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Broadcasts from the amazing and intense world of medical school.
Four medical students— Lily Schmidt, Melia Patrick, Jonah Albrecht, and Anna Royer— talk through how they landed on their "last free summer...
The feedback loop that would make doctors better diagnosticians doesn’t exist. Louise walked five minutes. Then her legs turned to sto...
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...
How Away Rotations play into getting that dream residency Among all the strange things about medical school, there’s the so-called ...
If reading makes better docs, these guys will be incredible. What if the cure for doctor-speak was actually just… reading more books?...
The Hippocratic oath moment that turns anxious students into future physicians—even before they’ve treated a single patient You’...
[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...
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...
Building community through experiences Tradition is a big part of medical school–med students willingly tie themselves to comedy shows...
Prioritize Fun! What should you do with the time between getting accepted to medical school and orientation week? Fallon Jung, Anna Royer, J...
How medical schools help students figure out what kind of doctor they’ll be. Looking at medical school and wondering what you’ll...
When medical school forces couples apart, students face tough realities Medical students dish on the messy, tender, and surprisingly philoso...
The Heart Wants What It Wants. In this Valentine’s Day episode, four medical students sit down to play the ultimate compatibility game...
Slather some beef tallow on it. On this episode, M3 Fallon Jung, M1s Isa Perez-Sandi and Cory Karasek, and M2 Maria Schapfel let loose on th...
Don’t give up the outside activities that’ll make you a better doc As Dave has observed many times, medicine will take everythin...
[Content warning: Dave did his best to remove sniffles.] Spicy chicken nuggets, bad decisions, and what happens when medical students test t...
What to expect for med students moving from classroom to exam room The beginning of clerkships mark a medical student’s progress from...
[ICYMI, here’s a rerun of a show released earlier this year. We’ll be back with new shows starting next week!] How the system pays doctors c...
[It’s winter break, and everything has come to a halt here, including podcasting. We’ll be back soon, promise!] Reddit’s “Am I t...
An alternative to postbac programs? Postbac programs are okay, but what if there was another path to medical school? M2s Sarah Upton, Alec M...
[We weren’t available to record a new show for you this week, so enjoy this rerun instead!] Clinical students are sometimes the only o...
These M1s say it wasn’t easy…but it was FUN? You know medical school is hard, but what does that mean? That idea has no emotiona...
[Due to Thanksgiving break, we have no new episode this week for you, but here’s a good one from our back catalog!] When your boyfrien...
[Content warning: this episode contains frank discussions of death and dying that some listeners may want to skip.] Doctors need to actually...
Three med students who didn’t get in at first talk about why. Thousands of med school applicants are going to feel the sting of reject...
The Truths and Solutions for Small-Town Healthcare. We’re talking about rural medicine, where the needs are huge, the systems are broken, an...
Is “work-life balance” is a myth in medical school? What do successful students do to manage leadership positions, marriage, kids, and acade...
Turns out medical students are regular humans who happen to need to memorize the Krebs cycle. We’ve all got that mental image of medical stu...
What med students wish their families actually understood about medical school. Your family means well… but when you start med school, sudde...
No med student starts with a blank slate. If you’re thinking of starting over and going to med school, you might wonder what your previous j...
Medical School is Now More of a Gamble thanks to the “Big Beautiful Bill.” We sit down with Chris Roling, University of Iowa’s financial aid...
MDs have main character energy, but don’t ignore Physician Assistants. We talk a lot about medical students on this podcast, but at Iowa we...
Med School ROI: Still Worth the Debt? Doctors make bank, so why do they feel poor? We’re breaking down the brutal reality of medical money m...
What med schools don’t tell you about hitting pause. Turns out, pausing med school can actually be the smartest career move. Whether you’re...
How to Take Negative Feedback And Use It to Win in Med School! Recently, our admissions coordinator Rachel was surprised by the reaction fro...
How the system pays doctors can change healthcare outcomes—sometimes in scary ways. The way docs are paid can make patients sicker…or can le...
When your boyfriend’s an OB/GYN and your friends can’t chill, we’re passing judgment—because someone has to. This week’s Reddit-fueled medic...
Summer in med school: is it beach vibes or big-doings? Turns out, it’s a weird mix of both—and these M2s made the most of their last summer...
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...
Why is it hard to get clear advice about applying to residency? Listener Baffled J. Whoseadaddy (not his real name) asked us why his med sch...
[We're on vacation, so enjoy this recent show in case you missed it!] Medical students share insights on hitting milestones and navigating t...
[We're on vacation, so enjoy this recent show in case you missed it!] They might know the citric acid cycle, but do med students know what a...
[We're on vacation, so enjoy this recent show in case you missed it!] How future doctors are navigating social media’s impact on public educ...
[We're on vacation, so enjoy this recent show in case you missed it!] Turning down that med school acceptance might cost more than you think...
Docs are in denial, but the economic incentives make it inevitable. Meanwhile, you’re working hard to become a doctor — and now a bot might...
A cardiologist ditched the standard lecture and took a walk with his patients. You can too! Cardiologist David Sabgir was tired of telling p...
MD and PA students reflect on what AI gets right—and what still makes them nervous. "How are you using AI in med school?” That’s the questio...
The path to discovery is paved with bureaucracy. Einstein was a patent clerk when he first proposed his famous equation that explained our u...
Are things getting better or worse? What if your a career in medicine, the collapse of civilization, and the maternal mortality crisis all s...
[Content warning: this episode contains frank discussions of medical examiner photos our students had to view during lectures, and which som...