Anxiety about your competitive specialty ambitions in your first year isn’t worth it. Listener Luis wrote in expressing his anxiety that his med school–which he’ll begin attending this fall–doesn’t have the prestige or programs to support ... Read more
The Short Coat Podcast
Updated June 25, 2022 by The Short Coat Podcast
In your second or third year of residency or fellowship, your smartphone will suddenly start buzzing at all hours of the workday. When you answer, a hyperactive-sounding millennial will chirp at warp speed: “Hi Dr[yourname]! ... Read more
Monya De
Updated October 23, 2022 by Monya De
I’ve written about choosing a medical specialty throughout the third and even fourth years of medical school, but further discussion is warranted regarding the students who don’t choose a specialty in this “typical” timeframe. It ... Read more
Brent Schnipke
Updated August 23, 2022 by Brent Schnipke
Dr. James Dahle is a practicing emergency physician and founder of White Coat Investor, a website in which he shares what he has learned about personal finance management and wealth building. Dr. Dahle graduated in ... Read more
Gloria Onwuneme
Updated June 25, 2022 by Gloria Onwuneme
By Adelle, Medical Student I went into my third year with a somewhat open mind in terms of what I thought I liked and what I thought I wanted to do for the next 35 ... Read more
Adelle
Updated June 25, 2022 by Adelle
Med school can test a relationship. Lauren wrote in to ask us to what extent her love life should play a role in her selection of a medical school, and how we thought med school challenges ... Read more
The Short Coat Podcast
Updated June 25, 2022 by The Short Coat Podcast
A 60-year-old man who is HIV positive presents with fever, dyspnea, and inflammatory lesions on the skin. A biopsy reveals a diagnosis of histoplasmosis. At what threshold should antiretroviral therapy (ART) be initiated in adults ... Read more
Figure 1
Updated February 27, 2019 by Figure 1
Moving across the country for medical school was the scariest thing I ever did – and the best thing I ever did I looked out the window as the plane touched down on the runway. ... Read more
Karen Tran-Harding
Updated June 25, 2022 by Karen Tran-Harding
Young physicians have some of the highest mortgage underwriting decline rates of any professional seeking real estate financing. This should not come as a surprise, as most residents have a negative net worth (typically loans ... Read more
Josh Mettle
Updated June 25, 2022 by Josh Mettle
While most students dream of getting an acceptance letter from just one medical school, others find themselves in the enviable position of having to choose between two or more schools to which they’ve been accepted. ... Read more
Cassie Kosarek
Updated June 25, 2022 by Cassie Kosarek
By Yoo Jung Kim, MD Candidate, Stanford University Many students start college gung-ho about going into medicine, and many end up falling short of their goals. Their reasons are varied. Some discover new careers that ... Read more
Yoo Jung Kim
Updated June 25, 2022 by Yoo Jung Kim
By Monya De, MD MPH Medical students who did not match into a residency position have a difficult, stressful, and uncertain time period ahead of them, thanks to overzealous funding of new medical schools, an ... Read more
Monya De
Updated June 25, 2022 by Monya De
By Gloria Onwneme, Medical Student, University of Nottingham, UK Dr. Harris Eyre, MD, PhD, Fulbright Scholar (WG Walker) is a psychiatry trainee, and Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder of CNSDose, a company which has developed ... Read more
Gloria Onwuneme
Updated June 25, 2022 by Gloria Onwuneme
Everyone knows: doctors have to have empathy…right? Listener Mo wrote to us at [email protected] to ask us if a lack of interest in dealing with the foibles of patients–with their anti-vaccine beliefs, their non-compliance with ... Read more
The Short Coat Podcast
Updated June 25, 2022 by The Short Coat Podcast
A 58-year-old male with a history of rosacea presents with blue-black discoloration on his neck and face that worsens after sun exposure. What drug is the most likely cause of this reaction?
Figure 1
Updated February 27, 2019 by Figure 1
Javier La Fontaine, DPM, MS, is a professor in the Plastic Surgery Department at UT Southwestern and an attending physician at Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas, TX. He specializes in limb salvage, using ... Read more
Student Doctor Network
Updated August 29, 2022 by Student Doctor Network
Ask any doctor, in any specialty and of any age, and they will remember their training in medical school. It is full of learning, new experiences, new friends, and major strides in both personal and ... Read more
Jacob Adney
Updated August 8, 2022 by Jacob Adney
Last year, over a thousand American senior medical students, failed to Match into a residency to advance their training. That’s almost 6% of all senior students. Over eight thousand total applicants failed to obtain a ... Read more
Mohamed Gad
Updated March 14, 2023 by Mohamed Gad
Many students don’t realize that the residency match should be top of mind when choosing their medical school. Even though residency is several years away, your time spent as a medical student will determine the ... Read more
Stacy Meyer
Updated June 26, 2022 by Stacy Meyer