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…
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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…
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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…
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Original Article: Emily Silverman, MD, and The Nocturnists A live stage show featuring the stories of healthcare providers is now a podcast you’ll love. The day-to-day of internship, residency, and an MD career…
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Original Article: Reactions, Reagents, and Repose How much is lab medicine a part of medical school? Remembering a recent episode in which we spoke briefly of colored test tubes, Adee writes…
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Original Article: Unwanted Sexual Attention from Patients Do med students get training on how to deal with sexual attention from patients? Listener Zipadee Doodah (not her actual name) was the victim…
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Original Article: Night Float: Finding Mentors, Being a Mentor Mentorship–both giving and receiving–is a crucial part of being a resident Short Coat Podcast veteran Keenan Laraway, MD (CCOM ’15, Internal Medicine), returns…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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