You’ve got a lot riding on your residency interviews: a competitive undergraduate academic track + four years of medical training + the thousands you are spending to travel for interviews. The interviews aren’t a cake ... Read more
Sarah Johnston
Updated June 24, 2022 by Sarah Johnston
While the majority of medical students pursue a traditional MD degree, dual-degree programs are available to students who are interested in pursuing an additional master’s degree in combination with their Doctor of Medicine. According to ... Read more
AAMC Staff
Updated June 24, 2022 by AAMC Staff
We love listener feedback…even when it’s negative 🙂 And this whole obesity thing is really great for generating negative listener feedback. For instance, Marlene thought our comments on nutrition were mostly wrong. And Laura didn’t ... Read more
The Short Coat Podcast
Updated June 24, 2022 by The Short Coat Podcast
After months of ambiguity, wondering if you will receive interview invitations and if you have been accepted or rejected, being waitlisted by a medical school can introduce new stress to your application cycle. Especially if ... Read more
Cassie Kosarek
Updated June 24, 2022 by Cassie Kosarek
Medical school is characterized, and often caricatured, by the immense levels of stress that plague students throughout their four-year education. While you may not be able to decrease the frequency of tests and assignments in ... Read more
Casey Paton
Updated June 24, 2022 by Casey Paton
Learning about a new culture, seeing how healthcare is done in another country, and building your language skills are just some of the potential draws of a global health experience. If you are amongst the ... Read more
Christina Amutah
Updated August 23, 2022 by Christina Amutah
This week, listener Jen sent us an article from JAMA in which the author bemoans his tendency to let the electronic health record (coupled with his data-entry difficulties) dominate his attention at the expense of his ability to ... Read more
The Short Coat Podcast
Updated June 24, 2022 by The Short Coat Podcast
We’re a few months into the new medical year and wherever your spouse is at in their medical journey, they’re likely feeling stressed and overwhelmed. As their partner, it’s impossible for you to not be ... Read more
Amy Rakowczyk
Updated June 26, 2022 by Amy Rakowczyk
Welcome to “Research for the Rest of Us”, a column about navigating the complex intricacies of life in the lab. These articles aren’t for the superhuman Nature-publishing, Nobel Prize-winning MD/PhDs out there, but rather for ... Read more
Trevor C. Hunt
Updated June 24, 2022 by Trevor C. Hunt
A number of articles have previously addressed the importance of shadowing as a medical student and as a medical school aspirant. Many of these are penned by those already well established in their careers who ... Read more
Adil Menon
Updated June 26, 2022 by Adil Menon
A 58-year-old woman presents two days after a cardiac catheterization with malaise, fatigue, and new violaceous livedoid lesions on her feet. She is also found to have mild acute renal dysfunction. What is the cause ... Read more
Figure 1
Updated February 27, 2019 by Figure 1
Let’s just keep talking about treating obesity Fifi Trixiebell (not her real name) wrote to [email protected] asking us to discuss what medical students learn about nutrition, and whether they think the keto diet is just another fad. ... Read more
The Short Coat Podcast
Updated June 24, 2022 by The Short Coat Podcast
It is often said that the journey to becoming a doctor is a marathon, not a sprint. In my humble opinion, the comparison is apt. In fact, the premed’s path seems to me like a ... Read more
Julia Bauman
Updated June 24, 2022 by Julia Bauman
Challenges and barriers are inevitably present in any job field. The particular obstacles may vary from setting to setting, or they may be a result of the job itself. No matter the source, it is ... Read more
Brittany Ferri
Updated February 27, 2019 by Brittany Ferri
Dr. Sarah M. Lawrence obtained her Bachelor of Arts in political science (magna cum laude) and her Master of Arts in higher education (Graduate Dean’s Citation) from the University of Louisville. After working in the ... Read more
Crissey Tait
Updated February 27, 2019 by Crissey Tait
The year is 1921. A medical student toils away at a dimly lit lab bench deep in the bowels of the University of Toronto. His intense concentration does not waver even as a bead of ... Read more
Trevor C. Hunt
Updated August 8, 2022 by Trevor C. Hunt
A 70-year-old male with a history of hypertension presents with a fever and severe pain in both his hands. Examination reveals swollen, erythematous, and tender nodules on the joints of his fingers. Arthrocentesis demonstrates negatively ... Read more
Figure 1
Updated February 27, 2019 by Figure 1
Obesity may not be hopeless, but it is very difficult for physicians and sufferers Listener Hannah wrote in after shadowing physicians, noting that many of the morbidly obese patients she observed resisted their doctors’ advice ... Read more
The Short Coat Podcast
Updated June 24, 2022 by The Short Coat Podcast
Physician burnout is something of a hot topic nowadays. I say that not to belittle it—it is a major problem that needs to be discussed—but rather to make the point that it sometimes seems that ... Read more
Pratiti Roy
Updated February 18, 2019 by Pratiti Roy