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The ShortCoat Podcast: Relax or Prepare? Advice for Incoming Med Students

Original Article: Relax or Prepare? Advice for Incoming Med Students Spoiler alert:  don’t “prepare” during the summer before you arrive at medical school. Listener Amanda is like many medical students–anxious and…

Can I Get Into a Good Medical School with my Past Grades?

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 127 Our poster today is wondering about his past IVY league undergrad GPA and MBA GPA, and if he has a chance to get…

Biochemistry Grab Bag of Discrete Questions for the MCAT

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 95 Bryan from Blueprint MCAT (formerly Next Step Test Prep) and I cover biochemistry, a huge pain point for many premed students. Take a…

This Student, and Dad, Overcame a Poor GPA to Get Accepted

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 287 Nick is a former premed student-athlete who didn’t do well in school and went into business but he knew he was always missing…

The ShortCoat Podcast: Family Strife, Chuck’s Pro-Life, & the Ebola Bureaucracy Knife

Original Article: Family Strife, Chuck’s Pro-Life, & the Ebola Bureaucracy Knife Our own Claire Castaneda won first place in the Carver College of Medicine’s Carol A. Bowman Creative Writing Contest…

Biology Grab Bag of Questions for the MCAT

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 94 In today’s MCAT Podcast, we cover biology, including pregnancy, connective tissue disease, and skeletal myocytes. Follow along in the blog post for the…

Common Mistakes and More About Financing Medical School

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 286 Travis Hornsby went from trading bonds to figuring out how to pay off his wife’s medical school loans as fast as possible. Now…

Private Practice Sports Medicine from Family Practice

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 70 Dr. Daniel Clearfield is a Family Medicine trained physician who specializes in Sports Medicine. Listen to how he got into the field and…

Should I Retake Core Classes From 10 Years Ago with C’s?

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 126 If you’ve taken your med school prereqs a long time ago and you did poorly in them, should you retake them or take…

The ShortCoat Podcast: Parenting Fails, Pro-Life Wins, Free Laser Gifts

Original Article: Parenting Fails, Pro-Life Wins, Free Laser Gifts It’s time for a change, whether we want it or not. Oh, gosh.  It’s Kaci McCleary and Amy Young’s last show as…