Iowa City Haunts and Med School Hot Takes

For the full list of our favorite places, visit Iowa City is small enough that you can bike from the hospital to a wood-fired pizza place and back before your study group notices you're gone — but it's also weird and big enough that you can spend your first semester missing half of what makes it worth being here. If you're heading to Iowa City this fall, this episode gives you six months of discovery in about an hour--visit for the list! Then the group offers their hot takes on med school life: whether ceremonies are designed for students at all, whether shadowing requirements are an equity problem, and whether students who hit a wall should be able to master out (it's possible, but it's also not on the website).

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Iowa City Haunts and Med School Hot Takes is an episode from The Short Coat Podcast by The Students of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.

This episode is 1:10:43 long.

This episode was published on May 14, 2026.

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