509 Episodes

  1. From Ecuador to Iowa, Ortho to Community Healthcare: the Last of the Summers

    Published: 8/21/2025
  2. DNP Doubts, Prepping for Patients, and Smarts Self-Doubt–listener questions answered!

    Published: 8/14/2025
  3. What Residency Program Directors Actually Want

    Published: 8/7/2025
  4. Placentas, Prostates, and Purple Goggles (Recess Rehash)

    Published: 7/31/2025
  5. Slap Some Moldy Bread On It: Blechardy! (Recess Rehash)

    Published: 7/24/2025
  6. Medfluencers and Patient Education: Helpful or Risky? (Recess Rehash)

    Published: 7/17/2025
  7. She Got Into Med School… But Now She’s Not Sure (Recess Rehash)

    Published: 7/10/2025
  8. Sheriff of Sodium: AI Will Replace Doctors (Reality Check!)

    Published: 7/3/2025
  9. How a Walk in the Park Sparked a Health Movement, ft. David Sabgir, MD

    Published: 6/26/2025
  10. AI in Med School: Helpful Tool or Total Crutch?

    Published: 6/19/2025
  11. Your Thesis Won’t Change the World (and Here’s Why)

    Published: 6/12/2025
  12. The One Truth Linking Medicine, Mortality, and Meltdown

    Published: 6/5/2025
  13. Free Lunch, Headaches, and Holding Hearts

    Published: 5/29/2025
  14. The Unexpected Power of Student Doctors

    Published: 5/22/2025
  15. From Broke to Bulletproof: The White Coat Investor’s Advice

    Published: 5/15/2025
  16. Med School’s Unique Problems (AITA)

    Published: 5/8/2025
  17. From Perfect Plans to Grease Fires: The Med School Spectrum

    Published: 5/1/2025
  18. Medicine Can Cure TB—But Humanity Won’t

    Published: 4/24/2025
  19. How Med Students Redefine Ability and Success

    Published: 4/17/2025
  20. From Fire Hose to Final Decision–How Med Students Choose Careers

    Published: 4/10/2025

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The longest running med school podcast, The Short Coat features a variety cast of medical students from the University of Iowa, offering is a brutally honest look at medicine, med school, and what life is like here at the margins of medicine. Skip this show if you'd prefer not to know and hate laughter. Our opinions and those of guests are definitely not those of the University of Iowa, the state of Iowa, or anyone else. Try not to get your stethoscope in a twist about it!