So You Didn’t Match. Now What?
Last year, over a thousand American senior medical students, failed to Match into a residency ... Read more
Mohamed Gad
Updated March 14, 2023 by Mohamed Gad
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Another Student Fights Mental Illness Stigma
More and more students are speaking up about their mental illness struggles One of the ... Read more
The Short Coat Podcast
Updated August 21, 2026 by The Short Coat Podcast
A Beginner’s Guide to Paying For Medical School
You got into medical school! Now how do you pay for it? You already sold ... Read more
Matt Sutton
Updated June 26, 2022 by Matt Sutton
Looking at Other Specialties
This column has been focused on providing clinical snapshots while exploring the factors that affect ... Read more
Brent Schnipke
Updated June 26, 2022 by Brent Schnipke
Recess Rehash: Bropocalypse 2017
[Dave had the flu on recording day, so we’re posting this awesome episode from the ... Read more
The Short Coat Podcast
Updated August 21, 2026 by The Short Coat Podcast
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
Katie Imbrock
Updated January 8, 2019 by Katie Imbrock
Dealing with Subjectivity in Clinical Rotation Evaluations
One of my friends recently got back her evaluation from a rotation she had just ... Read more
Adelle
Updated June 26, 2022 by Adelle
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
Figure 1
Updated February 27, 2019 by Figure 1
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
The Short Coat Podcast
Updated August 21, 2026 by The Short Coat Podcast
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
Cassie Kosarek
Updated June 26, 2022 by Cassie Kosarek
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
The Short Coat Podcast
Updated August 21, 2026 by The Short Coat Podcast
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
AAMC Staff
Updated August 21, 2026 by AAMC Staff
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
Jacob Adney
Updated January 12, 2019 by Jacob Adney
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
Crissey Tait
Updated June 26, 2022 by Crissey Tait
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
The Short Coat Podcast
Updated August 21, 2026 by The Short Coat Podcast
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
Brent Schnipke
Updated March 10, 2025 by Brent Schnipke
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
The Short Coat Podcast
Updated August 21, 2026 by The Short Coat Podcast
A Creeping Eruption
A 40-year-old male presents to his family physician with a pruritic, erythematous lesion on his ... Read more
Figure 1
Updated February 27, 2019 by Figure 1
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
John Stracks
Updated June 26, 2022 by John Stracks
