The Short Coat

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

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The Coming Physician Exodus...

07.29.2021

COVID taught many employees what their employees think of them. Doctors are no different. TL;DR * Most people don’t see themselves as partners in success, but as hired hands. Doctors are employees, too, and have similar issues with their employers! ...

The Short Coat episodes:

07.29.2021 The Coming Physician Exodus: Why Doctors May Leave the Profession Soon COVID taught many employees what their employees think of them. Doctors are no different. TL;DR * Most people don’t see themselves as partners in success, but as hired hands. Doctors are employees, too, and have similar issues with their employers! ...
07.22.2021 Awesome, More application Hoops! Get ready for new application requirements (and to pay more money?) TL;DR * CASPer seeks to help schools understand applicants’ non-academic and people skills. It’s never been validated, but more and more schools are using it.* Some residency programs have ...
07.15.2021 WHAT Are They REALLY LOOKING FOR IN YOUR PERSONAL STATEMENT? Top Tips from our Expert Hint: it’s NOT a dramatic, ‘lightbulb’ moment. TL;DR * 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. ...
07.08.2021 Parenting in Med School, Part 3: What About the Partners? Because med school is all-consuming, partners often take on much of the parenting tasks TL;DR * 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 ...
07.01.2021 Life Hacks for Med Students Med school life hacks are all about maximizing efficiency, minimizing friction. TL;DR * 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. ...
06.24.2021 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 ...
06.17.2021 Urology is about more than penises and prostates, ft. Men’s Health Doc Amy Pearlman, MD Serving Your Patients Shouldn’t Just Happen in the Office TL;DR * 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 ...
06.10.2021 When Life Is Getting In the Way of Med School: the Value of the Tactical Retreat. Save Your Resources to Fight Another Day 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 ...
06.03.2021 Hot Takes: Dr. Marty Makary dissects the US COVID Response, and he isn’t happy We were too slow, too cautious, and too “old-guard” in our responses to COVID TL;DR * Guest Marty Makary condemns the old way that healthcare responds to current events. * Sticking to the clinical trials process and a reluctance to ...
05.27.2021 HAVING BABIES IN MEDICAL SCHOOL Raising babies in med school is possible, with careful thought and lots of help TL;DR * The choice to become pregnant in medical school is always a difficult one to make, considering the time constraints and the physical toll it ...
05.20.2021 Practicing Humanism when patients Doubt Your Motives Humanism isn’t just for the good days. Today’s episode is sponsored by Panacea Financial, a division of Primis, member FDIC. Hope you’ll check them out!] Rick Garner, AJ Chowdhury, Alex Belzer and Eric Boeshart are on hand to discuss our ...
05.13.2021 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, ...
05.06.2021 Hitting the Wall, Then Scaling the Heights The M1 Wall is Real. You’ll Probably Have to Climb It. TL;DR * 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,” ...
04.29.2021 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 ...
04.22.2021 The New Medical Student: Tips and Tricks from First-Years A new group of co-hosts, all M1s, discuss what it’s been like to start medical school (in a pandemic). TL;DR * We discuss what our new co-hosts, all M1s, learned about themselves and med school this year.* Did they prepare ...
04.16.2021 Requiem for a Meme: Yahoo! Answers will close Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! TL;DR * 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 ...
04.09.2021 Is Your Affective Presence Killing Your Dream? You can have the best scores and grade, but personality counts TL;DR * 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 ...
04.01.2021 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 ...
03.25.2021 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 ...
03.18.2021 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 ...
03.11.2021 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 ...
03.04.2021 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, ...
02.25.2021 Good Advice: Wrong Answers Only Opinions are like *ssholes. They're everywhere. But that doesn't mean that the advice you'll get is always useful. On today's show, Marisa Evers, Rick Gardner, Eric Boeshart, and Nicole Hines discuss the advice that co-hosts have gotten during their journey ...
02.18.2021 In Med School We Trust. or not. When should med students trust their school…and when should they push back? This episode is sponsored by Panacea Financial, a division of Sonabank, member FDIC. Panacea is banking for medical students, built by doctors. Med students sometimes find it difficult ...
02.11.2021 What Jobs to Med Students Actually Do in their clerksh? The medical student’s jobs may be less than sexy, but they’re important. Photo by Oregon State University Medical students are both learners and an important part of the teaching hospital labor pool. Recently, Dave realized he doesn’t actually know–what are ...
02.04.2021 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. Listener Tasneem Ahmed–a fourth-year medic at London’s King’s College–joins MD/PhD student Aline Sandouk, M4 Holly Conger, and ...
01.28.2021 Is Medicine A Calling, or a Job? Which take on medicine is best for patients and provider mental health? Dave and the gang–including M1s AJ Chowdhury and Alex Belzer; M4 Holly Conger; and MD/PhD student Aline Sandouk–take a look at the prevalent idea that medicine is a ...
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 ...

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The Short Coat episodes:

The Coming Physician Exodus: Why Doctors May Leave the Profession Soon

Awesome, More application Hoops!

WHAT Are They REALLY LOOKING FOR IN YOUR PERSONAL STATEMENT? Top Tips from our Expert

Parenting in Med School, Part 3: What About the Partners?

Life Hacks for Med Students

HAVING BABIES IN MED SCHOOL, PT. 2: HOW DO SCHOOLS SUPPORT PARENTS?

Urology is about more than penises and prostates, ft. Men’s Health Doc Amy Pearlman, MD

When Life Is Getting In the Way of Med School: the Value of the Tactical Retreat.

Hot Takes: Dr. Marty Makary dissects the US COVID Response, and he isn’t happy

HAVING BABIES IN MEDICAL SCHOOL

Practicing Humanism when patients Doubt Your Motives

Recess Rehash: DROWNING IN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Hitting the Wall, Then Scaling the Heights

Table Rounds: Gamifying Med Ed, ft. Paulius Mui, MD

The New Medical Student: Tips and Tricks from First-Years

Requiem for a Meme: Yahoo! Answers will close

Is Your Affective Presence Killing Your Dream?

Seizing The Moment: How COVID Could Change Healthcare, Ft. Shantanu Nundy, Md

Did Match Day Implode?

Complimentary Therapy

How To Fix A Gap: Do It Yourself!

The King of Intestinal Gas

Good Advice: Wrong Answers Only

In Med School We Trust. or not.

What Jobs to Med Students Actually Do in their clerksh?

DROWNING IN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Is Medicine A Calling, or a Job?

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?

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