The Short Coat Podcast
1) Things You Can Do To Prepare for Med School (and One Thing You Shouldn’t!)
Prioritize Fun! What should you do with the time between getting accepted to medical school and orientation week? Fallon Jung, Anna Royer, Jonah Albrecht, and Charis Edwards tell their stories abo...Show More
2) Choosing a Professional Identity: Beyond Medical School Classes
How medical schools help students figure out what kind of doctor they’ll be. Looking at medical school and wondering what you’ll actually *do* with all that training? Like, you know you...Show More
3) Med Students on Long Distance Love: Does It Last?
When medical school forces couples apart, students face tough realities Medical students dish on the messy, tender, and surprisingly philosophical reality of long-distance relationships during med ...Show More
4) Medical Students and Love: Do Their Spouses Really Know Them?
The Heart Wants What It Wants. In this Valentine’s Day episode, four medical students sit down to play the ultimate compatibility game—answering questions their partners answered about them a...Show More
5) 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
6) 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
7) 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
8) 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
9) 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
10) 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