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

May 06, 2021 Hitting the Wall, Then Scaling the Heights
* Taking the med ed bull by the horns in a purposeful way will get your through one of the toughest moments.
* Given any definition of “success,” a medical student who succeeds in medical school engages “like they paid for it.”
* The definition of “success” doesn’t necessarily include honors grades or high scores. If you choose what it means, you will succeed!
55 min
April 29, 2021 Table Rounds: Gamifying Med Ed, ft. Paulius Mui, MD
How Gaming Can Help You Learn Medicine Better
TL;DR
Rote memorization is part of medical education, but drawing deeper connections between concepts is what makes you a physician.
Medical school emphasizes finding the correct answer, but when you begin to practice medicine you’ll find that the answers are much more complex than that.
Although moving from med school to residency can be scary–as with any transition–Paulius found it to be easier than he expected.
Dr. Paulius Mui is a first-year family medicine resident in Virginia, and a long-time listener (since before med school!). He wrote to Dave not long ago because he had published a game called Table Rounds. It’s a game he and his friends in med school had made up, and now he’s working to bring it into the world as an actual product.
Paulius sent Dave a copy of the game, and M1s AJ Chowdhury, Alex Belzer, Nolan Redetzke, and M4 Joyce Wahba play the game. Players use cards–each with a medical term or concept on it–to draw connections between them. The connections can be deep or they can be spurious, but if you can make your case you’re a winner. But perhaps more importantly, it’s a game that you can make your own, coming up with rules that make it even more interesting and helpful.
Paulius also gives his advice to Joyce, who’s about to start her residency in Emergency Medicine, and discusses his first-year as a resident beginning while the pandemic raged.
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51 min
April 22, 2021 The New Medical Student: Tips and Tricks from First-Years
Often a discussion of medicine as a career is discussed in terms of sacrifices made. What sacrifices have our co-hosts made? How did they prepare or study before they started school in the fall? Did they find their people, or did pandemic online medical education get in the way?
1 hr 1 min
April 16, 2021 Requiem for a Meme: Yahoo! Answers will close
Should Victoria also get a law degree to facilitate a career in health policy?
Shea sends feedback on our recent discussion of options for unmatched MD Seniors
We practice answering patient questions with a straight face by visiting Yahoo! Answers for what might be the last time!
Resources: 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 list 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;
54 min
April 09, 2021 Is Your Affective Presence Killing Your Dream?
Affective presence is the lasting and stable impressions your interaction partners get from you.
Your scores and grades only get you in the door.
It's your personality that makes you a medical student, and later, a doctor. So make sure you're giving off the right vibes!
Listener Kalmen reminds us of a paths for some students who don't match.
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 list to [email protected]. We love you.
Resources: 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 list 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;
54 min
April 01, 2021 Seizing The Moment: How COVID Could Change Healthcare, Ft. Shantanu Nundy, Md
COVID stressed healthcare but showed us a better future.
TL;DR
COVID revealed what’s broken in healthcare, and also offers a glimpse of how it can be fixed
Distributed, decentralized and digital isn’t about technology, but about putting patients at the center of healthcare.
Read Dr. Nundy’s book Care After Covid: What the Pandemic Revealed Is Broken in Healthcare and How to Reinvent It.
Care After COVID…by Shantanu Nundy, MD
This episode is sponsored by Panacea Financial, Member FDIC. Panacea is banking for physicians and medical students!
Shantanu Nundy, MD, is no stranger to healthcare policy and patient care. He’s a physician, entrepreneur and technologist “passionate about reinventing healthcare for all.” He’s a CMO for a company working to improve health outcomes, a primary care doc in the Washington, DC area, and a lecturer in health policy at the George Washington Milken Institute for Public Health and advisor to the World Bank Group on digital health and innovation.
So we were grateful that he offered to sit down with Dave, M4 Holly Conger, M1s AJ Chowdhury and Rick Gardner, and M3 Emma Barr to talk about his new book Care After COVID. He shows us a future that COVID has revealed as possible for healthcare if we have the will to make it happen: in which technology is a tool that puts patients at the center of everything physicians and systems do.
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56 min
March 25, 2021 Did Match Day Implode?
How did COVID affect the 2021 Match?
This week's sponsor, Panacea Financial (Member FDIC) is giving away $500 to five students participating in the 2021 Match.
Match Week is huge for senior medical students. It's the week they find out if they will continue their training (yikes!), and where in the country they will go to complete it...and this year's match was even more anxiety provoking than usual due to COVID. Were our fears--of large numbers of unmatched applicants, programs with many unfilled positions, and students unfairly penalized by virtual interviews--realized? We try to figure it out with the stats available to us just an hour before recording.
Some Grand Rapids, Michigan residents were very bad on Instagram. Hey, future and current students--keep other peoples resected organs off social media, and while you're at it, you really aren't supposed to take pictures in the OR without consent. M'kay?
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36 min
March 18, 2021 Complimentary Therapy
The Art of Compliments
Photo by Ross Dunn
Our sponsor, Panacea Financial, is having a giveaway! 5 students in the 2021 Match will get $500 in their Match Day Giveaway, so head on over to find out more!
It must have been a bad week for someone, because Dave thought it’d be great to have a compliment festival. Of course, compliments have a huge role in learning, though Dave wasn’t sure there were enough opportunities for getting compliments during the pre-clinical years. So he asked M1s AJ Chowdhury, Nicole Hines, and Rick Gardner, and M4 Marisa Evers to join him in complimenting each other just for fun.
Here’s the benefit Rick mentioned in the show: Shooting Hoops for Shelter House. And just in case this whole medicine thing doesn’t work out, we took a very scientific BuzzFeed quiz to decide on our alternate careers.
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40 min
March 11, 2021 How To Fix A Gap: Do It Yourself!
No school, employer, or profession is perfect; and lots of times, you have to step up to fix it.
Photo by Georgie Pauwels
This episode’s sponsor, Panacea Financial, is having a Match Day Giveaway! Med students in the 2021 Match can enter to be one of five students who will win $500! Enter at panaceafinancial.com/matchday.
Long time SCP listener and CCOM M4 Austin Kazarian joins us on the show to talk about the personal finance course he proposed and helped create. Wait, isn’t there enough to learn in medicine? There is, but as long as med school debt is a problem, it’s important to learn how to deal with it, as well as many other financial issues that exist for new residents. Join him, MD/MBA student Gabe Conley, and M4s Joyce Wahba and Tim Maxwell for a discussion on how medical students can fix the inevitable gaps in their schools’ curricula, and why it’s important to look for a joint that’ll take your suggestions and let you lead with them (and see this article, and the Academic Medicine commentary discussed during the show). And if you want to bring Austin’s personal finance for physicians curriculum to your school, he’ll share his proposal with you to get started–drop him a DM @AustinKazarian.
Also, Dave gives the crew a news quiz. Were you paying attention these past few weeks?
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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!…
54 min
March 04, 2021 The King of Intestinal Gas
This episode is sponsored by Panacea Financial, a Division of Sonabank, Member FDIC. Panacea is banking for medical students and doctors.
Every once in a while, Dave likes to just get to know his med student co-hosts better. This time, in order to accomplish that goal, he invited each of them–M1s Rick Gardner, AJ Chowdhury, Alex Belzer, and M4 Tim Maxwell–to bring some converation starters with them. Is it relevant? Sure, if you squint your ears real hard, jeez, can’t you guys give up on clinical relevance every so often and just have some fun?
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!…
46 min

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