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Anki Warriors, Ortho Bros, Last Minute Legends and More

Before she arrived at CCOM, M1 Moesha Chhatlani thought there’d only be one type of person going to med school. She’s since realized that was not true, so she surveyed her first-year classmates and sorted them into archetypes, and classmates Avery Hand, Meghan Funk, Braedon Kirkpatrick, and Dave go through the results: who is the Anki warrior, who is the pop-up med student, who is the ortho bro, and why is the most common type the one who disappears for days and then walks away with an 87%? (No confidence intervals were harmed. It is not evidence based.)

What do M1s eat for lunch? Whatever the interest groups leave out, and Dave admits he hunts for it too. Also, what gets students dinged in Objective Structured Clinical Examination feedback, and why is the top answer saying “awesome” about a family history of diabetes?

Then the index cards come out and everyone has to argue an opinion they may not hold: more residency slots as the cure for physician burnout, whether residents should use artificial intelligence for charting, whether Step 1 should stay pass/fail, a longer gross anatomy course, stray cats, and Halloween on the last Saturday of October. Also, Dave is colorblind and has feelings about your charts.

Episode credits:

Producer: Moesha Chhatlani, Dave Etler

Co-hosts: Moesha Chhatlani, Avery Hand, Megan Funk, Braedon Kirkpatrick

Production: SCP Media Lab–Anna Royer, Cyrus Barati, Isa Perez-Sandi, Zach Grissom, Sarah Upton, Srishti Mathur, David Lee, and Jacob Thompson

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What would you give up for $10 million?

Our planned show fell through, so Dave pivoted to hypotheticals with Esha Patel, Nikki Chang, Moesha, and a rotating cast of M1s (flexibility is a medical skill, allegedly): what changes if everyone wakes up six inches taller (more presence, fewer step stools, capris, heels, five extra minutes of sleep), who do you want when a flight attendant asks for a doctor (a 70-year-old psychiatrist, a dentist, or a veterinarian), and would you rewind to age ten or ten years with everything you know now? Also, which one sense would you let everyone perceive as terrible (sound, apparently, which led to a pretty good Dance Mom impression), what happens when your car becomes a human roommate for four years, and would you take $100,000 to have skin a color outside human variation (hot pink, traffic cone orange, glow-in-the-dark)? Also, $10 million to give up one ordinary human ability: embarrassment goes first, overthinking is a closer call. Also, Dave’s mother made him take down his political attack-ad parody.

02:12 — What would change if everyone woke up six inches taller?
18:14 — Which sense would you let people perceive terribly: look, sound, smell, taste, or feel?
30:41 — Dentist, veterinarian, or 70-year-old psychiatrist: who treats an in-flight medical emergency?
38:24 — Would you go back to age ten or ten years ago, knowing what you know now?
43:00 — Why do more women than men co-host, and why should boys be more cringe?
49:27 — Why did Dave’s mom make him take down a political satire ad?
53:55 — What would your car be like as a human roommate for four years?
63:10 — What color would you turn your skin for $100,000?
71:26 — What would you give up for $10 million: embarrassment, overthinking, or something else?

Episode credits:

Producer: Dave Etler
Co-hosts: Moesha Chhatlani, Esha Patel, Devanshee Patel, Nikki Chang
Production: SCP Media Lab–Anna Royer, Cyrus Barati, Isa Perez-Sandi, Zach Grissom, Sarah Upton, Srishti Mathur, David Lee, and Jacob Thompson

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