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
Good Advice: Wrong Answers Only
The advice students get from mentors, peers, and advisors isn’t always good.
This episode is sponsored by Panacea Financial, a division of Sonabank, member FDIC. Pa…
In Med School We Trust. or not.
When should med students trust their school…and when should they push back?
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What Jobs to Med Students Actually Do in their clerksh?
The medical student’s jobs may be less than sexy, but they’re important.
Medical students are both learners and an important part of the teaching hospital labo…
DROWNING IN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Doing stuff outside of your coursework is fantastic…until it isn’t.
Listener Tasneem Ahmed–a fourth-year medic…
Is Medicine A Calling, or a Job?
Which take on medicine is best for patients and provider mental health?
Dave and the gang–including M1s AJ Chowdhury and Alex Belzer; M4 Holly Conger; and MD/PhD student Aline Sandouk–take a l…
What You Should Tell Your FAmily About Med School
How they can help, support, and understand what you’re doing here.
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MD or DO: What is the Difference?
Are you an allopath or an osteopath?
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Recess Rehash: Microaggressions: preparing to experience, witness, and commit them
Recess Rehash: This Student’s Shame is Changing Our Curriculum
[Happy New Year! We are taking a break from recording, and our next new show is out on January 14. In the meantime, enjoy this rerun. This episode was sponsored by Pattern. We hope you’ll check ou…
Vaccine Fever
Happy Holidays!
As we recorded this show, vaccine doses were beginning to spread across the world–well, across the rich countries of the world, anyway. The poorer countries were left with the…
Recess Rehash: Liver Bits, Cold Glocks, and Cancer of the Cancer
[Last week’s show encountered some technical difficulties. So enjoy this rerun instead. We promise it’s cool.]
“He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.”
Co-hosts Na…
AMA: Racism is a Public health Threat. SCP Co-hosts: Gosh, really?
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In mid-November, the American Medi…
Recess Rehash: When Doctors Do Harm ft. Danielle Ofri, MD
Hippocrates set a high bar.
[Hope your Thanksgiving was excellent, safe, and happy! We didn’t record anything this week, so here’s a rerun for you.]
Dr. Danielle Ofri–NYU professor of medicine…
Quality over Quantity: Clinical Experiences and Volunteering in COVID Times
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What About Choosing the Cheapest Medical School?
Given how much med school costs, isn’t it best to go for your cheapest option?
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To Leave or Not To Leave
Should Jenna broaden her horizons by moving away for medical school?
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The Power and Perils of Prestige in Med Ed
Name recognition is great, but it’s not all it’s cracked up to be.
Listener Morgan wrote in to ask what we thought about Ivy League schools with high name recognition, and whether it …
Choosing Your Clinical Education: Community Hospital or Academic Medical Center?
On this episode, M2s Nathen Spitz and Sahaana Arumugam, M3 Emma Barr, and MD/PhD student Aline Sandouk reminisce about simpler Halloween times, when the only thing to worry ab…
Md/PhD worries: Transitioning to the Lab
Next semester Madi Wahlen will enter the PhD phase of her MD/PhD journey, and the though to that transition makes her kind of nervous. Fortunately, both she and Aline Sandouk were on this week’…
On Top or Down Low: The Status Hierarchies in Medicine ft. Tania Jenkins, PhD
What you should know about the super hierarchical world of medicine
Have you ever wondered what the world of medicine would look like to an ethnographer? To University of North Carolina Chape…