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...
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Listen to The Short Coat Podcast, a Education podcast by The Students of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Stream 410 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 410 episodesGame 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...
Med School Stereotypes Shattered: What We’re Really Like Inside (Recess Rehash)
We've all got that mental image of medical students – the type-A perfectionists grinding through textbooks even on the porcelain throne, rig...
From EKG Meltdowns to OSCE Roller Coasters (or Treadmills): '25-26 Med School Vibes Recap
The Carver Carnival is the Carver College of Medicine's unofficial exhale — an end-of-year celebration where students who have been running...
MD/PhD: The Long Game of Medicine and Research
Riley Behan-Bush found the MD/PhD program through a Google search. Hannah Van Ert had already started a career in nursing before a research...
Iowa City Haunts and Med School Hot Takes
For the full list of our favorite places, visit https://theshortcoat.com/haunts. Iowa City is small enough that you can bike from the hospit...
Medical Students Judge Reddit’s Messiest Dilemmas (AITA)
Dave and his M1 co-hosts Lily Schmidt, Melia Patrick, Jonah Albrecht, and Anna Royer, take a field trip to Reddit's AITA sub— because self-r...
Their Last Free Summer: How Four M1s Are Spending It
Four medical students— Lily Schmidt, Melia Patrick, Jonah Albrecht, and Anna Royer— talk through how they landed on their "last free summer...
The Doctor Doesn't Know Either: Inside the Diagnostic Crisis
The feedback loop that would make doctors better diagnosticians doesn’t exist. Louise walked five minutes. Then her legs turned to sto...
Blechardy Returns: Trivia, Wet Dog Beans, and Bad Guesses
When the prize for a correct answer might be a poop-flavored jelly bean, getting it wrong is the best strategy. What if you answer a trivia...
"Ego Death?!" M4s Talk Audition Rotations
How Away Rotations play into getting that dream residency Among all the strange things about medical school, there’s the so-called ...
What are Med Students Reading: Book Club!
If reading makes better docs, these guys will be incredible. What if the cure for doctor-speak was actually just… reading more books?...
Medical Student Identity: What the White Coat Means
The Hippocratic oath moment that turns anxious students into future physicians—even before they’ve treated a single patient You’...
From Fire Hose to Final Decision–How Med Students Choose Careers (Recess Rehash)
[Last week was Spring Break here at Iowa. It was also Match Week, so this rerun from last year is worth a second look!] Picking a Career in...
Step Exams: Ready Or Not Here They Come
Three exams that might drive you crazy. If you’re a pre-med, you may have heard about Step exams. But what are they? When the hell are...
The Med School Traditions That Make Lifelong Bonds
Building community through experiences Tradition is a big part of medical school–med students willingly tie themselves to comedy shows...
Things You Can Do To Prepare for Med School (and One Thing You Shouldn’t!)
Prioritize Fun! What should you do with the time between getting accepted to medical school and orientation week? Fallon Jung, Anna Royer, J...
Choosing a Professional Identity: Beyond Medical School Classes
How medical schools help students figure out what kind of doctor they’ll be. Looking at medical school and wondering what you’ll...
Med Students on Long Distance Love: Does It Last?
When medical school forces couples apart, students face tough realities Medical students dish on the messy, tender, and surprisingly philoso...