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
LGBT in Med School
Short Coats Rob Humble and Claire Castaneda are joined by new co-hosts Mitchell Hooyer and Jeremy Sanchez to talk about their personal experiences as members of the LGBT community while studying medi…
01:09:41 |
Thu 06 Dec 2018
Recess Rehash: Poor: a deadly diagnosis in America, ft. Sarah Smarsh
This past week, the Carver College of Medicine hosted its 12th annual Examined Life Conference. Our featured presenter, journalist and memoirist Sarah Smarsh, grew up in a family of farmers and teen…
01:02:39 |
Thu 29 Nov 2018
Recess Rehash: Bonus Episode! Why You Might Want an MD/PhD
The MD isn't the only degree offered by many medical schools. For those who get excited about data, research, and advancing medical knowledge, you can add a Doctor of Philosophy degree. Of course, …
01:24:19 |
Thu 22 Nov 2018
Getting there from here, a novel recipe, and future projects
[We’re now available on Spotify and RadioPublic!]
Co-hosts Tim Maxwell, Aline Sandouk, Annie Rempel, and Mackenzie Walhof confront pictures of their younger selves and offer themselves the advice the…
00:55:38 |
Thu 15 Nov 2018
An Episode of Questionable Things
As medical science progresses, it not only answers questions but generates even more. Listener Tyler pointed out a study (now on hold) that proposes to withhold the current standard of care for vict…
00:53:01 |
Thu 08 Nov 2018
Poor: a deadly diagnosis in America, ft. Sarah Smarsh
This past week, the Carver College of Medicine hosted its 12th annual Examined Life Conference. Our featured presenter, journalist and memoirist Sarah Smarsh, grew up in a family of farmers and teen…
01:02:39 |
Thu 01 Nov 2018
Hit By A Bus
Our newest co-host has already had a taste of fame. Abby Fyfe joins the crew this time, along with Aline Sandouk, Jayden Bowen, and Aditi Patel. Turns out, Abby is an old hand at being internet famo…
01:06:08 |
Fri 26 Oct 2018
Nebraska has questions.
Jennifer Andersen, a sociology PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, teaches a course called Sociology of Health and Health Care. She reached out to us to propose that her students woul…
01:23:11 |
Thu 18 Oct 2018
Listeners Revolt!
We love listener feedback...even when it's negative. And this whole obesity thing is really great for generating negative listener feedback. For instance, Marlene thought our comments on nutrition w…
00:46:30 |
Thu 11 Oct 2018
Bonus Episode! Why You Might Want an MD/PhD
The MD isn't the only degree offered by many medical schools. For those who get excited about data, research, and advancing medical knowledge, you can add a Doctor of Philosophy degree. Of course, …
01:24:19 |
Tue 09 Oct 2018
Ambien Dreams
This week, listener Jen sent us an article from JAMA in which the author bemoans his tendency to let the electronic health record (coupled with his data-entry difficulties) dominate his attention at …
00:46:47 |
Thu 04 Oct 2018
Bonus Episode! Palliative Care: A Perspective from A Land Where It Barely Exists, ft. Dr. MR Rajagopal
In most of India, palliative care--a medical specialty focused on improving the quality of life of people with life-limiting or disabling diseases--is available to only 1% of people who need it. But…
00:46:30 |
Tue 02 Oct 2018
What Skinny Doctors Don’t Get About Their Obese Patients
Fifi Trixiebell (not her real name) wrote to [email protected] asking us to discuss what medical students learn about nutrition, and whether they think the keto diet is just another fad. Lucki…
00:50:19 |
Thu 27 Sep 2018
Are physicians hopeless in the face of the obesity epidemic?
Listener Hannah wrote in after shadowing physicians, noting that many of the morbidly obese patients she observed resisted their doctors' advice to lose weight. Is there any hope that doctors can tr…
00:58:35 |
Thu 20 Sep 2018
Is AOA racially biased?
Aline Sandouk, Jayden Bowen, Aditi Patel, and newbie Madeline Slater are on hand to answer listener questions, such as J's query about the utility of post-bacc programs for med school applicants, and…
00:57:46 |
Thu 13 Sep 2018
Man Ovens, Shoring Up Weaknesses, and Ditching the MCAT
Activia (not her actual name, though it probably should be. Feel free to take that name, anonymous caller) emailed us at [email protected] to ask whether she should retake her physics classes (w…
00:52:41 |
Thu 06 Sep 2018
Owning a Visible Disability during Med School Interviews
On today's show, we'll answer a question from listener Victoria about having a feeding tube during med school interviews--should she worry that it will make her look weak and infirm, and thus not a g…
00:51:46 |
Sun 02 Sep 2018
A Crucial Health Professions Pipeline Pt. 2
Our visit with pre-health students in the Carver College of Medicine's Summer Health Professions Education Program continues as co-host Teneme Konne talks with SHPEPers Asjah Coleman, Kirsten Grismer…
00:52:11 |
Thu 23 Aug 2018
Recess Rehash: Emily Silverman, MD, and The Nocturnists
The day-to-day of internship, residency, and an MD career doesn't allow much time to process the effect it's having on the practitioner. Rushing from one patient to the next, putting out the fires e…
00:50:29 |
Thu 16 Aug 2018
SHPEP: A Crucial Healthcare Professions Pipeline
The Summer Health Professions Education Program, SHPEP, has become a summer tradition at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Students from around the country participate in SHPEP’s go…
01:04:03 |
Thu 09 Aug 2018
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