Dr. Jessica Molokie from the Not A Medical Marvel Podcast joins Ed to discuss her journey through undergraduate school and medical school. Dr. Molokie is a graduate of a caribbean school that will be starting her residency in Florida in June 20

Episode 21- Covid-19

Mar 30th, 2020 31m 26s

In the setting of the novel coronavirus, or Covid-19, medical education is changing. How does it affect student currently in the clinical setting? How will it change the delivery of medical education in general? Does it change how aspiring medi

Episode 20- The New Step 1

Feb 15th, 2020 39m 21s

I. Background -Step 1 is the first in a series of medical licensing exams for student physicians in the United States -2019, Journal of Academic Medicine, group of medical students talked about the toxic Step 1 environment that develops during

Episode 19- Know Everything?

Jan 27th, 2020 33m 58s

It’s a classic trope in medical school that students need to know everything, but is that actually the case? In this episode, Ed and Mike discuss: Is it okay to not know everything? How should I flag questions on exams? Changing Study Habits

Episode 18- Learning and Study Habits

Nov 3rd, 2019 36m 26s

Learning how to study in medical school can be difficult. Is there a right way? It seems that spaced repetition with programs like Anki might be helpful for most people. What about the right QBank? Ed and Mike discuss all this and more on this

Episode 17- Standardized Testing

Sep 30th, 2019 35m 4s

MedSchoolMedic Episode 17 Show Notes On this episode, Ed and Mike discuss the value (if there is any) of standardized tests and the way that exams in medical schools are administered. Is the MCAT representative of how you’ll perform in medical

Episode 16- Medic to Med School

Aug 28th, 2019 49m 14s

This episode marks the reboot of the MedSchoolMedic Podcast! On this cross-over with MSM’s sister show The Overrun, Dan sits with Ed and Mike to discuss the journey from paramedic to physician…does it help? Can it hurt? How do you do it? If you

Episode 15- Blood Products

Aug 18th, 2017 20m 48s

Should we be giving blood products to trauma patients in the pre-hospital setting? In theory, it would stand to reason that the patient has lost blood, and thus should receive more of it. But that doesn’t exactly pan out in the data. In 2016, t

Episode 14- The NASEMSO Scope of Practice Model

Aug 11th, 2017 31m 32s

Everybody needs to calm down. Calm. The hell. Down. This week, the National Association of State EMS Officials (NASEMSO) published a working draft of the 2018 national EMS scope of practice model. This is, as stated in the title, a working draf

MSM Shorty- More on DL vs. VL

Aug 7th, 2017 8m 3s

We all have our preferences when it comes to intubation. Some prefer DL, others prefer VL. Personally, I’ve always been a proponent of DL. But when it comes to VL, I have my biases as well. So which one works better? It turns out that it depend

Episode 13- Cognitive Offloading

Aug 4th, 2017 17m 31s

Sometimes thinking is hard. In EMS and in medicine in general, there are a lot of things to remember when encountering a patient. What are the right drug dosages? How do we calculate body surface area for burns? What about CPR? The answer to al

MSM Shorty- Ketamine for Agitation

Jul 31st, 2017 5m 11s

Regular listeners will know that here at medschoolmedic, we love Ketamine. Earlier this year, in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine, Riddel et al. explored how effective ketamine would be when given as a first-line drug for excited deli

Episode 12- Physician Shadowing with Mike Defilippo

Jul 28th, 2017 22m 40s

Mike Defilippo joins the podcast to discuss his summer of physician shadowing. What is involved in physician shadowing? Will shadowing help me in medical school, or help me get into medical school? What did he learn from the process? What are t

MSM Shorty-TXA

Jul 24th, 2017 6m 1s

Why use TXA? What is it, and how does it work? Tranexamic Acid, or TXA is a drug that helps control hyperfibronolysis, which is associated with increased mortality. Essentially, the drug works to stop bleeding. TXA has been used in surgical sui

Episode 11- Opioids and Narcan

Jul 21st, 2017 31m 51s

It seems like with each passing day, we hear more and more about opioid overdoses. Its something that was discussed in the early days of this website. Yet, we still seem to hear about the dangers and emerging trends of opioid abuse, and how to

MSM Shorty- The Slow Progress of EMS

Jul 17th, 2017 7m 1s

Why does the profession of EMS seem to move along so slowly? Why do the medications and technology seem to move along at a glacial pace? Today’s shorty explores these topics. Follow MSM on Twitter, Instagram, FacebookThe post MSM Shorty- The

Episode 10 Pt. 2- SMACC Talk with Dan Schwester

Jul 14th, 2017 44m 59s

MSM Clinical guy Dan Schwester joins the pod to discuss the SMACC conference, and rant with Ed about EMS in general. VF arrest mindset Cognitive offloading High-Fidelity simulation Pre-brief Debrief Stress and handling it Communication under st

Episode 10 Pt. 1- SMACC Talk with Dan Schwester

Jul 14th, 2017 34m 27s

MSM Shorty- Oxygenation

Jul 10th, 2017 13m 39s

In 2011, Weingart and Levitan published a paper in Annals describing how oxygenation works during an intubation attempt. This paper was a game changer. It is phenomenally robust paper that uses nothing but the facts and data. It is, in part, a

Episode 9- Flipping the classroom with Anna Brown

Jul 7th, 2017 39m 15s

We’ve talked about flipping the EMS classroom before on this website. Today, we’re joined by paramedic and EMS educator Anna Brown to discuss ways to flip the classroom. We also discuss different ways to handle the classroom environment, and em

MSM Shorty- WTF is REBOA?

Jul 3rd, 2017 7m 2s

REBOA is a acronym for Resuscitative Endovascular Baloon Occlusion of the Aorta. This procedure involves placing a a catheter with a balloon into the aorta (think similar to a cardiac cath) and occluding the aorta, which reduces blood loss. Thi

MSM Podcast Episode 8- TXA

Jun 30th, 2017 23m 53s

TXA. What if there was a drug that would stop bleeding early? What if that drug had been shown to be effective? What would it take for you to use the drug? Over 90 percent of hospitals have some kind of massive transfusion protocol, but only ab

MSM Special- Dan Schwester LIVE from SMACC!

Jun 27th, 2017 23m 5s

A special episode of the MedschoolMedic podcast! MSM Clinical Guy Dan Schwester joins us from Berlin to discuss the SMACC conference, and the SMACCforce pre-conference. LOTS of good stuff from Berlin. SMACC Twitter: #SMACC #SMACCforce Clinical

MSM Shorty- Do more paramedics lead to better outcomes?

Jun 26th, 2017 6m 49s

Do more paramedics lead to better outcomes? Generally speaking, we think that more is better. But that may not be the case. Hagiwara, et al performed a prospective, observational study on patients experiencing put of hospital cardiac arrest. Th

MSM Podcast Episode 7- Dual Sequential Defibrillation

Jun 23rd, 2017 30m 55s

MSM Podcast Episode 7- Dual Sequential Defibrillation We’ve mentioned plenty of time on this podcast that we have no real idea what we’re doing for cardiac arrest patients. The guidelines we work are not always consistent with the science. Ther