Can you be a parent while you’re in medical school? Listener Courtney, a 26-year-old mother of three wants to know if her med school dream is even possible. Obviously this is a two-part question since ... Read more
The Short Coat Podcast
Updated June 26, 2022 by The Short Coat Podcast
An 8-year-old boy is brought to the pediatrician by his mother over concerns of a new-onset rash. He is otherwise healthy, though his mother mentions that he was unwell two weeks prior to the rash ... Read more
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Updated March 5, 2019 by Figure 1
The AAMC Premed Team recently conducted a few twitter polls which asked premeds to share what you are looking for in a medical school. We received hundreds of responses, and while a school’s mission statement ... Read more
AAMC Staff
Updated June 26, 2022 by AAMC Staff
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 January 12, 2019 by Jacob Adney
I woke up abruptly from my jet-lagged sleep surrounded by a bed net, two fans, and the smell of the DEET bug spray I had applied before going to bed. One of my team members ... Read more
Crissey Tait
Updated June 26, 2022 by Crissey Tait
Reasons women should not pursue surgery discredited Before I even started medical school, I knew I wanted to be a surgeon. However—before I even started medical school—I had multiple people tell me all the reasons ... Read more
Kara Hessel
Updated June 26, 2022 by Kara Hessel
There is nothing to fear but fear itself. Kylie Miller and Issac Schwantes take a break from their fairly new clinical duties to let Gabe Conley and Erik Kneller know how it’s going working with actual patients. ... Read more
The Short Coat Podcast
Updated June 26, 2022 by The Short Coat Podcast
A 56-year-old man presents with a three-month history of erectile dysfunction and bilateral buttock pain on exertion, but not at rest. His past medical history is significant for type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, and hypertension. Examination reveals ... Read more
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Updated February 27, 2019 by Figure 1
Days Defined By The Medical Life Have you ever wondered what the day-to-day looks like for fellow medical spouses? On the outside, their lives may look organized and happy with ducks-in-a-row, but is that how ... Read more
Amy Rakowczyk
Updated June 26, 2022 by Amy Rakowczyk
Dr. Perri Klass is a pediatrician and journalist for the New York Times, an author, and a professor of Journalism and Pediatrics at New York University. She obtained her BA in biology from Harvard University (1979) ... Read more
Gloria Onwuneme
Updated June 26, 2022 by Gloria Onwuneme
The United States is currently battling an opioid epidemic that is only getting worse. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that in 2016 there were 42,249 opioid overdose deaths, which is a significant ... Read more
Jon Hagedorn
Updated June 26, 2022 by Jon Hagedorn
Perhaps no single aspect of medicine is more visible to the public, especially in stories, film, and television, than the emergency department. Scenes of a crowded room, patients on the verge of death needing major ... Read more
Brent Schnipke
Updated March 10, 2025 by Brent Schnipke
Do doctors need protection from having to provide treatments they don’t believe in? During Human Rights Week at the Carver College of Medicine, we heard some hard truths from national news commentator, human rights activist, and ... Read more
The Short Coat Podcast
Updated June 26, 2022 by The Short Coat Podcast
A 40-year-old male presents to his family physician with a pruritic, erythematous lesion on his foot after returning from vacation in coastal Brazil a week earlier. On examination, a serpiginous, slightly elevated tunnel can be ... Read more
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Updated February 27, 2019 by Figure 1
The other day I drove through a neighborhood in Chicago I once lived in and happened to drive by the National Opioid Overdose Memorial. It consists of 22,000 pills, each one engraved with the face ... Read more
John Stracks
Updated June 26, 2022 by John Stracks
Over the holidays, dental school students all over the nation put down the books, hung up the scrubs, and went home to spend time with family. Despite every effort to forget about school for a ... Read more
Colson Smith
Updated June 26, 2022 by Colson Smith
He is younger than me! This is not happening. This could have been me. These are the thoughts running through my mind when I witness my first patient death. I’ve seen a few other deaths ... Read more
Mohamed Gad
Updated June 26, 2022 by Mohamed Gad
Dr. Rozelle Kane is a physician, an NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Fellow with the Department of Innovation, and the founder of The Future of Food Institute, which looks to translate nutritional research insights into foods which ... Read more
Gloria Onwuneme
Updated June 26, 2022 by Gloria Onwuneme
Sometimes the requirements aren’t required. Annie wrote in to [email protected] to ask Kaci McCleary, Erik Kneller, Gabriel Conley, and Marissa Evers if she should give up her 10-year job as a radiology tech so she’d have time ... Read more
The Short Coat Podcast
Updated June 26, 2022 by The Short Coat Podcast