The Short Coat

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

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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 ...

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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 theshortcoats@gmail.com 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 theshortcoats@gmail.com!] 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 ...
02.13.2020 Why Come to the US for Residency When Turkey has Pet Parks? Turkish listener Ali would like to come to the US for residency and to practice medicine someday, so he wrote to us to ask us what we knew about how that works. Co-host Nadia Wahba happened to visit Turkey a ...
02.11.2020 Singer, Songwriter, Scientist: Rosanne Cash What does Rosanne Cash have to do with science or medicine? Sure, the American pop, folk, country, and roots rock legend isn’t technically a scientist. But it was surprising for us to learn that Rosanne Cash has the soul of ...
02.06.2020 $600,000 in med school debt?! Listener Salutes McGee (not her real name) is planning on med school after her tour of duty. What hard-won skills, she wonders, will transfer to medicine? And Krystal writes in with her med school debt worries. Will she need to ...
01.30.2020 Do These Things to Manage Your New M1 Life Listener Joseph starts medical school soon, and wants to know how to manage his new life as an M1. Luckily Kylie Miller, Kalyn Campbell, Marissa Evers, and Erica Henderson (all veteran med students) can help, Joseph--bottom line, studying is paramount, ...
01.23.2020 How residency programs misuse STEP 1 scores When listener Celebi Jigglypuff (yes, that's a pseudonym) reached out to ask whether we felt taking Step 1 after a year of clinical rotations (as some schools require) was a good idea or not, we were prepared to sink our ...
01.16.2020 First author in an 8 week summer research project? Research takes time, so what's a realistic outcome for the summer research student? Pipette LeGogettuer (not her real name) wrote in to ask for our input on her summer research plans. Not only is she struggling to come up with ...
01.14.2020 Bonus Episode: The Lost Pre-Christmas Show On a previous episode, Mason LaMarche discussed a college friend who had a habit of sketching his bowel movements. On this episode, his friend defends his artistic endeavor, while another LaMarche friend writes in with a question about mind over ...
01.09.2020 Recess Rehash: How to ADHD in Med School [Happy Holidays! Dave is on vacation, but here's a re-run to tide you over. We'll be back with new episodes starting 1/16] We on The Short Coat Podcast like to encourage people to follow their med school dreams in spite ...
01.02.2020 Recess Rehash: Choose a Specialty, Choose a Lifestyle: Factors We Consider [Happy Holidays! Dave is on vacation, but here's a re-run to tide you over. We'll be back with new episodes starting 1/16] Short Coat Scribbleson Wordsonpaper (not his real name) wrote a paper for one of his classes, and was ...
12.26.2019 Happy Holidays! This episode comes out the day after Christmas, and is recorded the week before, so we're exploring what some describe as "the most wonderful time of the year," and what others describe as Thursday. Given that recording date, in a ...
12.17.2019 Your patients’ stories will sustain you in your darkest hours (bonus ft. Dr. John Mrachek) On this bonus episode of The Short Coat, we hear from Dr. John Mrachek. Dr. Mrachek is an anesthesiologist of 17 years who reached out to us at Iowa because he'd long felt a wedge being driven between doctors and ...
12.12.2019 Freezing Development to Help Care for the Disabled (ft. Dr. Ryan Gray) The amazing Dr. Ryan Gray, host of quite a few of the pre-med focused podcasts over at mededmedia.com (of which we, of course, are a member), joins Maddie Mix, Hillary O'Brien, Nick Lind, and Kyle Kinder as guest co-host! Which ...
12.05.2019 Study Tips, Annoying Hics, and Fat Cloud Rips A question from listener Blake--do we use Anki or Brainscape for studying?--led to a discussion of the various tools and techniques Aline Sandouk (MD/PhD student), Nick Lind, Madeline Cusimano, and Mason LaMarche (all M2s) use to shove medical knowledge into ...
11.28.2019 Turkey, Telomerase, and Time-Turning Trauma Treatment Happy Thanksgiving, bishes! FYI, there’s new merch for charity (stickers!) at at theshortcoat.com/store! Also, It’s Thanksgiving Day in the United States of America, and as we ‘muricans collapse on our sofas replete with turkey with all the trimmings, let us ...
11.21.2019 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 ...
11.07.2019 How to ADHD in Med School We on The Short Coat Podcast like to encourage people to follow their med school dreams in spite of whatever apparent obstacles stand in the way. So when we found out that Jessica McCabe, host of the popular YouTube channel ...
10.31.2019 Spooky Med Student Stories! Today's show features multiple screams, so don't freak out. Because it's Halloweeeeeeeen! Co-hosts Hillary O'Brien, Jenna Johnson, Elizabeth Shirazi, and newbie Erica Noyes (all M1s) tell their scary med student stories for your entertainment. And Short Coat MD Wannabe has ...
10.24.2019 Standing Out by Presenting at Conferences Second year students Abby Fyfe, Mason LaMarche, and Madeline Cusimano offer their advice to first-year Morgan Kennedy, who confesses that she's feeling the burn of being an M1. And Mason discusses the opportunities he's had to present his undergraduate work ...
10.17.2019 Choose a Specialty, Choose a Lifestyle: Factors We Consider Short Coat Scribbleson Wordsonpaper (not his real name) wrote a paper for one of his classes, and was told it'd be worth putting it out there for publication. But where, and how? So we asked Writing and Humanities Program Director ...
10.10.2019 A Stitch In Time Saves Swine. Two questions this week from Short Coats! Listener Luis wrote in to ask what books co-hosts Hillary O'Brien, Kylie Miller, Emma Barr and newbie Sahaana Arumugam consulted to find their paths. And Mia wrote to theshortcoats@gmail.com to find out more ...
10.03.2019 Too Idealistic for Medicine? Fourth-year students David Rudolph and Chandini Reddy join co-hosts Brendan George and LJ Agistonelli to answer listener Krista's question--a self-confessed "loud mouth" with radical hopes about how she'd like to practice medicine one day. Can she bring those ideals to ...
09.26.2019 Get to Know the Nurse, Save Yourself from Grief A cliche, of course, but true. Because without the nurses (and other people) doing their jobs to help the doctor, the doctor can't do nuthin'--no IVs, no regular BP checks, no comfortable patients, no monitoring while they're home sleeping, no ...
09.19.2019 Terms and Conditions Apply Co-host and MD/PhD student Miranda Schene is a woman who has obviously been raised well. So when her mother, Ginny, wrote to theshortcoats@gmail.com asking about the surprises med school had in store for this week's gang, Dave--who also loves his ...
09.12.2019 Medicine Has a DARK Past Some of the most important contributions to knowledge have come at a terrible price. The BBC featured a story on their site about an anatomy atlas that was created by a Nazi doctor, and the images within are those of ...
09.05.2019 Elders Need Docs Who Understand Them (ft. Louise Aronson, MD) Elders are not just sickly adults. Ours is an aging society, and as the populations skews older, medicine has begun to realize that treating elder patients isn't the same as treating adults or children. Treating the conditions of older people ...
08.29.2019 Slipping On The Short Coat The first step in med school Ceremonies are important. If you’re like Dave, you think they’re a bit of a pain–you have to dress up and keep a straight face. But as a bit of (lengthy) symbolism, they do have ...
08.22.2019 Think Ahead to Save Your Soul Brandon Bacalzo and Angeline Vanle join the team as incoming medical students. Luckily for them they have the chance to put questions about med school to M2 Nick Lind and M3 Brady Campbell, including how to find the new study ...
08.15.2019 Cracking Open the Firehose For those who have been out of the student game for a while, or who feel they need a little extra time to get acclimated to the fast pace of medical education, there are programs like our Intro to Medical ...
08.08.2019 Recess Rehash: Advice for your first clinicals: slow your roll. When listener Caven wrote in asking why CCOM graduates don't include hardly any specialists and why they all seemed to be going into primary care, Dave was puzzled. While it's true that a state school like ours, serving a rural ...
08.03.2019 Recess Rehash: Here’s Vomit In Your Eyes Our charitable mission is supported in this episode by CommonBond.co/scp. Be sure to pay them a visit to learn more about their new medical school loan, and tell 'em we sent you! Admissions counselor Megan Kosovski joins the fun to ...

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The Short Coat episodes:

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???

Why Come to the US for Residency When Turkey has Pet Parks?

Singer, Songwriter, Scientist: Rosanne Cash

$600,000 in med school debt?!

Do These Things to Manage Your New M1 Life

How residency programs misuse STEP 1 scores

First author in an 8 week summer research project?

Bonus Episode: The Lost Pre-Christmas Show

Recess Rehash: How to ADHD in Med School

Recess Rehash: Choose a Specialty, Choose a Lifestyle: Factors We Consider

Happy Holidays!

Your patients’ stories will sustain you in your darkest hours (bonus ft. Dr. John Mrachek)

Freezing Development to Help Care for the Disabled (ft. Dr. Ryan Gray)

Study Tips, Annoying Hics, and Fat Cloud Rips

Turkey, Telomerase, and Time-Turning Trauma Treatment

Microaggressions: preparing to experience, witness, and commit them

How to ADHD in Med School

Spooky Med Student Stories!

Standing Out by Presenting at Conferences

Choose a Specialty, Choose a Lifestyle: Factors We Consider

A Stitch In Time Saves Swine.

Too Idealistic for Medicine?

Get to Know the Nurse, Save Yourself from Grief

Terms and Conditions Apply

Medicine Has a DARK Past

Elders Need Docs Who Understand Them (ft. Louise Aronson, MD)

Slipping On The Short Coat

Think Ahead to Save Your Soul

Cracking Open the Firehose

Recess Rehash: Advice for your first clinicals: slow your roll.

Recess Rehash: Here’s Vomit In Your Eyes

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