The Short Coat

By Dave Etler and the Students of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine

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How they can help, support, and understand what you’re doing here. “I’m afraid medical science has yet to find a cure for ‘Brown Owies,’ madam.” [We livestream our recording sessions most Fridays on our listeners Facebook group, The Short Coat ...

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01.21.2021 What You Should Tell Your FAmily About Med School How they can help, support, and understand what you’re doing here. “I’m afraid medical science has yet to find a cure for ‘Brown Owies,’ madam.” [We livestream our recording sessions most Fridays on our listeners Facebook group, The Short Coat ...
01.14.2021 MD or DO: What is the Difference? Are you an allopath or an osteopath? Photo by cogdogblog [Happy New Year! Did you know you can join The Short Coat Student Lounge on Facebook, and help us with the show? We livestream there every time we record, and ...
01.07.2021 Recess Rehash: Microaggressions: preparing to experience, witness, and commit them Good intentions are everywhere. Good behavior...well, that's more complicated. Such is the case with microaggressions, the term coined by Harvard University psychiatrist Chester Pierce in 1970 to describe minor yet hurtful comments. Pierce's original definition encompassed statements aimed at African ...
12.31.2020 Recess Rehash: This Student’s Shame is Changing Our Curriculum Doctors and medical students often have an identity based on perfection and infallibility. Often it that identity comes from their own expectations of themselves, and sometimes it comes from external sources. Whatever the source, it's both motivating and problematic to ...
12.24.2020 Vaccine Fever Happy Holidays! As we recorded this show, vaccine doses were beginning to spread across the world–well, across the rich countries of the world, anyway. The poorer countries were left with the WHO’s risky donation-funded program to distribute doses, causing concern ...
12.17.2020 Recess Rehash: Liver Bits, Cold Glocks, and Cancer of the Cancer [Last week’s show encountered some technical difficulties. So enjoy this rerun instead. We promise it’s cool.] “He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.” Photo by firepile Co-hosts Nathen Spitz, Brandon Bacalzo, Mariam Mansour, and Greta Becker rehash ...
12.10.2020 AMA: Racism is a Public health Threat. SCP Co-hosts: Gosh, really? [This episode is sponsored by Panacea Financial, a Division of Sonabank, Member FDIC. Please support our sponsor by visiting https://panaceafinancial.com/] In mid-November, the American Medical Association declared racism to be a public health threat. With that declaration, they adopted policies ...
12.03.2020 Recess Rehash: When Doctors Do Harm ft. Danielle Ofri, MD Hippocrates set a high bar. [Hope your Thanksgiving was excellent, safe, and happy! We didn’t record anything this week, so here’s a rerun for you.]Dr. Danielle Ofri–NYU professor of medicine, Bellevue Hospital internist, and author of great renown–joined us this ...
11.26.2020 Quality over Quantity: Clinical Experiences and Volunteering in COVID Times [This episode is sponsored by Panacea Financial, a Division of Sonabank, Member FDIC. Please support our sponsor by visiting https://panaceafinancial.com/] The Short Coats have begun livestreaming their recordings in our Facebook group (most Fridays at noon central–join us and be ...
11.19.2020 What About Choosing the Cheapest Medical School? Given how much med school costs, isn’t it best to go for your cheapest option? [This episode is sponsored by Panacea Financial, a Division of Sonabank, Member FDIC. Please support our sponsor by visiting https://panaceafinancial.com/] A listener we’re calling Victor ...
11.12.2020 To Leave or Not To Leave Should Jenna broaden her horizons by moving away for medical school? Photo by merra marie [This episode is sponsored by Panacea Financial, a Division of Sonabank, Member FDIC. Please support our sponsor by visiting https://panaceafinancial.com/] Listener Jenna got into Carver ...
11.05.2020 The Power and Perils of Prestige in Med Ed Name recognition is great, but it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. So Fancy! Listener Morgan wrote in to ask what we thought about Ivy League schools with high name recognition, and whether it should be an important factor ...
10.29.2020 Choosing Your Clinical Education: Community Hospital or Academic Medical Center? Photo by quinn.anya On this episode, M2s Nathen Spitz and Sahaana Arumugam, M3 Emma Barr, and MD/PhD student Aline Sandouk reminisce about simpler Halloween times, when the only thing to worry about was whether your costume was going to be ...
10.22.2020 Md/PhD worries: Transitioning to the Lab Next semester Madi Wahlen will enter the PhD phase of her MD/PhD journey, and the though to that transition makes her kind of nervous. Fortunately, both she and Aline Sandouk were on this week’s episode, allowing space for Madi (and ...
10.15.2020 On Top or Down Low: The Status Hierarchies in Medicine ft. Tania Jenkins, PhD What you should know about the super hierarchical world of medicine Have you ever wondered what the world of medicine would look like to an ethnographer? To University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Professor Tania Jenkins, perhaps it looks like ...
10.08.2020 Chronic Conditions in Medical School What having a chronic health issue means to medical students varies…except that it will make them even better doctors. Listener Michael has type one diabetes and “an incredibly rare form” of epilepsy. He’s pretty open about this and plans to ...
10.01.2020 The Doctor is Burned Out ft. Jeff Moody, MD We are honored to talk with author and physician Jeff Moody, University of Iowa College of Medicine class of ’92, and urologist, here to talk with us about physician burnout, It’s the topic of his new book The Doctor is ...
09.24.2020 Flyover Country? Far From It! Things happen in Iowa. They really do. That’s why Dave put together a little trivia contest for his co-hosts–Sahaana Arumugam, Emma Barr, Aline Sandouk, and Brandon Bacalzo–to test their knowledge of the excitement that is Iowa. But first, we discuss ...
09.17.2020 Liver Bits, Cold Glocks, and Cancer of the Cancer “He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.” Photo by firepile Co-hosts Nathen Spitz, Brandon Bacalzo, Mariam Mansour, and Greta Becker rehash their recent microbiology exam which they say kicked their butts, and how they deal with that ...
09.10.2020 Recess Rehash: MD/MBA: Why Physicians Must Know More About Business Does a physician need to know everything about healthcare, even the shudder money stuff? [Dave was out of the office on recording day last week, so enjoy this rerun!] Physicians go through years and years of school to be great ...
09.08.2020 BONUS: The challenges of Refugee Healthcare with Dr. Akihiro Seita The UN Relief and Works Agency has a tough job, especially in Palestine. In this bonus episode (recorded prior to the US pa we talk with Dr. Akihiro Seita, the Director of Health and WHO Special Representative to The United ...
09.03.2020 “Preference Signaling” –the Future of Applications? Preference Signaling Tokens may be a way to combat over-applying for residencies, but the schemes have a ways to go yet before they’re ready for prime time. Dear Residency Program: I love you. Do you love me? Check YES or ...
08.27.2020 does a DO Degree Ruin your Speciality plans? Listener Shivam wrote to [email protected] to ask his question: does becoming a DO hinder one’s chances in competitive specialties? MD/PhD students Aline Sandouk and Sahaana Arumugam, M2 Nathan Spitz, and M4 Marisa Evers weigh in, while Dave uses his tiny ...
08.20.2020 A COVID Puzzle in a Rural Iowa Community Why was the Hispanic population in Clarion, Iowa seeing so many more infections? Wright County Courthouse, Clarion, Iowa. Photo by Brandonrush (Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication) Dr. Michael McLoughlin, internist at Clarion Clinic, was puzzled. Why were ...
08.13.2020 Putting on your #MedBikini A study is only as good as its methods, and the #medbikini study wasn’t pretty bad. Maybe you heard: some researchers tried to help vascular surgeons understand that their social media profiles might contain “unprofessional” content. Things like wearing swimsuits ...
08.06.2020 When Doctors Do Harm ft. Danielle Ofri, MD Hippocrates set a high bar. Dr. Danielle Ofri–NYU professor of medicine, Bellevue Hospital internist, and author of great renown–joined us this time to talk about her new book, When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error. Examining medical errors ...
07.30.2020 Recess Rehash: Is Academic Medicine Right For You? Academic medicine--in which a physician works at a university and may have research and/or teaching duties in addition to patient care--is but one of the fulfilling options available to medical students. What's that lifestyle like? That's the question an anonymous ...
07.23.2020 MD/MBA: Why Physicians Must Know More About Business Does a physician need to know everything about healthcare, even the shudder money stuff? Physicians go through years and years of school to be great at this calling, so why on earth would anyone want to tack on an MBA, ...
07.16.2020 How A Young FAmily Should Think About The Risks Of Med School No doubt about it, this road to becoming a physician has financial risks It feels risky to go to medical school, and for someone with a young family, like our listener who sent us their question to [email protected], those risks ...
07.09.2020 AAMC ‘s VITA interview tool…is it Really Vital? Photo by brianna.lehman Listener Soma let us know that the AAMC has released an interview app for medical schools to collect videos of applicants answers to some standard questions. Their website says the tool addresses the needs expressed by its ...
07.02.2020 What Every Med Student Needs To Know About Being a Leader ft. Brent Lacey, MD Being a physician leaves you no choice–you ARE going to lead. Dr. Brent Lacey is a gastroenterologist who is passionate about helping physicians succeed with business and personal finances. As a physician, he understands how overwhelming it can be to ...
06.26.2020 What med students do when they don’t know the right answer It feels risky to be wrong…here’s how to get used to that [Don’t forget to share the show with your friends and family–send a screenshot of the share to [email protected] to get a free thank you gift from Dave!] The ...
06.18.2020 The Right (and Wrong) Ways to Get Help with Your Application [Once again, our circumstances force us to endure mild sound quality issues. Sorry, but that’s round-table podcasting in the pandemic age. You’ll be alright.] We got some lovely responses back from listeners of last week’s show (in which we discussed ...
06.11.2020 Timing a peace-corps gap year, and Racism and Medicine A group of public professionals, infectious disease professionals and community members are pushing back on the common perception that #BLM protests will unnecessarily exacerbate the pandemic. This news leads to a discussion of racism in America. NB: The discussion should ...
06.04.2020 the activities Admissions Committees Love to See Logan wrote in to comment on what we call 'box-checking,' the idea that med school admissions committees only want applicants who've done all the best activities and lots of them, and that applicants must participate in activities that "stand out" ...
05.29.2020 Applying: Your Experience Is A Bonus, If You Can Tell The Right Story [Would you like a FREE Short Coat pin made by Dave’s own two hands? Share an episode of SCP online and email a screenshot to [email protected]!] Listener Christy has several years as a South Carolina emergency department nurse under her ...
05.21.2020 More Signs that Med School Will Be Different This Fall [This episode is brought to you by Pattern. We hope you’ll check out their disability insurance offerings for docs at http://patternlife.com/partner/shortcoat.] As many of us are, The Short Coats–including this week’s M1 co-hosts Nathen Spitz, Maddie Wahlen, and Caitlin Matteson–have ...
05.14.2020 This Student’s Shame is Changing Our Curriculum Doctors and medical students often have an identity based on perfection and infallibility. Often it that identity comes from their own expectations of themselves, and sometimes it comes from external sources. Whatever the source, it's both motivating and problematic to ...
05.08.2020 Crush It In Your Zoom Interview Your future could include video conference interviews. Avoid (at all costs) giving interviewers a reason to say no. Photo by hang_in_there This episode is brought to you by Pattern. We hope you’ll check out their disability insurance offerings for docs ...
04.30.2020 Exploring Your New Med School City Moving to a new place can be daunting–but it’s an amazing opportunity! This episode is brought to you by Pattern. We hope you’ll check out their disability insurance offerings for docs at http://patternlife.com/partner/shortcoat. Photo by ~jar{} Listener Noodles (not her ...
04.23.2020 How the Sausage is Made: Why Doctors–and Students–Must Engage In Politics Photo by greyloch Policy is not sexy. I mean, it’s not saving lives, or curing disease, or making groundbreaking discoveries. But it isn’t a stretch to say that policy is as important as any of these, because politicians are making ...
04.16.2020 Recess Rehash: Why you’re better off on day one not knowing what kind of doc you want to be. [Due to one thing or another, we didn’t record last week. So here’s a re-run. Hey, if Radiolab can do it, so can we. Enjoy!] Med school may be a trying experience, but it’s made so much better by the ...
04.09.2020 the crudest patient Dave wants to help his co-hosts--M1s Nathan Spitz, Cody West, and newbs Chris Halbur and Eli Schmidt--in their journey to physician-hood, so he puts on his medical educator hat and visits Yahoo! Answers. He also discovers that when discussing his ...
04.02.2020 What We’re Still Doing, What Brings Us Joy Dave asked listeners what they’re doing to help out in the time of COVID-19 and got some responses back to talk about. These things, whether big or small, directly related or tangential to this public health crisis–even if it means ...
03.26.2020 Podcasting from A (social) distance (For the first time ever, we did the show with all five hosts in different places, and it shows. Forgive the scratchy audio in some places. We're working on it, and hope you can look past it this time.) In ...
03.19.2020 Covid-19 could change the world…forever There's no doubt that the global pandemic of COVID-19 has caused much human suffering. And for those people around the world who are the worst affected, know that you have our deepest sympathies. No one should have to go through ...
03.12.2020 Why you’re better off on day one not knowing what kind of doc you want to be. Med school may be a trying experience, but it’s made so much better by the lifelong friends you meet. That’s the case for today’s co-hosts, Kylie Miller, Olivia Pittman, Danielle Schilling, and Erin Pazaski, all M4s. Their experience turns out ...
03.05.2020 Holding out for your dream school Emotions are difficult to ignore. Especially when those emotions are telling us to ACT NOW! That's what listener Jordan from Texas is fighting as he happily gets an acceptance from his backup, with no word from his dream school. Should ...
02.27.2020 Is Academic Medicine Right For You? Academic medicine--in which a physician works at a university and may have research and/or teaching duties in addition to patient care--is but one of the fulfilling options available to medical students. What's that lifestyle like? That's the question an anonymous ...
02.20.2020 Step 1 is Pass/Fail. Now what??? The news that the USMLE changed the all-important Step 1 exam--which many residency programs have been using improperly to stratify applicants and which can affect one's specialty choice--to pass/fail starting in 2022-ish caused quite a bit of shock and consternation ...

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The Short Coat episodes:

What You Should Tell Your FAmily About Med School

MD or DO: What is the Difference?

Recess Rehash: Microaggressions: preparing to experience, witness, and commit them

Recess Rehash: This Student’s Shame is Changing Our Curriculum

Vaccine Fever

Recess Rehash: Liver Bits, Cold Glocks, and Cancer of the Cancer

AMA: Racism is a Public health Threat. SCP Co-hosts: Gosh, really?

Recess Rehash: When Doctors Do Harm ft. Danielle Ofri, MD

Quality over Quantity: Clinical Experiences and Volunteering in COVID Times

What About Choosing the Cheapest Medical School?

To Leave or Not To Leave

The Power and Perils of Prestige in Med Ed

Choosing Your Clinical Education: Community Hospital or Academic Medical Center?

Md/PhD worries: Transitioning to the Lab

On Top or Down Low: The Status Hierarchies in Medicine ft. Tania Jenkins, PhD

Chronic Conditions in Medical School

The Doctor is Burned Out ft. Jeff Moody, MD

Flyover Country? Far From It!

Liver Bits, Cold Glocks, and Cancer of the Cancer

Recess Rehash: MD/MBA: Why Physicians Must Know More About Business

BONUS: The challenges of Refugee Healthcare with Dr. Akihiro Seita

“Preference Signaling” –the Future of Applications?

does a DO Degree Ruin your Speciality plans?

A COVID Puzzle in a Rural Iowa Community

Putting on your #MedBikini

When Doctors Do Harm ft. Danielle Ofri, MD

Recess Rehash: Is Academic Medicine Right For You?

MD/MBA: Why Physicians Must Know More About Business

How A Young FAmily Should Think About The Risks Of Med School

AAMC ‘s VITA interview tool…is it Really Vital?

What Every Med Student Needs To Know About Being a Leader ft. Brent Lacey, MD

What med students do when they don’t know the right answer

The Right (and Wrong) Ways to Get Help with Your Application

Timing a peace-corps gap year, and Racism and Medicine

the activities Admissions Committees Love to See

Applying: Your Experience Is A Bonus, If You Can Tell The Right Story

More Signs that Med School Will Be Different This Fall

This Student’s Shame is Changing Our Curriculum

Crush It In Your Zoom Interview

Exploring Your New Med School City

How the Sausage is Made: Why Doctors–and Students–Must Engage In Politics

Recess Rehash: Why you’re better off on day one not knowing what kind of doc you want to be.

the crudest patient

What We’re Still Doing, What Brings Us Joy

Podcasting from A (social) distance

Covid-19 could change the world…forever

Why you’re better off on day one not knowing what kind of doc you want to be.

Holding out for your dream school

Is Academic Medicine Right For You?

Step 1 is Pass/Fail. Now what???

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