Recess Rehash: Bropocalypse 2017
[Dave had the flu on recording day, so we’re posting this awesome episode from the ... Read more
Written by: The Short Coat Podcast
Published on: February 23, 2018
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A Few Practical Thoughts for Dealing with Death in Medicine
Death is an unfortunately common event in the field of medicine. How do you deal ... Read more
Written by: Katie Imbrock
Published on: February 20, 2018
Dealing with Subjectivity in Clinical Rotation Evaluations
One of my friends recently got back her evaluation from a rotation she had just ... Read more
Written by: Adelle
Published on: February 19, 2018
Quiz: A Case of Broken-Heart Syndrome
A 67-year-old woman presents to the emergency room with acute chest pain and dyspnea after ... Read more
Written by: Figure 1
Published on: February 16, 2018
Med Student Parents, Part 2 | Plan for Debt but Don’t Worry
This time, a mom’s point of view. On our last show, we fielded a question ... Read more
Written by: The Short Coat Podcast
Published on: February 16, 2018
The Top 3 Myths About Medical School
Maybe you have been watching Untold Stories of the E.R. on loop, and you are ... Read more
Written by: Cassie Kosarek
Published on: February 14, 2018
How Med Student Parents Make It Happen
Can you be a parent while you’re in medical school? Listener Courtney, a 26-year-old mother ... Read more
Written by: The Short Coat Podcast
Published on: February 9, 2018
Location, Location, Location! Should You Apply In-State or Out-of-State?
The AAMC Premed Team recently conducted a few twitter polls which asked premeds to share ... Read more
Written by: AAMC Staff
Published on: February 8, 2018
Q&A with Benjamin Stobbe, Executive Director of Clinical Simulation
Ask any doctor, in any specialty and of any age, and they will remember their ... Read more
Written by: Jacob Adney
Published on: February 7, 2018
The Power of Listening: What I Learned From My Trip to Rwanda, Africa
I woke up abruptly from my jet-lagged sleep surrounded by a bed net, two fans, ... Read more
Written by: Crissey Tait
Published on: February 6, 2018
Tales from the Clinic: from Theory to Practice
There is nothing to fear but fear itself. Kylie Miller and Issac Schwantes take a ... Read more
Written by: The Short Coat Podcast
Published on: February 2, 2018
A State of Emergency: Exploring the Specialty of Emergency Medicine
Perhaps no single aspect of medicine is more visible to the public, especially in stories, ... Read more
Written by: Brent Schnipke
Published on: January 29, 2018
Refusing to Treat: A Collision of Medicine and Conscience
Do doctors need protection from having to provide treatments they don’t believe in? During Human Rights ... Read more
Written by: The Short Coat Podcast
Published on: January 26, 2018
A Creeping Eruption
A 40-year-old male presents to his family physician with a pruritic, erythematous lesion on his ... Read more
Written by: Figure 1
Published on: January 26, 2018
Mind Over Pain Meds: To Solve the Opioid Crisis, We Need a New Approach to Pain
The other day I drove through a neighborhood in Chicago I once lived in and ... Read more
Written by: John Stracks
Published on: January 25, 2018
Reflections On Witnessing My First Patient Death
He is younger than me! This is not happening. This could have been me. These ... Read more
Written by: Mohamed Gad
Published on: January 23, 2018
Checking the Boxes: Should You Give Up Your Job To Do Research?
Sometimes the requirements aren’t required. Annie wrote in to [email protected] to ask Kaci McCleary, Erik Kneller, Gabriel ... Read more
Written by: The Short Coat Podcast
Published on: January 19, 2018
Is this patient high-risk?
A 55-year-old female presents with a low-grade fever, a new heart murmur, and Janeway lesions ... Read more
Written by: Figure 1
Published on: January 19, 2018
Positive Thinking for the Year Ahead
Looking Back at 2017 As another new year rolls around, I try to take some ... Read more
Written by: Adelle
Published on: January 15, 2018