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Should Victoria also get a law degree to facilitate a career in health policy? Shea sends feedback on our recent discussion of options for unmatched MD Seniors We practice answering patient questions with a straight face by visiting Yahoo! Answers for what might be the last time! Resources: You deserve to be happy and healthy. If you’re struggling with racism, harassment, hate your mental health, or some other crisis, visit http://theshortcoat.com/help, and send additions to the list to theshortcoats@gmail.com. We love you. Music provided by Argofox. License: bit.ly/CCAttribution DOCTOR VOX – Heatstroke: youtu.be/j1n1zlxzyRE Catmosphere – Candy-Coloured Sky: youtu.be/AZjYZ8Kjgs8 ; Hexalyte – Wandering Hours: youtu.be/FOAo2zsYnvA;

Affective presence is the lasting and stable impressions your interaction partners get from you. Your scores and grades only get you in the door. It's your personality that makes you a medical student, and later, a doctor.  So make sure you're giving off the right vibes! Listener Kalmen reminds us of a paths for some students who don't match. You deserve to be happy and healthy. If you're struggling with racism, harassment, hate, your mental health, or some other crisis, visit http://theshortcoat.com/help, and send additions to the list to theshortcoats@gmail.com. We love you. Resources: You deserve to be happy and healthy. If you're struggling with racism, harassment, hate your mental health, or some other crisis, visit http://theshortcoat.com/help, and send additions to the list to theshortcoats@gmail.com. We love you. Music provided by Argofox.  License: bit.ly/CCAttribution DOCTOR VOX - Heatstroke: youtu.be/j1n1zlxzyRE Catmosphere - Candy-Coloured Sky: youtu.be/AZjYZ8Kjgs8 ; Hexalyte - Wandering Hou

COVID stressed healthcare but showed us a better future. TL;DR COVID revealed what’s broken in healthcare, and also offers a glimpse of how it can be fixed Distributed, decentralized and digital isn’t about technology, but about putting patients at the center of healthcare. Read Dr. Nundy’s book Care After Covid: What the Pandemic Revealed Is Broken in Healthcare and How to Reinvent It. Care After COVID…by Shantanu Nundy, MD This episode is sponsored by Panacea Financial, Member FDIC. Panacea is banking for physicians and medical students! Shantanu Nundy, MD, is no stranger to healthcare policy and patient care. He’s a physician, entrepreneur and technologist “passionate about reinventing healthcare for all.” He’s a CMO for a company working to improve health outcomes, a primary care doc in the Washington, DC area, and a lecturer in health policy at the George Washington Milken Institute for Public Health and advisor to the World Bank Group on digital health and innovation. So we were grateful that he offe

How did COVID affect the 2021 Match? This week’s sponsor, Panacea Financial (Member FDIC) is giving away $500 to five students participating in the 2021 Match. Check it out! Match Week is huge for senior medical students. It’s the week they find out if they will continue their training (yikes!), and where in the country they will go to complete it…and this year’s match was even more-than-usually anxiety provoking due to COVID. Were our fears–of large numbers of unmatched applicants, programs with many unfilled positions, and students unfairly penalized by virtual interviews–realized? We try to figure it out with the stats available to us just an hour before recording. This Week in Medical News Some Grand Rapids, Michigan residents were very bad on Instagram. Hey, future and current students–keep other peoples resected organs off social media, and while you’re at it, you really aren’t supposed to take pictures in the OR without consent. M’kay? We Want to Hear From You How’d we do on this week’s show? Did w

The Art of Compliments Our sponsor, Panacea Financial, is having a giveaway! 5 students in the 2021 Match will get $500 in their Match Day Giveaway, so head on over to find out more! It must have been a bad week for someone, because Dave thought it’d be great to have a compliment festival. Of … Continue reading Complimentary Therapy → The post Complimentary Therapy appeared first on The Short Coat.

No school, employer, or profession is perfect; and lots of times, you have to step up to fix it. This episode’s sponsor, Panacea Financial, is having a Match Day Giveaway! Med students in the 2021 Match can enter to be one of five students who will win $500! Enter at panaceafinancial.com/matchday. Long time SCP listener … Continue reading How To Fix A Gap: Do It Yourself! → The post How To Fix A Gap: Do It Yourself! appeared first on The Short Coat.

This episode is sponsored by Panacea Financial, a Division of Sonabank, Member FDIC. Panacea is banking for medical students and doctors. Every once in a while, Dave likes to just get to know his med student co-hosts better. This time, in order to accomplish that goal, he invited each of them–M1s Rick Gardner, AJ Chowdhury, … Continue reading The King of Intestinal Gas → The post The King of Intestinal Gas appeared first on The Short Coat.

The advice students get from mentors, peers, and advisors isn’t always good. Opinions are like *ssholes. They’re everywhere. But that doesn’t mean that the advice you’ll get is always useful. On today’s show, Marisa Evers, Rick Gardner, Eric Boeshart, and Nicole Hines discuss the advice that co-hosts have gotten during their journey that didn’t quite … Continue reading Good Advice: Wrong Answers Only → The post Good Advice: Wrong Answers Only appeared first on The Short Coat.

When should med students trust their school…and when should they push back? This episode is sponsored by Panacea Financial, a division of Sonabank, member FDIC. Panacea is banking for medical students, built by doctors. Med students sometimes find it difficult to trust their school will get them through this ordeal of learning medicine.  Sometimes you’re … Continue reading In Med School We Trust. or not. → The post In Med School We Trust. or not. appeared first on The Short Coat.

The medical student’s jobs may be less than sexy, but they’re important. Medical students are both learners and an important part of the teaching hospital labor pool. Recently, Dave realized he doesn’t actually know–what are their actual jobs? And how do they find out what they are? In general the job is to both learn … Continue reading What Jobs to Med Students Actually Do in their clerksh? → The post What Jobs to Med Students Actually Do in their clerksh? appeared first on The Short Coat.

Doing stuff outside of your coursework is fantastic…until it isn’t. Listener Tasneem Ahmed–a fourth-year medic at London’s King’s College–joins MD/PhD student Aline Sandouk, M4 Holly Conger, and M1s AJ Chowdhury and Alex Belzer on the show. She wrote to us at theshortcoats@gmail.com because she wanted to talk with us about those times when extracurricular activities … Continue reading DROWNING IN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES → The post DROWNING IN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES appeared first on The Short Coat.

Which take on medicine is best for patients and provider mental health? Dave and the gang–including M1s AJ Chowdhury and Alex Belzer; M4 Holly Conger; and MD/PhD student Aline Sandouk–take a look at the prevalent idea that medicine is a “calling,” somewhat like religion is for many. That’s an imperfect analogy, but there are parallels. … Continue reading Is Medicine A Calling, or a Job? → The post Is Medicine A Calling, or a Job? appeared first on The Short Coat.

How they can help, support, and understand what you’re doing here. [We livestream our recording sessions most Fridays on our listeners Facebook group, The Short Coat Student Lounge. Join us to add your questions and comments to the show!] Families are a blessing (usually). A source of support, love, and acceptance, they can prop you … Continue reading What You Should Tell Your FAmily About Med School → The post What You Should Tell Your FAmily About Med School appeared first on The Short Coat.

Are you an allopath or an osteopath? [Happy New Year! Did you know you can join The Short Coat Student Lounge on Facebook, and help us with the show? We livestream there every time we record, and if you’re there you can help us make sure we get all the angles.] A while back we … Continue reading MD or DO: What is the Difference? → The post MD or DO: What is the Difference? appeared first on The Short Coat.

Happy Holidays! As we recorded this show, vaccine doses were beginning to spread across the world–well, across the rich countries of the world, anyway. The poorer countries were left with the WHO’s risky donation-funded program to distribute doses, causing concern that the program might just collapse because some countries we could mention decided not to … Continue reading Vaccine Fever → The post Vaccine Fever appeared first on The Short Coat.

[This episode is sponsored by Panacea Financial, a Division of Sonabank, Member FDIC. Please support our sponsor by visiting https://panaceafinancial.com/] In mid-November, the American Medical Association declared racism to be a public health threat. With that declaration, they adopted policies to acknowledge and recognize racism as detrimental to the health and well-being of all of America’s … Continue reading AMA: Racism is a Public health Threat. SCP Co-hosts: Meh. → The post AMA: Racism is a Public health Threat. SCP Co-hosts: Meh. appeared first on The Short Coat.

[This episode is sponsored by Panacea Financial, a Division of Sonabank, Member FDIC. Please support our sponsor by visiting https://panaceafinancial.com/] The Short Coats have begun livestreaming their recordings in our Facebook group (most Fridays at noon central–join us and be a part of the show). Listeners Garrett and Isaac wrote in with questions about the … Continue reading Quality over Quantity: Clinical Experiences and Volunteering in COVID Times → The post Quality over Quantity: Clinical Experiences and Volunteering in COVID Times appeared first on The Short Coat.

Given how much med school costs, isn’t it best to go for your cheapest option? [This episode is sponsored by Panacea Financial, a Division of Sonabank, Member FDIC. Please support our sponsor by visiting https://panaceafinancial.com/] A listener we’re calling Victor Von Stateschool called us at 347-SHORT-CT to continue the recent spate of listener questions about … Continue reading What About Choosing the Cheapest Medical School? → The post What About Choosing the Cheapest Medical School? appeared first on The Short Coat.

Should Jenna broaden her horizons by moving away for medical school? [This episode is sponsored by Panacea Financial, a Division of Sonabank, Member FDIC. Please support our sponsor by visiting https://panaceafinancial.com/] Listener Jenna got into Carver College of Medicine! But she’s worried–should she go to a new place to study medicine instead, or should she … Continue reading To Leave or Not To Leave → The post To Leave or Not To Leave appeared first on The Short Coat.

Name recognition is great, but it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. Listener Morgan wrote in to ask what we thought about Ivy League schools with high name recognition, and whether it should be an important factor in her decision on a school to attend. MD/PhD student Aline Sandouk and M2s Greta Becker, Mariam … Continue reading The Power and Perils of Prestige in Med Ed → The post The Power and Perils of Prestige in Med Ed appeared first on The Short Coat.