The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School

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The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School episodes

July 15, 2021 WHAT Are They REALLY LOOKING FOR IN YOUR PERSONAL STATEMENT? Top Tips from our Expert
Your med school application won't be the last time you write a personal statement. They're everywhere in medicine, so keep track of experiences you can write about when you need to.
Be careful about thinking too much about strategy, sacrificing the 'personal' part. It's pretty easy to spot someone who isn't writing with feeling.
Very few people can honestly write about a lightbulb moment when they suddenly knew what they wanted, so don't bother.
1 hr 12 min
July 08, 2021 Parenting in Med School, Part 3: What About the Partners?
Asking for and getting help from one's med-student partner when parenting gets overwhelming is essential.
Organizing with other med student parents for mutual support is crucial.
The fear that med school is completely inflexible for parents may be unfounded.
48 min
July 01, 2021 Life Hacks for Med Students
Eliminate unnecessary friction to the completion of a task
Paying others to do other life tasks can be helpful
Saying no is as important as maximizing efficiency.
1 hr 1 min
June 24, 2021 HAVING BABIES IN MED SCHOOL, PT. 2: HOW DO SCHOOLS SUPPORT PARENTS?
Is it enough to deal with issues on a case-by-case basis, or do schools need to do better?
TL;DR
We share more stories from our med student parents.
What the research says about how medical schools are supporting parents and pregnant students in medical school.
How should med schools support student parents and pregnant students–can schools do better?
Physician training comes smack in the middle of prime parenting years. Yet the intensity and time commitment required to study medicine doesn’t make the decision to have kids while in school or residency–or to go into medicine when you already have kids-seem viable.
Of course, parents do it all the time, so CCOM Dad and M3 Nick Lind is back to host another in his series on medical school parenting with some other mommies and daddies. M1 Katie Higham-Kessler, M2s Jessica De Haan andSally Heaberlin, and M3 Zach Tully discuss what schools are doing to support their students who are considering or having children, and what they can do better.
Jessica also clues us in on the body of research into this important issue. There seems to be a lack of robust research on parenting in medical school, with most such studies focusing on residency–a very different situation. Perhaps the concept of the “traditional” medical student (who is age 22 to 26) has obscured the needs of the non-traditional student who is older and wants to start or has a family.
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DOCTOR VOX – Heatstroke: youtu.be/j1n1zlxzyRE
Catmosphere – Candy-Coloured Sky: youtu.be/AZjYZ8Kjgs8 ;
Hexalyte – Wandering Hours: youtu.be/FOAo2zsYnvA;
1 hr 4 min
June 17, 2021 Urology is about more than penises and prostates, ft. Men’s Health Doc Amy Pearlman, MD
* Urologist Amy Pearlman has built her practice upon the opportunities offered by YouTube, Twitter, and Tik Tok.
* The one question no one asks themselves that can help you decide on your future specialty: what can’t you live without?
* Medical school does not teach you how to be a doctor. That’s what residency and fellowships are for.
You deserve to be happy and healthy. If you’re struggling with racism, harassment, hate, your mental health, or some other crisis, visit http://theshortcoat.com/help, and send additions to the resources there to [email protected]. We love you.
Music provided by Argofox. License: bit.ly/CCAttribution
DOCTOR VOX – Heatstroke: youtu.be/j1n1zlxzyRE
Catmosphere – Candy-Coloured Sky: youtu.be/AZjYZ8Kjgs8 ;
Hexalyte – Wandering Hours: youtu.be/FOAo2zsYnvA;
1 hr 14 min
June 10, 2021 When Life Is Getting In the Way of Med School: the Value of the Tactical Retreat.
TL;DR
* Medical school is all-consuming, but sometimes you need to take time to deal with the slings and arrows of life.
* Don’t be afraid that you’ll jeopardize your career by taking a leave during medical school. Better to do it before your situation causes harm to your test scores or grades.
* A Brown University study finds that schools are failing in their diversity goals for admitting URMs.
1 hr 4 min
June 03, 2021 Hot Takes: Dr. Marty Makary dissects the US COVID Response, and he isn’t happy
Guest Marty Makary condemns the old way that healthcare responds to current events.
Sticking to the clinical trials process and a reluctance to use the knowledge already available from Chinese doctors slowed US responses and killed people.
“We had terrible medical leadership throughout the pandemic, and I think it’s good for our leaders to show some degree of humility to say, look, we consistently got it wrong.”
You deserve to be happy and healthy. If you’re struggling with racism, harassment, hate, your mental health, or some other crisis, visit http://theshortcoat.com/help, and send additions to the resources there to [email protected]. We love you.
Music provided by Argofox. License: bit.ly/CCAttribution
DOCTOR VOX – Heatstroke: youtu.be/j1n1zlxzyRE
Catmosphere – Candy-Coloured Sky: youtu.be/AZjYZ8Kjgs8 ;
Hexalyte – Wandering Hours: youtu.be/FOAo2zsYnvA;
1 hr 4 min
May 27, 2021 HAVING BABIES IN MEDICAL SCHOOL
The choice to become pregnant in medical school is always a difficult one to make, considering the time constraints and the physical toll it can take.
Raising a kids in medical school is perhaps even harder, as even if things go well in the pregnancy, now you've got little humans to learn about, protect, and enjoy (and miss out on, sometimes).
In Part One of this three-parter, we'll lay it all bare for you--what's it really like to raise a family while learning to be a doctor.
1 hr 13 min
May 20, 2021 Practicing Humanism when patients Doubt Your Motives
Humanism and compassion isn't just for the good days...they're especially for the bad ones, the days during which humanism is the hardest to practice.
54 min
May 13, 2021 Recess Rehash: DROWNING IN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Doing stuff outside of your coursework is fantastic…until it isn’t.
Actual photograph of Gwyneth Paltrow’s “This Smells Like My Vagina” candle in use.
[Dave was suddenly called home for a family emergency, so no recording this week. Enjoy this rerun, though!]
Listener Tasneem Ahmed–a fourth-year medic at London’s King’s College–joins MD/PhD student Aline Sandouk, M4 Holly Conger, and M1s AJ Chowdhury and Alex Belzer on the show. She wrote to us at [email protected] because she wanted to talk with us about those times when extracurricular activities are too much of a good thing. These activities are important to both schools and students as a way to convey and learn vital lessons about service and career opportunities. But there is a temptation to overdo it in an attempt to distinguish oneself as a competitive applicant. Take that far enough, and it’s a recipe for exhaustion and burnout.
We also take time to compare the two systems of medical education, dance on the grave of Step 2 CS, and cover the most important story of January 2021: Gwyneth Paltrow’s exploding vagina candle.
We Want to Hear From You
How’d we do on this week’s show? Did we miss anything in our conversation? Did we anger you? Did we make you smile? Call us at 347-SHORTCT anytime or email [email protected]. It’s always a pleasure to hear from you!…
49 min

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