New MD and PA Students: Why Medicine?

For the full list of our favorite places, visit https://theshortcoat.com/haunts. Iowa City is small enough that you can bike from the hospital to a wood-fired pizza place and back before your study group notices you're gone — but it's also weird and big enough that you can spend ...  Show more

Dave and his M1 co-hosts Lily Schmidt, Melia Patrick, Jonah Albrecht, and Anna Royer, take a field trip to Reddit's AITA sub— because self-reflection is not usually how people figure out if they're the problem. Four posts, four verdicts, and get genuinely sidetracked in the best ...  Show more

Content advisory: this podcast contains themes of mental health and suicide‘You're not just losing a person. You're losing all of those memories’In this week’s episode, Dr Louise Newson is joined by mental health campaigner and author, Ben West. At 17, Ben’s world was turned upsi ...  Show more

Today the focus is on doctors and depression, with Dr. Pamela Buchanan as my guest, in a second episode in the "Careers That Kill" series, discussing medical providers, the pandemic, and depression. She's a board-certified physician, speaker and thought leader dedicated to transf ...  Show more

Going to the doctor is probably not at the top of anyone’s list of enjoyable activities, but when we do go, we expect and deserve to be heard, to have our concerns listened to and our questions answered. However, most, if not all, of us have at some point felt unheard, dismiss ...

Listen to this latest episode of the podcast cohosted with MohammadAli Jardaly, with Dr. Alaa Rihan, a Family Medicine physician and a scholar, Leading Physician Wellbeing Program with the American Academy of Family Physicians. Burnout affects more than 50% of physicians in th ...