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
- 411
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Trends in Medicine and Med Ed ft. Medscape’s Jon McKenna
MD/PhD student Riley Behan-Bush, M4 Katie Higham-Kessler, and M3s Olivia Jenks and Elvira Nguepnang discuss 2024's trends and topics in healthcare and medical education with Medscape's Senior Editor …
01:03:48 |
Thu 05 Dec 2024
It’s Thanksgiving. Let’s “Help” People.
It's the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, so M4 Katie Higham-Kessler, PA2 Julie Vuong, and MD/PhD students Miranda Schene and Riley Behan-Bush give thanks to their future patients' for thei…
00:55:37 |
Thu 28 Nov 2024
Gross Anatomy: More Than Meets the Eye for Students
The First Patient Students Learn From. M1 students Emily Baniewicz, Zach Grissom, Srishti Mathur, and Sydney Skuodas share their experiences and insights on the gross anatomy lab experience--what man…
01:06:45 |
Thu 21 Nov 2024
Worms, Fears, and Beethoven’s Ears (Recess Rehash)
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 14 Nov 2024
MD and PA Students Aren’t Buying The Scope Creep Fight
Why are the AMA and the AAPA Fighting? PA2 Olivia Quinby, PA2 Raginya Handoo, PA2 Julie Vuong, and M4 Katie Higham-Kessler dig into the intense ‘scope creep’ debate between the American Medical Asso…
01:10:18 |
Thu 07 Nov 2024
Med-Techbros, Shortage Woes, and Ig Nobel Probes (Recess Rehash)
[We tried to put together a Halloween episode, but everyone was doing med school stuff. Rude. So enjoy this re-run!] As another physician shortage looms, M2s Jeff and Olivia and M1 Fallon look at th…
00:58:25 |
Thu 31 Oct 2024
AITA: We’re All Just Janky ChatGPTs
Dave is joined by MD/PhD student Miranda Schene, M1 Chase Larsson, M2 Radha Velamuri, M2 Fallon Jung, and M2 Holly Hemann for our monthly dip into relatable Reddit's 'Am I the Asshole' stories: Is it…
01:07:40 |
Thu 24 Oct 2024
Slapping together a Confident Med School Application List
Self-reflection is key to choosing what med schools to apply to. Listener Virginia dropped us a line at https://theshortcoat.com/tellus to ask us how she might go about selecting from the 195 med sch…
00:49:18 |
Thu 17 Oct 2024
Does the Medical Profession Glorify Misery? (Recess Rehash)
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 10 Oct 2024
Is Med School Impossible with a Serious Mental Illness?
[Content warning: this episode contains frank discussions of mental health and mentions suicide.]
Getting your support systems in order is key to success in med school with a mental health diagnosis…
01:02:31 |
Thu 10 Oct 2024
Physician Assistants Week 2024!
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Compared to MDs, the PA profession offers flexib…
01:06:15 |
Thu 03 Oct 2024
Rachel Takes Over to Ask the Big Questions
She’s arguably the better host. Dave is too tired to helm the show, so he lured Admissions Coordinator Rachel Shulista to be on the show, then hands over the hosting duties to her while he instead ta…
00:56:32 |
Thu 26 Sep 2024
Too Much, or Never Enough
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Balancing Medical School Ambitions and Personal W…
00:55:50 |
Thu 19 Sep 2024
MCAT Score Reveals, MMA or Family, and Never-ending Sacrifices
Are You The Asshole?
Dave is joined by co-hosts M1 Alec Marticoff, M1 Zach Grissom, PA1 Chloe Kepros, and M2 Holly Hemann. Together, they adjudicate several of reddit’s Am I The Asshole submission…
01:06:38 |
Thu 19 Sep 2024
The Disease Medicine Suffers From That’s Causing Immense Suffering
Dr. Marty Makary is a public health researcher and bestselling author whose new book, Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets it Wrong and What It Means for Our Health, is an incredibly accessible explorati…
01:07:30 |
Thu 12 Sep 2024
New MD and PA Students: Why Medicine?
Med Students discuss their “Why Medicine?” answers. Dave welcomes newly minted medical and PA students at the Carver College of Medicine to share their first-week experiences and the challenges of ad…
00:48:53 |
Thu 29 Aug 2024
New Students Arrive, How to Live in the Present, and Staying Sane While Applying
M2s Leticia Franciso and Gizzy Keeler, who served as orientation leaders for this year's new crop of medical and PA students, were in a good position to talk about the experience of transitioning fro…
00:58:06 |
Thu 22 Aug 2024
Blechardy and Beans
Med School is a non-trivial endeavor, but against the backdrop of a new class of MD and PA students arriving at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Dave and the co-hosts–including M3 H…
00:51:48 |
Thu 15 Aug 2024
Public Studying, Ultrasound Oopsie, and Stealing Valor from Nurses: AITA
It’s another trip through Reddit, arbiter of A-holishness
- What lessons does medical school teach? Aside from the foundations of cellular life, mechanisms of health and disease, and clinical and …
01:10:07 |
Thu 08 Aug 2024
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
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