The Short Coat: An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
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The Short Coat: An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
The HONEST guide to medical school, featuring real students from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine–skip this show if you’d rather not know (and hate laughter)!
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From Bartending to Bedside: What Our Pre-Med Jobs Taught Us About Medicine (Recess Rehash)
If you're thinking of starting over and going to med school, you might wonder what your previous jobs have done to prepare you for it. Good news: your...
Clown Shoes, Attending Feedback, and a Very Quiet Goose
This week M3s Srishti Mathur and Zach Grissom are joined by CCOM admissions expert Rachel Shulista and the PA Program clinicals coordinator Andrew Dao...
Feedback, Filler Words, and Fights Over Naturopathic Medicine
M2s Akshaj Joshi, Anna Royer, Charis Edwards, and Cory Karasek talk about giving and receiving feedback, what it's like reading a stack of evaluative...
Should Medical Students have Babies (spoiler: yeah, baby!)
M2 Jack Klitgaard and M4 Fallon Jung are both expecting newborns in the coming months. M2 Regan Demaris has a couple toddlers already, and CCOM Regist...
Free Med School and a Mission: Is Military Medicine For You?
For pre-meds staring down six figures of debt, the military offers something rare: a fully funded path through medical school built around a mission b...
These Iowa PA Students Are Riding 68 Miles for Cancer Prevention (BONUS EP)
Isabel Ahmann, Alex Fouts, and Nia Tanui, and Giana Michels just survived their first year of PA school alongside the MDs, and to celebrate they're ri...
Roshan Sethi on Med School Simpering and Making It in Hollywood
Radiation oncologist and director Roshan Sethi: confidence in medicine is mostly performance.
The book club is back, and M2...
Medicine is Changing. Step Up and Shape It
As societies and governments wrestle with the rise of artificial intelligence, The Short coats sit down with Dr. Lindsey Knake, a CCOM alum neonatolog...
The No-Guilt Summer: Med Students Finally Breathe
It's freeform Friday on the pod, which means the Iowa City parking situation is excellent, the rising M2s are bored and slightly guilty about it, and...
Game of Med School — We Actually Made It
Can The Short Coats make a card game that captures the twists and turns of medical school? Well, we've given it a try, and now we finally play it — th...
Foreign Competition for Residency: The Data vs. The Rhetoric
The $100,000 H-1b visa fee landed in September 2025 like a fire alarm in the hallways of medicine—hospitals panicked, advocacy groups mobilized, and a...
Med School Stereotypes Shattered: What We’re Really Like Inside (Recess Rehash)
We've all got that mental image of medical students – the type-A perfectionists grinding through textbooks even on the porcelain throne, right? Well,...
From EKG Meltdowns to OSCE Roller Coasters (or Treadmills): '25-26 Med School Vibes Recap
The Carver Carnival is the Carver College of Medicine's unofficial exhale — an end-of-year celebration where students who have been running on caffein...
MD/PhD: The Long Game of Medicine and Research
Riley Behan-Bush found the MD/PhD program through a Google search. Hannah Van Ert had already started a career in nursing before a research lab change...
Iowa City Haunts and Med School Hot Takes
For the full list of our favorite places, visit https://theshortcoat.com/haunts.
Iowa City is small enough that you can bike from the hospital t...
Medical Students Judge Reddit’s Messiest Dilemmas (AITA)
Dave and his M1 co-hosts Lily Schmidt, Melia Patrick, Jonah Albrecht, and Anna Royer, take a field trip to Reddit's AITA sub— because self-reflection...
Their Last Free Summer: How Four M1s Are Spending It
Four medical students— Lily Schmidt, Melia Patrick, Jonah Albrecht, and Anna Royer— talk through how they landed on their "last free summer ever" plan...
The Doctor Doesn't Know Either: Inside the Diagnostic Crisis
Author and New York Times Health and Science Opinion Editor Alexandra Sifferlin has spent years as a journalist fielding emails from patients who coul...
Blechardy Returns: Trivia, Wet Dog Beans, and Bad Guesses
Blechardy is back, this time in Jelly Bean Mode — where every correct answer earns you a mystery BeanBoozled jelly bean that could be peach or could b...
"Ego Death?!" M4s Talk Audition Rotations
Among all the strange things about medical school, there's the so-called "away" or "audition" rotation. M4s Aditi Katwala, Hend Al-Kaylani, Lena Volf...
What are Med Students Reading: Book Club!
What if the cure for doctor-speak was actually just… reading more books? This week M1s Anna Royer, Sophia Hueser, Gwen Sewell, and Ellie Johnson have...
Medical Student Identity: What the White Coat Means
You're on stage at the "White Coat Ceremony," putting on that short coat for the first time, and honestly? It feels kind of weird. Like you're playing...
From Fire Hose to Final Decision–How Med Students Choose Careers (Recess Rehash)
All of med school leads up to one moment: Match Day. But how do get there? Dave Etler sits down with graduating M4s Mallory Kallish (surgery), Matt En...
Step Exams: Ready Or Not Here They Come
If you're a pre-med, you may have heard about Step exams. But what are they? When the hell are you supposed to start studying? Should you be doing Ank...
The Med School Traditions That Make Lifelong Bonds
Tradition is a big part of medical school--med students willingly tie themselves to comedy shows, charity 5Ks, and yearly ceremonies when they're alre...
Things You Can Do To Prepare for Med School (and One Thing You Shouldn’t!)
What should you do with the time between getting accepted to medical school and orientation week? Fallon Jung, Anna Royer, Jonah Albrecht, and Charis...
Choosing a Professional Identity: Beyond Medical School Classes
Looking at medical school and wondering what you'll actually *do* with all that training? Like, you know you'll doctor...but in what way? What will th...
Med Students on Long Distance Love: Does It Last?
Medical students dish on the messy, tender, and surprisingly philosophical reality of long-distance relationships during med school, from navigating f...
Medical Students and Love: Do Their Spouses Really Know Them?
In this Valentine's Day episode, four medical students sit down to play the ultimate compatibility game—answering questions their partners answered ab...
Med Students React: Social Media from Helpful to Hogwash
On this episode, M3 Fallon Jung, M1s Alexis Baker and Cory Karasek, and M2 Maria Schapfel let loose on the internet's wildest health content We react...
The Surprising Connection Between Hobbies and Medicine
Medicine will take everything you have, if you allow it to. What this means is that you have to carve out time for your own interests, whether you're...
Med Students Take the Hot Nugget Challenge
What happens when medical students, extremely spicy chicken nuggets, and microphones collide? Regret. M1s Reed Adajaar, Trever Maiers, Ben Cooper, a...
Tips and Tricks for Crushing it in Clerkships
The beginning of clerkships mark a medical student’s progress from theoretical learning to practical application of what they’ve been taught. This pa...
They Way Most Docs are Paid Doesn’t Lead to Healthier Patients (Recess Rehash)
The way docs are paid can make patients sicker...or can lead to healthier ones. The payment schemes most docs work under incentivize them to fix patie...
Demand to Be Called ‘Doctor,’ or Let It Slide (AITA)? (Recess Rehash)
Reddit’s “Am I the Asshole?” makes us question everything. It showcases the best and worst in people—and this week, we’re analyzing some choice cases...
Another Path to Med School: Masters of Clinical Anatomy
Postbac programs are okay, but what if there was another path to medical school? M2s Sarah Upton, Alec Marticoff, and Kevin Gubner host the program di...
The Unexpected Power of Student Doctors (Recess Rehash)
Clinical students are sometimes the only ones who have time to listen. In the clinic, med students can feel like bystanders, but they can make all the...
How to Survive The First Semester of Med School
M1s Jonah Albrecht, Trever Maiers, Alex Johnson, and Chris Ceplecha review the M1 semester and how they survived it. You'll hear about what habits the...
Family expectations, culture clashes, and career priorities: Who’s the A-Hole? (Recess Rehash)
We’re passing judgment—because someone has to. This week’s Reddit-fueled medical panel takes on uncomfortable questions that your group chat definitel...
The Universal Experience that Medicine Hates Talking About Most
Of course, med students train to be healers, to fix what is broken. But a conversation about the end of life, and the patients' goals for that most s...