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The ShortCoat Podcast: Tests, Tact, and Turpentine
Original Article: Tests, Tact, and Turpentine Everyone gets anxious about tests. And med school features a lot of tests. The news that students at Oregon Health and Science University will now be subject…
Finishing Prereqs Early, Nursing as a Backup and More Q&A!
Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 280 This week we’re taking questions directly from the MSHQ Premed Forums. If you’re not familiar with the forums, check them out and join…
Physics Series 1: Spring Systems for the MCAT
Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 88 As always, Bryan from Blueprint MCAT (formerly Next Step Test Prep) is joining us today as we start off a sequence of episodes…
Is There Risk in Applying to New Medical Schools?
Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 120 As you build your school list, you may find that there are new medical schools opening when you are applying. Is it a…
The ShortCoat Podcast: The Truth About “Primary Care” Statistics
Original Article: The Truth About “Primary Care” Statistics How to Think About Med Schools’ Primary Care Statistics Listener Lavender BloodPoison (not their real name) sent us a message saying they were impressed…
From a Cocktail Waitress to Physician and EM Doc
Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 279 Dr. Elaine Reno is an Emergency Medicine physician. She joins us to talk about her journey to medicine and her role with the…
How Important is Volunteering as a Nontrad Premed?
Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 119 When you’re a nontraditional premed student working full-time and going to school doing a DIY postbac, should you be concerned about volunteering and…
Psych/Soc Series: Social Movement, Classes, and More
Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 87 Our last week of the Psych/Soc content is here. This week we dive more into sociology and talk about social movements, socioeconomics and…
What Does Academic Emergency Medicine Look Like?
Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 67 Dr. Elaine Reno is an academic Emergency Medicine physician in Denver. Elaine has a fellowship in wilderness medicine, which is really not that…
The ShortCoat Podcast: Putting the Anxiety Cart Before the Horse
Original Article: Putting the Anxiety Cart Before the Horse Anxiety about your competitive specialty ambitions in your first year isn’t worth it. Listener Luis wrote in expressing his anxiety that his…
