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The Short Coat

The HONEST guide to medical school, featuring real students from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine–skip this show if you’d rather not know (and hate laughter)!

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The Multiple Mini Interview, the Prince of Funk, and the Erosion of Childhood

The Multiple Mini Interview, the Prince of Funk, and the Erosion of Childhood

Prince has left the building, so The Short Coats take a moment to eulogize the Purple One. Listener Rayhaan is looking ... Read more

28 Apr 2016

51mins

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Your Romance Could End In Tears, But It Doesn’t Have To!

Your Romance Could End In Tears, But It Doesn’t Have To!

We're devoting this episode to the perils of love between med students and their non-medical partners. Despite the clic... Read more

11 Apr 2019

1hr 2mins

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The Harsh Truths and Pleasant Realities of Med School

The Harsh Truths and Pleasant Realities of Med School

Happy New Year! With the holidays slowing down the pace of listener questions, Dave asks new co-host LJ Agostinelli and... Read more

3 Jan 2019

58mins

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Night Float: Choosing a Specialty

Night Float: Choosing a Specialty

From an early age people are asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Whether they knew it all along or discove... Read more

20 Dec 2017

27mins

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Your Pre-med Clinical Experience Can Cost You Money and Waste Your Time…and Hurt Your Application.

Your Pre-med Clinical Experience Can Cost You Money and Waste Your Time…and Hurt Your Application.

Medical school admissions committees look for clinical experiences on applications, so it behooves premeds to seek out w... Read more

19 Jan 2017

50mins

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Post-acceptance anxiety, Match stats, and backup plans.

Post-acceptance anxiety, Match stats, and backup plans.

Listener Oscar's having the pre-med/post-acceptance jitters; luckily Aline, Marc, Dylan, and Lisa are on hand to offer s... Read more

31 Mar 2016

39mins

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Rejection Happens

Rejection Happens

Euthalia (not her actual name, though it probably should be. Feel free to take that name, anonymous caller) called us at... Read more

21 Sep 2017

30mins

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Your Gap Year Job Doesn’t Matter

Your Gap Year Job Doesn’t Matter

A flood of listener questions this week! It's probably due in part to medical school application season has begun, whic... Read more

22 Jun 2017

49mins

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Bonus Episode! Palliative Care: A Perspective from A Land Where It Barely Exists, ft. Dr. MR Rajagopal

Bonus Episode! Palliative Care: A Perspective from A Land Where It Barely Exists, ft. Dr. MR Rajagopal

In most of India, palliative care--a medical specialty focused on improving the quality of life of people with life-limi... Read more

2 Oct 2018

46mins

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Choose a Specialty, Choose a Lifestyle: Factors We Consider

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... Read more

17 Oct 2019

1hr 5mins

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General Haze-pital

General Haze-pital

Improvisational acting is a greater part of medical school than one might expect. Between pretending to be doctors for ... Read more

27 Apr 2017

46mins

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Recess Rehash: Medical School Secondary Applications: What Do They Want?

Recess Rehash: Medical School Secondary Applications: What Do They Want?

A listener wants to know more about the secondary application. Given the the turnaround time often recommended (a week)... Read more

3 Aug 2017

52mins

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Reaffirming points of pride, and life in rural Iowa

Reaffirming points of pride, and life in rural Iowa

Dave has been noticing a certain mid-semester droopiness among some students at the College of Medicine. Perhaps, he co... Read more

2 Nov 2017

45mins

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Are physicians hopeless in the face of the obesity epidemic?

Are physicians hopeless in the face of the obesity epidemic?

Listener Hannah wrote in after shadowing physicians, noting that many of the morbidly obese patients she observed resist... Read more

20 Sep 2018

58mins

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Cardiothoracic Surgery: A Woman’s World, For Dr. Sharon Larson

Cardiothoracic Surgery: A Woman’s World, For Dr. Sharon Larson

Dr. Sharon Larson is Iowa's first female cardiothoracic surgeon. You might be forgiven for thinking that Iowa's been a ... Read more

9 Mar 2017

47mins

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Sacrifice It All to be A Med Student? Don’t Do It!

Sacrifice It All to be A Med Student? Don’t Do It!

The world of work, and medical school, is often about adjusting for a number of "top" priorities. Dave's been having o... Read more

23 Jul 2017

46mins

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Advice for your first clinicals: slow your roll.

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 b... Read more

27 Jun 2019

1hr 6mins

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The Laws that are Shrinking the Telomeres of OB/Gyn Residents

The Laws that are Shrinking the Telomeres of OB/Gyn Residents

Admissions counselor Megan Kosovski joins Aline Sandouk, Emma Barr, Nick Lind, and Hannah Van Ert for this show, because... Read more

23 May 2019

1hr 3mins

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