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The Short Coat: An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School — 418 episodes
From Bartending to Bedside: What Our Pre-Med Jobs Taught Us About Medicine (Recess Rehash)
Clown Shoes, Attending Feedback, and a Very Quiet Goose
Feedback, Filler Words, and Fights Over Naturopathic Medicine
Should Medical Students have Babies (spoiler: yeah, baby!)
Free Med School and a Mission: Is Military Medicine For You?
These Iowa PA Students Are Riding 68 Miles for Cancer Prevention (BONUS EP)
Roshan Sethi on Med School Simpering and Making It in Hollywood
Medicine is Changing. Step Up and Shape It
The No-Guilt Summer: Med Students Finally Breathe
Game of Med School — We Actually Made It
Foreign Competition for Residency: The Data vs. The Rhetoric
Med School Stereotypes Shattered: What We’re Really Like Inside (Recess Rehash)
From EKG Meltdowns to OSCE Roller Coasters (or Treadmills): '25-26 Med School Vibes Recap
MD/PhD: The Long Game of Medicine and Research
Iowa City Haunts and Med School Hot Takes
Medical Students Judge Reddit’s Messiest Dilemmas (AITA)
Their Last Free Summer: How Four M1s Are Spending It
The Doctor Doesn't Know Either: Inside the Diagnostic Crisis
Blechardy Returns: Trivia, Wet Dog Beans, and Bad Guesses
"Ego Death?!" M4s Talk Audition Rotations
What are Med Students Reading: Book Club!
Medical Student Identity: What the White Coat Means
From Fire Hose to Final Decision–How Med Students Choose Careers (Recess Rehash)
Step Exams: Ready Or Not Here They Come
The Med School Traditions That Make Lifelong Bonds
Things You Can Do To Prepare for Med School (and One Thing You Shouldn’t!)
Choosing a Professional Identity: Beyond Medical School Classes
Med Students on Long Distance Love: Does It Last?
Medical Students and Love: Do Their Spouses Really Know Them?
Med Students React: Social Media from Helpful to Hogwash
The Surprising Connection Between Hobbies and Medicine
Med Students Take the Hot Nugget Challenge
Tips and Tricks for Crushing it in Clerkships
They Way Most Docs are Paid Doesn’t Lead to Healthier Patients (Recess Rehash)
Demand to Be Called ‘Doctor,’ or Let It Slide (AITA)? (Recess Rehash)
Another Path to Med School: Masters of Clinical Anatomy
The Unexpected Power of Student Doctors (Recess Rehash)
How to Survive The First Semester of Med School
Family expectations, culture clashes, and career priorities: Who’s the A-Hole? (Recess Rehash)
The Universal Experience that Medicine Hates Talking About Most
Harsh Truth: Most Pre-Meds Don’t Get Accepted
The Rural Doc Crisis and the Med Students Who Plan to Be Where They’re Most Needed
Med Student Leaders: Juggling Roles at School and Home
Med School Stereotypes Shattered: What We’re Really Like Inside
My Family Thinks I’m a Doctor Already
From Bartending to Bedside: What Our Pre-Med Jobs Taught Us About Medicine
Federal Loan Caps & Medical School Debt: What Future Doctors Need to Know
PA Week: Don’t Sleep on this Career!
From Broke to Bank: Money Lessons Med School Skips
Going on Leave: The Power Move No One Talks About in Med School
Feedback is Data, Not Devastation.
They Way Most Docs are Paid Doesn’t Lead to Healthier Patients
Family expectations, culture clashes, and career priorities: Who’s the A-Hole?
From Ecuador to Iowa, Ortho to Community Healthcare: the Last of the Summers
DNP Doubts, Prepping for Patients, and Smarts Self-Doubt–listener questions answered!
What Residency Program Directors Actually Want
Placentas, Prostates, and Purple Goggles (Recess Rehash)
Slap Some Moldy Bread On It: Blechardy! (Recess Rehash)
Medfluencers and Patient Education: Helpful or Risky? (Recess Rehash)
She Got Into Med School… But Now She’s Not Sure (Recess Rehash)
Sheriff of Sodium: AI Will Replace Doctors (Reality Check!)
How a Walk in the Park Sparked a Health Movement, ft. David Sabgir, MD
AI in Med School: Helpful Tool or Total Crutch?
Your Thesis Won’t Change the World (and Here’s Why)
The One Truth Linking Medicine, Mortality, and Meltdown
Free Lunch, Headaches, and Holding Hearts
The Unexpected Power of Student Doctors
From Broke to Bulletproof: The White Coat Investor’s Advice
Med School’s Unique Problems (AITA)
From Perfect Plans to Grease Fires: The Med School Spectrum
Medicine Can Cure TB—But Humanity Won’t
How Med Students Redefine Ability and Success
From Fire Hose to Final Decision–How Med Students Choose Careers
She Got Into Med School… But Now She’s Not Sure
If you’re asking, you might be the a**hole (Recess Rehash)
Prescribing Meet-ups Instead of Meds…it seems to work!
Medfluencers and Patient Education: Helpful or Risky?
Demand to Be Called ‘Doctor,’ or Let It Slide (AITA)?
Slap Some Moldy Bread On It: Blechardy!
4 Writers Explain How Telling Stories Makes Better Doctors
First Semester Med School: What Worked, What Failed, and How We Fixed It.
Into the Deep End: Surviving Our First Clinical Rotations (Tips and Tricks!)
When Your Partner is in Med School… What You Need to Know
The Secret to Getting Better Health Care: Be Different
Placentas, Prostates, and Purple Goggles
Shocking betrayals, sure fire blindness, niche community drama (Recess Rehash)
New MD and PA Students: Why Medicine? (Recess Rehash)
Stay or Run, Back from the Brink, Allopath v. Osteopath: Answering Listener Questions!
Don’t Drop Your Hobbies, Doc!
Dark Humor in Medicine, Family Expectations, and The Inviolable “Zone”
Trends in Medicine and Med Ed ft. Medscape’s Jon McKenna
It’s Thanksgiving. Let’s “Help” People.
Gross Anatomy: More Than Meets the Eye for Students
Worms, Fears, and Beethoven’s Ears (Recess Rehash)
MD and PA Students Aren’t Buying The Scope Creep Fight
Med-Techbros, Shortage Woes, and Ig Nobel Probes (Recess Rehash)
AITA: We’re All Just Janky ChatGPTs
Slapping together a Confident Med School Application List
Does the Medical Profession Glorify Misery? (Recess Rehash)
Is Med School Impossible with a Serious Mental Illness?
Physician Assistants Week 2024!
Rachel Takes Over to Ask the Big Questions
Too Much, or Never Enough
MCAT Score Reveals, MMA or Family, and Never-ending Sacrifices
The Disease Medicine Suffers From That’s Causing Immense Suffering
New MD and PA Students: Why Medicine?
New Students Arrive, How to Live in the Present, and Staying Sane While Applying
Blechardy and Beans
Public Studying, Ultrasound Oopsie, and Stealing Valor from Nurses: AITA
What Does “Perfect” Mean in Med School?
Stem Cell Shenanigans, Hopkins Hype, and Buxton’s Bravery
AITA? Probably!
How Med Students Do Long Distance Relationships
Small Towns, Big Impact: Rural Medicine ft. Peter Kaboli, MD (Recess Rehash)
The Sheriff is Watching, Ft. Bryan Carmody, MD (Recess Rehash)
Programs that will pay for medical school (and one thing not to do)
If you’re asking, you might be the a**hole
New Women’s Health Restrictions?
Does the Medical Profession Glorify Misery?
Against the Odds: First-Generation in Medicine
Worms, Fears, and Beethoven’s Ears
Med School is SIMPLE?! (Recess Rehash)
3 ways medicine changed this week
Disability in Medicine: The Every Day Struggle
Shocking betrayals, sure fire blindness, niche community drama
The PERFECT specialty? Occupational Medicine ft. Matthew Kiok, MD, MPH
Traits to Treat: Personality in Medicine
Small Towns, Big Impact: Rural Medicine ft. Peter Kaboli, MD
Listener asks: What does Patient Advocacy Look Like? (Recess Rehash)
A Med School “cocktail” party (no party sounds)
A Med School “cocktail” party
The Sheriff is Watching, Ft. Bryan Carmody, MD
the Exam Table and Beyond: The Role of a Family Doctor
Bias, Baby Heads, and Memes
Love, Lobsters, and Loans: The Just Married Game
Med School is SIMPLE?!
Sleeper Specialty: Medicine Psychiatry ft. Andrea Weber, MD, MME
Sleeper specialty: Preventive Medicine ft. Silvia Caswell DO, MPH
Sleeper Specialty: Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Ft. Dr. Brittany Bettendorf
Why Having a Pet in Med School is a Good Idea (Recess Rehash)
Hot Takes: Med School Edition (Part 1?) (Recess Rehash)
Belief at the Bedside (Recess Rehash)
Classroom Challenges and Global Goals
What Medicine Really Needs from Artificial Intelligence, ft. Ilana Yurkiewicz (pt. 2)
How Studying Changes from Premed to Clnicals (Recess Rehash)
The Practicalities of Policy; Alex Trebot Returns
Top-notch Residents, Emergency Room Violence
Sleeper Specialties: Nuclear Medicine
Piecing Together American Healthcare, ft. Dr. Ilana Yurkiewicz (Part 1)
Selfie-Diagnosis, Fentanyl Anti-Doses
Health Is An Outfit That Looks Different On Every Body
TB Eradication, mRNA Vindication
Med-Techbros, Shortage Woes, and Ig Nobel Probes
Physician Assistants: From Clinic to O.R., Partners in Health
The Chains of Med Ed History, with Adam Rodman (Recess Rehash)
Mothers Deserve Better
Major vs. Medicine: How we Decided
AMA says “provider” is out; OB/Gyn ditches residency application they helped create
The Evolution of Acceptable
Are We More Empathetic than AI?
Dr. Paul Offit Continues The Fight Against Vaccine Misinformation
jump right in or watch and learn: standing out In Clerkships
Breaking the Silence: Judge Rosemarie Aquilina on the Power of Trauma-Informed Care (Recess Rehash)
Bad Advice is a Leaky Umbrella (Recess Rehash)
What Patient Advocacy Looks Like
Race-Conscious Admissions Ends, Upends Schools’ Diversity Efforts
Brains Learning About Brains
The True Value of Pre Med Shadowing
The Ethics of End-of-Life Care (Recess Rehash)
Spring Break Trivia with a Twist (Recess Rehash)
Uncovered! First-Year Students Learn Way More than Medicine
Our Hobbies Save Us
Oath Vs. Enterprise: Moral Injury in Medicine with Wendy Dean
President Garfield’s Doc had the Worst Take on Pus, ft. Ryan Nanni
The Chains of Med Ed History, with Adam Rodman
Belief at the Bedside
From Problem to Publication
Bad Advice is a Leaky Umbrella
What Physicians Can Do to Reduce Gun Violence Harm
Who Decides We Have Enough Evidence to Stop Debating?
Co-Surviving Medicine, With the Glaucomfleckens
Match Week 2023: The Results are in!
Spring Break Trivia with a Twist
MED SCHOOL CHANGED US
Myths and Misunderstandings
Now We Wait: Keeping Busy As They Decide Our Fate
It’s Here: AI Powered Studying!
The Genetic Engineering Debate isn’t as Easy as You Think
Trust Means Everything
The Ethics of End-of-Life Care
They Came, They Saw, They Figured It Out: Tales from First Semester
“Soft” Skills: The Importance of Learning to Communicate
Breaking the Silence: Judge Rosemarie Aquilina on the Power of Trauma-Informed Care
Race Is Everywhere In Medicine–Meet A Student Trying To Change That (Recess Rehash)
How to Get Involved in Meaningful Med School Research
PHI RHO: ANOTHER CO-OP HOUSING OPTION
Medical School Hot Takes, Part 2
You Should NOT Go to Med School (Recess Rehash)
Urology = Mac & Cheese, and other Thanksgiving Questions Answered
A Medical School Frat?
Hot Takes: Med School Edition (Part 1?)
Zebra Hoofbeats: Rare Compassion for People with Rare Diseases
Is A Research Year Right for You?
Vote For Your Patients
Physician Associate vs. Assistant: What’s in a name?
How Studying Changes from Premed to Clnicals
Pancakes and Firehoses: How Med Students Decide Where to Focus
How We’re Preparing for Residency Interviews
How Climate Change will Change Medicine
You Should NOT Go to Med School
Actually Useful Premed Activies
Why Having a Pet in Med School is a Good Idea
Monkeypox: a National Health Emergency
Race Is Everywhere In Medicine–Meet A Student Trying To Change That
Recess Rehash: The Question All Future Applicants should Ask: “What Will Help Me Grow?”
Recess Rehash: Why Med Learners are Asked to “Reflect,” And What Does It Even Mean?
Recess Rehash: Med Schools Hate When Students Have Jobs. Some People Take the Risk Anyway.
Social Media: Med Ed Miracle, or Minefield?
SCOTUS Changed Med Ed As We Know It with Dr. Abby hardy-Fairbanks
Does a Career in Medicine Make Financial Sense?
How Med Students Would Change Medicine
Stop Gatekeeping “Doctor.”
Med Student Life: Evals, Boards, and Carmel Corn Bribery
Advice For Incoming Medical Students–Friends, Studying, Specialties, And More!
Hacks to Build Patient Rapport In An Instant
What Is the First Year of Medical School Like?
The Power of Discomfort in Learning Medicine
Adding a PHD: Choosing the Right Option for YOu
Tall Testosterone Tales for the Toxic testicle Troops
NOT EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE MEANINGFUL, Y’ALL.
Lessons from the Wards: what Future Residents Need to Know (Ft. Dr. Abbey hardy-Fairbanks)
Today’s Healthcare Careers are More Varied Than Ever. Explore Them Before You Risk Med School
Criminal Charges for Medical Mistakes: A Bad Idea?
Ableism in Medicine Often Forces Learners to Advocate For Themselves
Med Schools Hate When Students Have Jobs. Some People Take the Risk Anyway.
Rushing to Med School means Missed Opportunities (RECESS REHASH)
Sociaizing and Studying: How do Med Students Do It?
The Trainees Who Don’t Fit the Med Ed Mission
Low MCAT Ruins Listener’s Med School Plans. Or Does It?
Pre-med Advisors Don’t Know Everything: Recovering after Dismissal
MUSICIANS TAKE A STAND ON SPOTIFY/ROGAN. WILL that FIGHT HEALTH MISINFO?
Why Med Learners are Asked to “Reflect,” And What Does It Even Mean?
The Question All Future Applicants should Ask: “What Will Help Me Grow?”
Overcoming Your Undergrad Apathy Now that You’re Applying to Medical School
The Coming Physician Exodus: Why Doctors May Leave the Profession Soon (Recess Rehash)
Recess Rehash: When Life Is Getting In the Way of Med School: the Value of the Tactical Retreat.
Academic vs. Community MDs: Who Has It Better? Ft. Santa Claus
Finding Meaningful Research Opportunities
Med School App Mistakes to Crush Under Your Feet Like Worms (Recess Rehash)
Recess Rehash: Life Hacks for Med Students
BEST JOBS FOR A FUTURE MD/PHD STUDENT, and Turkey Day Shenannigans
Dr. Bruce Campbell, and a Fullness of Uncertain Significance
Electronic residency Application Service Glitching…Again?
Nothing is Out of Your League
Hot Sauce Halloween
Is Medicine the Squid Game?
Physician Assistant Week!
The Obscure Document Residency Programs Use to Decide If You’re Worthy
Married Applicants: What Do Schools Think?
How to Find a Non-Trad Friendly School
Music Soothes and Builds Teams
Lone Stars and Lawsuits : Will Texas’ unique Solution to Abortion stand?
Rushing to Med School means Missed Opportunities
Overthinking: Keeping AdComms Up To Date
Unsatisfied Just Learning Medicine, These Students Became Journalists, Too
5 Med School Application Mistakes Everyone Makes, and How to Crush Them Under Your Feet Like Worms
Ask Your doctor if COVID is Right For You.
The Coming Physician Exodus: Why Doctors May Leave the Profession Soon
Awesome, More application Hoops!
WHAT Are They REALLY LOOKING FOR IN YOUR PERSONAL STATEMENT? Top Tips from our Expert
Parenting in Med School, Part 3: What About the Partners?
Life Hacks for Med Students
HAVING BABIES IN MED SCHOOL, PT. 2: HOW DO SCHOOLS SUPPORT PARENTS?
Urology is about more than penises and prostates, ft. Men’s Health Doc Amy Pearlman, MD
When Life Is Getting In the Way of Med School: the Value of the Tactical Retreat.
Hot Takes: Dr. Marty Makary dissects the US COVID Response, and he isn’t happy
HAVING BABIES IN MEDICAL SCHOOL
Practicing Humanism when patients Doubt Your Motives
Recess Rehash: DROWNING IN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Hitting the Wall, Then Scaling the Heights
Table Rounds: Gamifying Med Ed, ft. Paulius Mui, MD
The New Medical Student: Tips and Tricks from First-Years
Requiem for a Meme: Yahoo! Answers will close
Is Your Affective Presence Killing Your Dream?
Seizing The Moment: How COVID Could Change Healthcare, Ft. Shantanu Nundy, Md
Did Match Day Implode?
Complimentary Therapy
How To Fix A Gap: Do It Yourself!
The King of Intestinal Gas
Good Advice: Wrong Answers Only
In Med School We Trust. or not.
What Jobs to Med Students Actually Do in their clerksh?
DROWNING IN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Is Medicine A Calling, or a Job?
What You Should Tell Your FAmily About Med School
MD or DO: What is the Difference?
Recess Rehash: Microaggressions: preparing to experience, witness, and commit them
Recess Rehash: This Student’s Shame is Changing Our Curriculum
Vaccine Fever
Recess Rehash: Liver Bits, Cold Glocks, and Cancer of the Cancer
AMA: Racism is a Public health Threat. SCP Co-hosts: Gosh, really?
Recess Rehash: When Doctors Do Harm ft. Danielle Ofri, MD
Quality over Quantity: Clinical Experiences and Volunteering in COVID Times
What About Choosing the Cheapest Medical School?
To Leave or Not To Leave
The Power and Perils of Prestige in Med Ed
Choosing Your Clinical Education: Community Hospital or Academic Medical Center?
Md/PhD worries: Transitioning to the Lab
On Top or Down Low: The Status Hierarchies in Medicine ft. Tania Jenkins, PhD
Chronic Conditions in Medical School
The Doctor is Burned Out ft. Jeff Moody, MD
Flyover Country? Far From It!
Liver Bits, Cold Glocks, and Cancer of the Cancer
Recess Rehash: MD/MBA: Why Physicians Must Know More About Business
BONUS: The challenges of Refugee Healthcare with Dr. Akihiro Seita
“Preference Signaling” –the Future of Applications?
does a DO Degree Ruin your Speciality plans?
A COVID Puzzle in a Rural Iowa Community
Putting on your #MedBikini
When Doctors Do Harm ft. Danielle Ofri, MD
Recess Rehash: Is Academic Medicine Right For You?
MD/MBA: Why Physicians Must Know More About Business
How A Young FAmily Should Think About The Risks Of Med School
AAMC ‘s VITA interview tool…is it Really Vital?
What Every Med Student Needs To Know About Being a Leader ft. Brent Lacey, MD
What med students do when they don’t know the right answer
The Right (and Wrong) Ways to Get Help with Your Application
Timing a peace-corps gap year, and Racism and Medicine
the activities Admissions Committees Love to See
Applying: Your Experience Is A Bonus, If You Can Tell The Right Story
More Signs that Med School Will Be Different This Fall
This Student’s Shame is Changing Our Curriculum
Crush It In Your Zoom Interview
Exploring Your New Med School City
How the Sausage is Made: Why Doctors–and Students–Must Engage In Politics
Recess Rehash: Why you’re better off on day one not knowing what kind of doc you want to be.
the crudest patient
What We’re Still Doing, What Brings Us Joy
Podcasting from A (social) distance
Covid-19 could change the world…forever
Why you’re better off on day one not knowing what kind of doc you want to be.
Holding out for your dream school
Is Academic Medicine Right For You?
Step 1 is Pass/Fail. Now what???
Why Come to the US for Residency When Turkey has Pet Parks?
Singer, Songwriter, Scientist: Rosanne Cash
$600,000 in med school debt?!
Do These Things to Manage Your New M1 Life
How residency programs misuse STEP 1 scores
First author in an 8 week summer research project?
Bonus Episode: The Lost Pre-Christmas Show
Recess Rehash: How to ADHD in Med School
Recess Rehash: Choose a Specialty, Choose a Lifestyle: Factors We Consider
Happy Holidays!
Your patients’ stories will sustain you in your darkest hours (bonus ft. Dr. John Mrachek)
Freezing Development to Help Care for the Disabled (ft. Dr. Ryan Gray)
Study Tips, Annoying Hics, and Fat Cloud Rips
Turkey, Telomerase, and Time-Turning Trauma Treatment
Microaggressions: preparing to experience, witness, and commit them
How to ADHD in Med School
Spooky Med Student Stories!
Standing Out by Presenting at Conferences
Choose a Specialty, Choose a Lifestyle: Factors We Consider
A Stitch In Time Saves Swine.
Too Idealistic for Medicine?
Get to Know the Nurse, Save Yourself from Grief
Terms and Conditions Apply
Medicine Has a DARK Past
Elders Need Docs Who Understand Them (ft. Louise Aronson, MD)
Slipping On The Short Coat
Think Ahead to Save Your Soul
Cracking Open the Firehose
Recess Rehash: Advice for your first clinicals: slow your roll.
Recess Rehash: Here’s Vomit In Your Eyes
Millennials may be changing healthcare (ft. Martin Makary, MD)
Recess Rehash: Your Romance Could End In Tears, But It Doesn’t Have To!
The Mysteries of the Cost of Healthcare ft. Dan Weissmann
Recess Rehash: Tests, Tact, and Turpentine
Advice for your first clinicals: slow your roll.
Kernels of Truth
How Med Students Learn about Cultural Competency
Recess Rehash: What Med Schools Miss Out On Because of “Technical Standards”
Failure is an Option…When You Learn From It.
The Laws that are Shrinking the Telomeres of OB/Gyn Residents
In 2019, Medicine Is Political.
Marcia’s Measley Message Makes Mistaken Moms Mad
Here’s Vomit In Your Eyes
Brown Girl, White Coat, ft. Saie Joshi
A Tinkle In Our Pants and A Song In Our Hearts
Bonus: Tropical Medicine is Saving the World, ft. Karen Goraleski
Your Romance Could End In Tears, But It Doesn’t Have To!
What Med Schools Miss Out On Because of “Technical Standards”
Get In Next Time: Our Top Recommendations For Fixing Your Application!
Invent the Future of Medicine, ft. Matthew Howard, MD
Why Med Students Join Medical Societies
Second Looks and Fantasy Gap Years
Is Your Previous Career A Strike Against You?
What Research Means for Residency Applications
Dr. Mamdouh Aker: Palestinian doctor and human rights activist (Bonus Episode)
Doubts, Needles, and Measles
MD/PhD admissions and Shadowing Strategies
Doctor down under, or Medicine in ‘Merica?
Med School Hidden Costs, and Extracurricular Activities
The MD path or the PA path
Don’t count on Public Service Loan Forgiveness
The Harsh Truths and Pleasant Realities of Med School
The Darkness Without: SAD in Med School
Mouths Wide Open
Genetically Engineered Babies, Medical Student Influencers
LGBT in Med School
Recess Rehash: Poor: a deadly diagnosis in America, ft. Sarah Smarsh
Recess Rehash: Bonus Episode! Why You Might Want an MD/PhD
Getting there from here, a novel recipe, and future projects
An Episode of Questionable Things
Poor: a deadly diagnosis in America, ft. Sarah Smarsh
Hit By A Bus
Nebraska has questions.
Listeners Revolt!