What's Med Student Research For?
What does research actually do for a medical student, and who is it really for? The Short Coats--M2s Jonah Albrecht and Regan DeMaris, and M...
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The Short Coat Podcast
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20 of 427 episodesBlechardy! The trivia Game That No One really wins
It's Blechardy, the trivia game with jelly beans, and it's a total rip-off of other games that don't have jelly beans. Dave Etler hosts, pro...
Does Your Personality Pick Your Medical Specialty?
Does Your Personality Pick Your Medical Specialty? The guy who discovered handwashing prevented deaths after childbirth was kind of a jerk,...
Back in the Closet on a Rural Rotation: Queer in Medicine
M3 Jacob Thompson, M2s Charis Edwards and Cyrus Barati, and Dr. Katie Imborek talk about being LGBTQ+ in medicine: coming out over and over...
Five Med Students on Thriving in Clerkships
Dave sits down with a crew of M3s and one asterisked MSTP M4 — Riley Behan-Bush, Samantha Gardner, Srishti Mathur, Sahana Sarin, and Sarah U...
Med Students React: Social Media from Helpful to Hogwash (Recess Rehash)
On this episode, M3 Fallon Jung, M1s Alexis Baker and Cory Karasek, and M2 Maria Schapfel let loose on the internet's wildest health content...
Imposter Syndrome, Uncomfortable Fails, and Med School's Real Ups and Downs
The Short Coat records in front of a live audience — a room full of brand-new medical students at the University of Iowa Carver College of M...
DNP Doubts, Prepping for Patients, and Smarts Self-Doubt--listener questions answered! (Recess Rehash)
Real answers for your real med school dilemmas. We’ve had some listener question stacking up like it’s the ER waiting room at shift change—a...
How A Neurologist Thinks about The Self, ft. Masud Husain
Dave's got a brain — he's pretty sure, anyway, since the MRI never mentioned otherwise — and this week he, with M3 Gizzy Lundquist and M2s A...
From Bartending to Bedside: What Our Pre-Med Jobs Taught Us About Medicine (Recess Rehash)
If you're thinking of starting over and going to med school, you might wonder what your previous jobs have done to prepare you for it. Good...
Clown Shoes, Attending Feedback, and a Very Quiet Goose
This week M3s Srishti Mathur and Zach Grissom are joined by CCOM admissions expert Rachel Shulista and the PA Program clinicals coordinator...
Feedback, Filler Words, and Fights Over Naturopathic Medicine
M2s Akshaj Joshi, Anna Royer, Charis Edwards, and Cory Karasek talk about giving and receiving feedback, what it's like reading a stack of e...
Should Medical Students have Babies (spoiler: yeah, baby!)
M2 Jack Klitgaard and M4 Fallon Jung are both expecting newborns in the coming months. M2 Regan Demaris has a couple toddlers already, and C...
Free Med School and a Mission: Is Military Medicine For You?
For pre-meds staring down six figures of debt, the military offers something rare: a fully funded path through medical school built around a...
These Iowa PA Students Are Riding 68 Miles for Cancer Prevention (BONUS EP)
Isabel Ahmann, Alex Fouts, and Nia Tanui, and Giana Michels just survived their first year of PA school alongside the MDs, and to celebrate...
Roshan Sethi on Med School Simpering and Making It in Hollywood
Radiation oncologist and director Roshan Sethi: confidence in medicine is mostly performance. The book club is back, and M2s Anna Royer, Ell...
Medicine is Changing. Step Up and Shape It
As societies and governments wrestle with the rise of artificial intelligence, The Short coats sit down with Dr. Lindsey Knake, a CCOM alum...
The No-Guilt Summer: Med Students Finally Breathe
It's freeform Friday on the pod, which means the Iowa City parking situation is excellent, the rising M2s are bored and slightly guilty abou...
Game of Med School — We Actually Made It
Can The Short Coats make a card game that captures the twists and turns of medical school? Well, we've given it a try, and now we finally pl...
Foreign Competition for Residency: The Data vs. The Rhetoric
The $100,000 H-1b visa fee landed in September 2025 like a fire alarm in the hallways of medicine—hospitals panicked, advocacy groups mobili...