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
Should you consider romance when selecting a med school?
The Short Coats discuss their perspective on how med school can test a romance, and what role it should play in the selection of a school to attend.
00:52:32 |
Fri 16 Mar 2018
Lack of Empathy: A Med School Dealbreaker?
The Short Coats propose some paths forward for non-empathetic med school applicants, as well as outlining some of the less obvious areas empathy comes in handy they might want to think about
00:59:10 |
Thu 08 Mar 2018
Another Student Fights Mental Illness Stigma
One of the things we Short Coats agree on is that the stigma medical students and physicians face when dealing with mental illness must end. We are people, too, and thus are subject to the full rang…
00:45:20 |
Thu 01 Mar 2018
Recess Rehash: Bropocalypse 2017
Dave found himself with another group of women co-hosting the show, so what better time to talk about #MeToo and the powerful people being taken down by their sexual harassment and abuse of others. …
00:48:28 |
Thu 22 Feb 2018
Med Student Parents, Part 2 | Plan for Debt but Don’t Worry
Can Courtney succeed in med school despite the demands of motherhood? We ask a mom who did it. And, how med students can erase debt fast.
00:49:49 |
Thu 15 Feb 2018
How Med Student Parents Make It Happen
In the first of a two-part answer to listener Courtney's question, Dr. Tom McNalley (MD '04) joins the gang to assure her that it is possible to be a parent of three small children while studying med…
01:07:03 |
Thu 08 Feb 2018
Tales from the Clinic: from Theory to Practice
We revisit this weeks' co-hosts fears of moving into the clinical curriculum--were their fears realized? The US's largest health insurance company is sick of their patients' bullshit. Needle exchang…
00:57:19 |
Thu 01 Feb 2018
Refusing to Treat: A Collision of Medicine and Conscience
During Human Rights Week at the Carver College of Medicine, we heard some hard truths from national news commentator, human rights activist, and podcaster Angela Rye. In her speech to the College of …
00:53:24 |
Thu 25 Jan 2018
Checking the Boxes: Should You Give Up Your Job To Do Research?
Annie wrote in to [email protected] to ask Kaci McCleary, Erik Kneller, Gabriel Conley, and Marissa Evers if she should give up her 10-year job as a radiology tech so she'd have time to do rese…
01:09:37 |
Thu 18 Jan 2018
Making Clerkships Work
The second-year students are moving from the pre-clinical curriculum to the clerkships this week. This transition is exciting--after all, seeing patients is what they've come to medical school to do…
00:46:16 |
Thu 11 Jan 2018
Taking Advice is Hard To Do
Listener Arman calls back to thank us for some good advice we gave him on continuing his hobbies and interests outside medical school! Nevertheless, he notes how difficult it often is to take advice…
00:55:01 |
Thu 04 Jan 2018
Winter Break, Guts and Brains, and Yahoo! Answers
It's winter break at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. For most people, that means there are a couple weeks to relax and rejuvenate their minds, bodies, and familial relations. Des…
01:00:58 |
Thu 28 Dec 2017
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