# The Short Coat: Medical School Podcast: What They Don't Tell You \| The Short Coat

> The \#1 medical school podcast by students for pre\-meds\. Get insider tips, honest advice, and real stories about med school life\. Subscribe free to The Short Coat Podcast\.

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## Posts
- [Hot Takes: Dr\. Marty Makary dissects the US COVID Response, and he isn't happy](https://theshortcoat.com/hot-takes-dr-marty-makary-dissects-the-us-covid-response-and-he-isnt-happy/): Guest Marty Makary condemns the old way that healthcare responds to current events\.

Sticking to the clinical trials process and a reluctance to use the knowledge already available from Chinese doctors slowed US responses and killed people\.

“We had terrible medical leadership throughout the pandemic, and I think it’s good for our leaders to show some degree of humility to say, look, we consistently got it wrong\.”

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- [HAVING BABIES IN MEDICAL SCHOOL](https://theshortcoat.com/having-babies-in-medical-school/): The choice to become pregnant in medical school is always a difficult one to make, considering the time constraints and the physical toll it can take\. 
Raising a kids in medical school is perhaps even harder, as even if things go well in the pregnancy, now you've got little humans to learn about, protect, and enjoy \(and miss out on, sometimes\)\.
In Part One of this three\-parter, we'll lay it all bare for you\-\-what's it really like to raise a family while learning to be a doctor\.
- [Night Float: Choosing a Specialty](https://theshortcoat.com/nf-specialty-choice/): From an early age people are asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Whether they knew it all along or discovered their career path along the way, medical students have made a commitment to the answer, “I want to be a doctor\.” As soon as that answer is given, however, an equally challenging question awaits\. “What kind of doctor do you want to be?”  In the second episode of Night Float, Dr\. Tony Chung \(R1: Ophthalmology\), Dr\. Travis Snyders \(R2: Internal Medicine\), and Lisa Wehr \(M4\) discuss the process of choosing a specialty\. Some medical students will have an ‘aha’ moment, while many others will face a timeline and search more for a ‘tipping point’ that favors a particular choice\. The resident physicians share their own experiences with decision making and encourage students to explore their options through making early connections, asking questions, gaining experiences, and not being discouraged or dissuaded even when the process involves navigating unsolicited advice or looping back around\.  How are you going about making your choice of specialty? What questions do you have about specialty choice? In general, what would you like to hear from residents about their medical school or residency experiences? Call us at 347\-SHORTCT anytime, visit our Facebook group, or email theshortcoats@gmail\.com\.
- [Preparing for Residency Interviews](https://theshortcoat.com/nf-residency-interviews/)
- [Imposter Syndrome, Uncomfortable Fails, and Med School's Real Ups and Downs](https://theshortcoat.com/imposter-syndrome-uncomfortable-fails-and-med-schools-real-ups-and-downs/): The Short Coat records in front of a live audience — a room full of brand\-new medical students at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine during orientation week\. Dave is joined by M3 Zach Grissom, M3 Sarah Upton, M2 Sophie Hueser, and first\-time co\-host M2 Sudeep Gadde, and together they map the ups and downs of med school across three fronts: the identity shift of becoming a doctor, the grind of the education system itself, and the way a personal life bends \(but doesn’t break\!\) around all of it

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