology M2s Trent Gilbert, Olivia Jenks, PA1 Faith Anton, and M4 Sarah…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
The True Value of Pre Med Shadowing
Think of it as education you don’t have to pay for! In an episode best described as…laid back?…calm?…sleepy?…Nicole, Alex, and Sarah discuss why those…
- The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
The Ethics of End-of-Life Care (Recess Rehash)
Decisions made at the end of life are among the most complicated. M1 Jeff, M3 Ananya, and MD/PhD students Riley and Miranda discuss what they’re taught about…