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The ShortCoat Podcast: Winter Break, Guts and Brains, and Yahoo! Answers

Original Article: Winter Break, Guts and Brains, and Yahoo! Answers And all through the house… It’s winter break at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.  For most people, that…

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The ShortCoat Podcast: Night Float: Choosing a Specialty

Original Article: Night Float: Choosing a Specialty Choosing a Specialty From an early age people are asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Whether they knew it…

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The ShortCoat Podcast: Admissions Bias Against Alternative Medicine?

Original Article: Admissions Bias Against Alternative Medicine? For medical school admissions, package study of alternative medicine carefully Chrissa wrote in to say that she believes that complementary and alternative medicine systems…

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The ShortCoat Podcast: Preparing for Residency Interviews

Original Article: Preparing for Residency Interviews   Preparing for Residency Interviews Welcome to Night Float! In this series  of special episodes, resident physicians take a break from the demands of their…

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The ShortCoat Podcast: More Surgery for Better Global Health: Dr. Mark Shrime

Original Article: More Surgery for Better Global Health: Dr. Mark Shrime Is surgery too expensive for global health? Mark Shrime is an otolaryngologist (and American Ninja Warrior competitor) who may just…

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The ShortCoat Podcast: The Business of Medicine

Original Article: The Business of Medicine Should medical students learn more about the business of medicine? Medical school definitely hasn’t made a priority of teaching about how medicine works as a…

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The ShortCoat Podcast: “I’ve Got Some Bad News”

Original Article: “I’ve Got Some Bad News” Delivering bad news is an art. When  many people think about becoming a physician, they focus on the positive side of the practice of…

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The ShortCoat Podcast: Reaffirming points of pride, and life in rural Iowa

Original Article: Reaffirming points of pride, and life in rural Iowa We’re Iowa proud Dave has been noticing a certain mid-semester droopiness among some students at the College of Medicine.  Perhaps,…

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The ShortCoat Podcast: Med School Medicine vs. Real World Medicine

Original Article: Med School Medicine vs. Real World Medicine In migrant health clinics, the ideal world of medicine goes out the window. In Iowa and many other states, migrant workers are…

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The ShortCoat Podcast: Alumni Visit

Original Article: Alumni Visit A visit with those who made it through med school Alumni Nate Curl, MD (emergency medicine, ’07) and Cathryn Turner (pediatric psychiatry, ’10) returned to the Carver…

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