The Short Coat Podcast
1) Med Students React: Social Media from Helpful to Hogwash
Slather some beef tallow on it. On this episode, M3 Fallon Jung, M1s Isa Perez-Sandi and Cory Karasek, and M2 Maria Schapfel let loose on the internet’s wildest health content. We react to AI...Show More
2) The Surprising Connection Between Hobbies and Medicine
Don’t give up the outside activities that’ll make you a better doc As Dave has observed many times, medicine will take everything you have, if you allow it to. What this means is that y...Show More
3) Med Students Take the Hot Nugget Challenge
[Content warning: Dave did his best to remove sniffles.] Spicy chicken nuggets, bad decisions, and what happens when medical students test their heat tolerance on mic What happens when medical s...Show More
4) Tips and Tricks for Crushing it in Clerkships
What to expect for med students moving from classroom to exam room The beginning of clerkships mark a medical student’s progress from theoretical learning to practical application of what the...Show More
5) They Way Most Docs are Paid Doesn’t Lead to Healthier Patients (Recess Rehash)
[ICYMI, here’s a rerun of a show released earlier this year. We’ll be back with new shows starting next week!] How the system pays doctors can change healthcare outcomes—sometimes in scary ways. ...Show More
6) Demand to Be Called ‘Doctor,’ or Let It Slide (AITA)? (Recess Rehash)
[It’s winter break, and everything has come to a halt here, including podcasting. We’ll be back soon, promise!] Reddit’s “Am I the Asshole?” makes us question everything Reddit’s “A...Show More
7) Another Path to Med School: Masters of Clinical Anatomy
An alternative to postbac programs? 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 directors of ...Show More
8) The Unexpected Power of Student Doctors (Recess Rehash)
[We weren’t available to record a new show for you this week, so enjoy this rerun instead!] Clinical students are sometimes the only ones who have time to listen In the clinic, med student...Show More
9) How to Survive The First Semester of Med School
These M1s say it wasn’t easy…but it was FUN? You know medical school is hard, but what does that mean? That idea has no emotional connection to anything until you are IN IT, and these ...Show More
10) Family expectations, culture clashes, and career priorities: Who’s the A-Hole? (Recess Rehash)
[Due to Thanksgiving break, we have no new episode this week for you, but here’s a good one from our back catalog!] When your boyfriend’s an OB/GYN and your friends can’t chill ...Show More