The Short Coat Podcast
1) 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
2) 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
3) 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
4) 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
5) 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
6) 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
7) The Universal Experience that Medicine Hates Talking About Most
[Content warning: this episode contains frank discussions of death and dying that some listeners may want to skip.] Doctors need to actually ask patients what a good death looks like to them Med...Show More
8) Harsh Truth: Most Pre-Meds Don’t Get Accepted
Co-hosts M2 Daniel Haws, M3 Fallon Jung, and M2 Cara Arrasmith talk about why they had to try an extra time or two--what they did wrong and how they fixed it--with CCOM admissions expert Rachel Shulis...Show More
9) The Rural Doc Crisis and the Med Students Who Plan to Be Where They’re Most Needed
We’re talking about rural medicine, where the needs are huge, the systems are broken, and sometimes, you just have to trust the process. Did you know that rural Americans have only 13.1 docs per 10,00...Show More
The Rural Doc Crisis and the Med Students Who Plan to Be Where They’re Most Needed
52:42 | Nov 13th, 2025
10) Med Student Leaders: Juggling Roles at School and Home
Our co-hosts--M2s Zach Grissom, Megan Perry, Sarah Upton, and Chase Larsson--lead specialty interest groups, student government, advocacy organizations, and their learning communities; all of their ro...Show More