The Short Coat: An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
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The Short Coat: An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
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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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 t...
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 c...
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 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 y...
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 sur...
Medical Students and Love: Do Their Spouses Really Know Them?
The Heart Wants What It Wants.
In this Valentine’s Day episode, four medical students sit down to play the ultimate compati...
Med Students React: Social Media from Helpful to Hogwash
Slather some beef tallow on it.
On this episode, M3 Fallon Jung, M1s Isa Perez-Sandi and Cory Karasek, and M2 Maria Schapfe...
The Surprising Connection Between Hobbies and Medicine
Don’t give up the outside activities that’ll make you a better doc
As Dave has observed many times, medicine will take ever...
Med Students Take the Hot Nugget Challenge
[Content warning: Dave did his best to remove sniffles.]
Spicy chicken nuggets, bad decisions, and what happens when medica...
Tips and Tricks for Crushing it in Clerkships
What to expect for med students moving from classroom to exam room
The beginning of clerkships mark a medical student’s pro...
They Way Most Docs are Paid Doesn’t Lead to Healthier Patients (Recess Rehash)
[ICYMI, here’s a rerun of a show released earlier this year. We’ll be back with new shows starting next week!]
How the sys...
Demand to Be Called ‘Doctor,’ or Let It Slide (AITA)? (Recess Rehash)
[It’s winter break, and everything has come to a halt here, including podcasting. We’ll be back soon, promise!]
Reddit’s “...
Another Path to Med School: Masters of Clinical Anatomy
An alternative to postbac programs?
Postbac programs are okay, but what if there was another path to medical school? M2s Sa...
The Unexpected Power of Student Doctors (Recess Rehash)
[We weren’t available to record a new show for you this week, so enjoy this rerun instead!]
Clinical students are sometimes...
How to Survive The First Semester of Med School
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 em...
Family expectations, culture clashes, and career priorities: Who’s the A-Hole? (Recess Rehash)
[Due to Thanksgiving break, we have no new episode this week for you, but here’s a good one from our back catalog!]
When yo...
The Universal Experience that Medicine Hates Talking About Most
[Content warning: this episode contains frank discussions of death and dying that some listeners may want to skip.]
Doctors...
Harsh Truth: Most Pre-Meds Don’t Get Accepted
Three med students who didn’t get in at first talk about why.
Thousands of med school applicants are going to feel the sti...
The Rural Doc Crisis and the Med Students Who Plan to Be Where They’re Most Needed
The Truths and Solutions for Small-Town Healthcare.
We’re talking about rural medicine, where the needs are huge, the syste...
Med Student Leaders: Juggling Roles at School and Home
Is work-life “balance” the right framing?
Is “work-life balance” a myth in medical school? What do successful students do t...
Med School Stereotypes Shattered: What We’re Really Like Inside
Turns out medical students are regular humans who happen to need to memorize the Krebs cycle
We’ve all got that mental imag...
My Family Thinks I’m a Doctor Already
What med students wish their families actually understood about medical school
Your family means well… but when you start m...
From Bartending to Bedside: What Our Pre-Med Jobs Taught Us About Medicine
No med student starts with a blank slate
If you’re thinking of starting over and going to med school, you might wonder what...
Federal Loan Caps & Medical School Debt: What Future Doctors Need to Know
Medical School is Now More of a Gamble
Medical school just became a lot more expensive for some students and potentially im...
PA Week: Don’t Sleep on this Career!
MDs have main character energy, but don’t ignore Physician Assistants.
We talk a lot about medical students on this podcast...
From Broke to Bank: Money Lessons Med School Skips
Med School ROI: Still Worth the Debt?
Doctors make bank, so why do they feel poor? We’re breaking down the brutal reality o...
Going on Leave: The Power Move No One Talks About in Med School
What med schools don’t tell you about hitting pause.
Turns out, pausing med school can actually be the smartest career move...
Feedback is Data, Not Devastation.
How to Take Negative Feedback And Use It to Win in Med School
Recently, our admissions coordinator Rachel was surprised by...
They Way Most Docs are Paid Doesn’t Lead to Healthier Patients
How the system pays doctors can change healthcare outcomes—sometimes in scary ways.
The way docs are paid can make patients...
Family expectations, culture clashes, and career priorities: Who’s the A-Hole?
When your boyfriend’s an OB/GYN and your friends can’t chill
We’re passing judgment, because someone has to. This week’s Re...
From Ecuador to Iowa, Ortho to Community Healthcare: the Last of the Summers
These M2s made the most of their last summer “break.”
Summer in med school: is it beach vibes or big-doings? Turns out, it’...
DNP Doubts, Prepping for Patients, and Smarts Self-Doubt–listener questions answered!
Real answers for your real med school dilemmas.
We’ve had some listener question stacking up like it’s the ER waiting room...
What Residency Program Directors Actually Want
And the real reason you’re not getting clear advice about applying to residency.
Listener Baffled J. Whoseadaddy (not his r...
Placentas, Prostates, and Purple Goggles (Recess Rehash)
Medical students share insights on hitting milestones and navigating transitions
[We’re on vacation, so enjoy this recent s...
Slap Some Moldy Bread On It: Blechardy! (Recess Rehash)
What do med students know that isn’t medicine?
[We’re on vacation, so enjoy this recent show in case you missed it!]
...
Medfluencers and Patient Education: Helpful or Risky? (Recess Rehash)
How future doctors are navigating social media’s impact on public education.
[We’re on vacation, so enjoy this recent show...
She Got Into Med School… But Now She’s Not Sure (Recess Rehash)
Turning down that med school acceptance might cost more than you think.
[We’re on vacation, so enjoy this recent show in ca...
Sheriff of Sodium: AI Will Replace Doctors (Reality Check!)
Docs are in denial, but the economic incentives make it inevitable
You’re working hard to be (or become) a doctor — now a b...
How a Walk in the Park Sparked a Health Movement, ft. David Sabgir, MD
A cardiologist ditched the standard lecture and took a walk with his patients. You can too!
Cardiologist David Sabgir was...
AI in Med School: Helpful Tool or Total Crutch?
MD and PA students reflect on what AI gets right—and what still makes them nervous.
“How are you using AI in med school?” T...