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
What Does “Perfect” Mean in Med School?
Why perfect isn’t always the goal
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: that h…
01:13:44 |
Thu 01 Aug 2024
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 joining the tuition free bandwagon thank…
00:53:12 |
Thu 25 Jul 2024
AITA? Probably!
Sometimes everyone’s a jerk. The hosts discuss the importance of self-evaluation in medicine, but sometimes you just gotta ask–was I a jerk? Dave Etler, MD/PhD student Miranda Schene, M4 Happy Kumar…
01:09:38 |
Thu 18 Jul 2024
How Med Students Do Long Distance Relationships
LIstener Neurotic Premed dropped us a message at https://theshortcoat.com/tellus to ask what medical students in long-distance relationships, both platonic and romantic, do to keep them alive and hea…
00:53:36 |
Thu 11 Jul 2024
Small Towns, Big Impact: Rural Medicine ft. Peter Kaboli, MD (Recess Rehash)
M1 Fallon Jung, PA1 Olivia Quinby, MD/PhD student Faith Prochaska, M2 Jeff Goddard, and special guest Dr. Peter Kaboli dive deep into the heart of rural medicine. We kick off with a candid discussion…
00:57:12 |
Thu 04 Jul 2024
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 what factors really determine which medi…
00:53:15 |
Thu 27 Jun 2024
Programs that will pay for medical school (and one thing not to do)
Listener Eden is looking ahead to how she'll finance medical school as someone who is in the disadvantaged category of applicants. One option she asked us to talk about is the Health Professions Scho…
00:54:06 |
Thu 20 Jun 2024
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 subreddit exists. M2 Holly Hemann bro…
01:09:10 |
Thu 13 Jun 2024
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 methods and reduce insurance coverage for …
00:53:48 |
Thu 06 Jun 2024
Does the Medical Profession Glorify Misery?
On this episode we welcome guest Dr. Joshua Trebach, an emergency medicine physician here at Iowa. This past spring he posted on X that medicine must "lose the mentality of thinking its okay to be m…
01:15:19 |
Thu 30 May 2024
Against the Odds: First-Generation in Medicine
It's easy to forget from our ivory tower that many Americans don’t get beyond high school, making it less likely their kids will. Those kids who do are at a disadvantage compared to peers with colleg…
01:17:32 |
Thu 23 May 2024
Worms, Fears, and Beethoven’s Ears
Its Our monthly roundup of news from the margins of medicine! M1s Fallon Jung and Taryn O’Brien, M2 Jeff Goddard, and MD/PhD studnet Riley Behan Bush are on hand for our monthly news roundup. Includi…
01:10:29 |
Thu 16 May 2024
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 hot take is a position taken in order …
01:00:41 |
Thu 09 May 2024
3 ways medicine changed this week
M1s Fallon Jung and Alex Nigg, M2 Jeff Goddard, and MD/PhD student Riley Behan Bush hear listener Megan's request for more news on critical healthcare changes from our overlords in the courts and the…
01:00:16 |
Thu 02 May 2024
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 Students With Disabilities and Chronic Illne…
01:19:27 |
Thu 25 Apr 2024
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 episode, with MD/PhD students Madi Wahlen and …
01:05:09 |
Thu 18 Apr 2024
The PERFECT specialty? Occupational Medicine ft. Matthew Kiok, MD, MPH
Occupational Medicine offers 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 those care…
00:55:18 |
Thu 11 Apr 2024
Traits to Treat: Personality in Medicine
Are you better off as a surgeon or in palliative care? MD/PhD student Jacqueline Nielsen, M2 Hend Al-Kaylani, and M1 Fallon Jung play with personality to see if their path toward choosing the right m…
00:59:02 |
Thu 04 Apr 2024
Small Towns, Big Impact: Rural Medicine ft. Peter Kaboli, MD
M1 Fallon Jung, PA1 Olivia Quinby, MD/PhD student Faith Prochaska, M2 Jeff Goddard, and special guest Dr. Peter Kaboli dive deep into the heart of rural medicine. We kick off with a candid discussion…
00:57:12 |
Thu 28 Mar 2024
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 to report abuse. She left us a message …
00:55:15 |
Thu 21 Mar 2024
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