The Short Coat: An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
The longest running med school podcast, The Short Coat features a variety cast of medical students from the University of Iowa, offering is a brutally honest look at medicine, med school, and what life is like here at the margins of medicine. Skip this show if you'd prefer not to know and hate laughter.
Our opinions and those of guests are definitely not those of the University of Iowa, the state of Iowa, or anyone else. Try not to get your stethoscope in a twist about it!
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 58 minutes
- Episodes
- 412
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
First author in an 8 week summer research project?
Research takes time, so what's a realistic outcome for the summer research student? Pipette LeGogettuer (not her real name) wrote in to ask for our input on her summer research plans. Not only is sh…
00:53:56 |
Thu 16 Jan 2020
Bonus Episode: The Lost Pre-Christmas Show
On a previous episode, Mason LaMarche discussed a college friend who had a habit of sketching his bowel movements. On this episode, his friend defends his artistic endeavor, while another LaMarche f…
00:52:58 |
Tue 14 Jan 2020
Recess Rehash: How to ADHD in Med School
[Happy Holidays! Dave is on vacation, but here's a re-run to tide you over. We'll be back with new episodes starting 1/16]
We on The Short Coat Podcast like to encourage people to follow their me…
01:11:27 |
Thu 09 Jan 2020
Recess Rehash: Choose a Specialty, Choose a Lifestyle: Factors We Consider
[Happy Holidays! Dave is on vacation, but here's a re-run to tide you over. We'll be back with new episodes starting 1/16]
Short Coat Scribbleson Wordsonpaper (not his real name) wrote a paper fo…
01:05:04 |
Thu 02 Jan 2020
Happy Holidays!
This episode comes out the day after Christmas, and is recorded the week before, so we're exploring what some describe as "the most wonderful time of the year," and what others describe as Thursday. …
00:50:47 |
Thu 26 Dec 2019
Your patients’ stories will sustain you in your darkest hours (bonus ft. Dr. John Mrachek)
On this bonus episode of The Short Coat, we hear from Dr. John Mrachek. Dr. Mrachek is an anesthesiologist of 17 years who reached out to us at Iowa because he'd long felt a wedge being driven betwe…
00:52:07 |
Tue 17 Dec 2019
Freezing Development to Help Care for the Disabled (ft. Dr. Ryan Gray)
The amazing Dr. Ryan Gray, host of quite a few of the pre-med focused podcasts over at mededmedia.com (of which we, of course, are a member), joins Maddie Mix, Hillary O'Brien, Nick Lind, and Kyle Ki…
00:49:33 |
Thu 12 Dec 2019
Study Tips, Annoying Hics, and Fat Cloud Rips
A question from listener Blake--do we use Anki or Brainscape for studying?--led to a discussion of the various tools and techniques Aline Sandouk (MD/PhD student), Nick Lind, Madeline Cusimano, and M…
01:04:23 |
Thu 05 Dec 2019
Turkey, Telomerase, and Time-Turning Trauma Treatment
FYI, there's new merch for charity (stickers!) at at theshortcoat.com/store! Happy Thanksgiving, bishes! It's Thanksgiving Day in the United States of America, and as we 'muricans collapse on our so…
00:47:35 |
Thu 28 Nov 2019
Microaggressions: preparing to experience, witness, and commit them
Good intentions are everywhere. Good behavior...well, that's more complicated. Such is the case with microaggressions, the term coined by Harvard University psychiatrist Chester Pierce in 1970 to d…
00:50:38 |
Thu 21 Nov 2019
How to ADHD in Med School
We on The Short Coat Podcast like to encourage people to follow their med school dreams in spite of whatever apparent obstacles stand in the way. So when we found out that Jessica McCabe, host of th…
01:11:27 |
Thu 07 Nov 2019
Spooky Med Student Stories!
Today's show features multiple screams, so don't freak out. Because it's Halloweeeeeeeen! Co-hosts Hillary O'Brien, Jenna Johnson, Elizabeth Shirazi, and newbie Erica Noyes (all M1s) tell their sca…
00:57:21 |
Thu 31 Oct 2019
Standing Out by Presenting at Conferences
Second year students Abby Fyfe, Mason LaMarche, and Madeline Cusimano offer their advice to first-year Morgan Kennedy, who confesses that she's feeling the burn of being an M1. And Mason discusses t…
01:07:50 |
Thu 24 Oct 2019
Choose a Specialty, Choose a Lifestyle: Factors We Consider
Short Coat Scribbleson Wordsonpaper (not his real name) wrote a paper for one of his classes, and was told it'd be worth putting it out there for publication. But where, and how? So we asked Writin…
01:05:04 |
Thu 17 Oct 2019
A Stitch In Time Saves Swine.
Two questions this week from Short Coats! Listener Luis wrote in to ask what books co-hosts Hillary O'Brien, Kylie Miller, Emma Barr and newbie Sahaana Arumugam consulted to find their paths. And M…
00:51:32 |
Thu 10 Oct 2019
Too Idealistic for Medicine?
Fourth-year students David Rudolph and Chandini Reddi join co-hosts Brendan George and LJ Agistonelli to answer listener Krista's question--a self-confessed "loud mouth" with radical thoughts about h…
00:59:03 |
Thu 03 Oct 2019
Get to Know the Nurse, Save Yourself from Grief
A cliche, of course, but true. Because without the nurses (and other people) doing their jobs to help the doctor, the doctor can't do nuthin'--no IVs, no regular BP checks, no comfortable patients, …
00:54:50 |
Thu 26 Sep 2019
Terms and Conditions Apply
Co-host and MD/PhD student Miranda Schene is a woman who has obviously been raised well. So when her mother, Ginny, wrote to [email protected] asking about the surprises med school had in stor…
00:56:37 |
Thu 19 Sep 2019
Medicine Has a DARK Past
Some of the most important contributions to knowledge have come at a terrible price. The BBC featured a story on their site about an anatomy atlas that was created by a Nazi doctor, and the images wi…
00:46:46 |
Thu 12 Sep 2019
Elders Need Docs Who Understand Them (ft. Louise Aronson, MD)
Elders are not just sickly adults. Ours is an aging society, and as the populations skews older, medicine has begun to realize that treating elder patients isn't the same as treating adults or childr…
00:58:42 |
Thu 05 Sep 2019
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