The One Truth Linking Medicine, Mortality, and Meltdown

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Medicine is Changing. Step Up and Shape It

As societies and governments wrestle with the rise of artificial intelligence, The Short coats sit down with Dr. Lindsey Knake, a CCOM alum neonatologist and associate chief health information officer, to map out where AI actually stands in medicine right now. M2s Mukund Viswanad ...  Show more

The No-Guilt Summer: Med Students Finally Breathe

It's freeform Friday on the pod, which means the Iowa City parking situation is excellent, the rising M2s are bored and slightly guilty about it, and absolutely willing to tell a full story about a stranded boat. As their first year in medical school recedes into their past, Elli ...  Show more

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