Medschoolmedic Podcast

Dr. Jessica Molokie from the Not A Medical Marvel Podcast joins Ed to discuss her journey through undergraduate school and medical school. Dr. Molokie is a graduate of a caribbean school that will be starting her residency in Florida in June 2020. Attrition rate in US medical schools What to

In the setting of the novel coronavirus, or Covid-19, medical education is changing. How does it affect student currently in the clinical setting? How will it change the delivery of medical education in general? Does it change how aspiring medical students should approach medical school? Ed and Mike discuss all

I. Background -Step 1 is the first in a series of medical licensing exams for student physicians in the United States -2019, Journal of Academic Medicine, group of medical students talked about the toxic Step 1 environment that develops during the preclinical years of medicine (https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Fulltext/2019/03000/Student_Perspectives_on_the__Step_1_Climate__in.9.aspx) -A few days ago,

It’s a classic trope in medical school that students need to know everything, but is that actually the case? In this episode, Ed and Mike discuss:  Is it okay to not know everything?  How should I flag questions on exams?  Changing Study Habits in Medical School What are pre-matriculation programs?

Learning how to study in medical school can be difficult. Is there a right way? It seems that spaced repetition with programs like Anki might be helpful for most people. What about the right QBank? Ed and Mike discuss all this and more on this episode. Bickerdike et. al 2017

MedSchoolMedic Episode 17 Show Notes On this episode, Ed and Mike discuss the value (if there is any) of standardized tests and the way that exams in medical schools are administered. Is the MCAT representative of how you’ll perform in medical school? Is Step 1 an accurate representation of how

This episode marks the reboot of the MedSchoolMedic Podcast! On this cross-over with MSM’s sister show The Overrun, Dan sits with Ed and Mike to discuss the journey from paramedic to physician…does it help? Can it hurt? How do you do it? If you’ve ever thought of going to medical

Should we be giving blood products to trauma patients in the pre-hospital setting? In theory, it would stand to reason that the patient has lost blood, and thus should receive more of it. But that doesn’t exactly pan out in the data. In 2016, the journal Shock performed a literature

Everybody needs to calm down. Calm. The hell. Down. This week, the National Association of State EMS Officials (NASEMSO) published a working draft of the 2018 national EMS scope of practice model. This is, as stated in the title, a working draft that is open for discussion and thus is

We all have our preferences when it comes to intubation. Some prefer DL, others prefer VL. Personally, I’ve always been a proponent of DL. But when it comes to VL, I have my biases as well. So which one works better? It turns out that it depends on who you