Match-season coaching for medical students headed toward emergency medicine.
EM Stud coaches medical students pursuing emergency medicine, as Scott and Dr. Nate Lewis work through Match data, away rotations and virtual interviews under the Clerkship Directors in Emergency Medicine banner. Guests widen the view, from a VCU toxicology panel to a frank question about the specialty's job market.
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EM Stud is a coaching podcast for medical students headed toward emergency medicine, operating under the Clerkship Directors in Emergency Medicine, an academy of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. Scott, who introduces himself as the 'EMed coach', pairs with Dr. Nate Lewis, known on air as ER Dr. Nate. Some episodes run on one of them alone. The reason is usually a shift, and one opener has a partner away fighting off disease, pestilence and injuries in the ER. The core subject is the application cycle, treated as a set of practical problems. Two Match episodes look back at an atypical 2021 season, and one opens by sketching a normal year of home and away rotations followed by interview travel before setting it against a season reshaped by COVID-19. The numbers get real attention, including NRMP data that has only recently separated out osteopathic applicants. The Match conversations also include a program-side account of screening every application, with the blunt takeaway that metrics still matter even as emergency medicine leans into holistic review. In '2021 Match Report Part 2 with Dr. Mike Van Meter', one of the pair admits to conducting most interviews from home, and the talk turns to what virtual interviews gained, starting with cost savings for applicants. For hands-on advice, 'Virtual Interviews, Take Two!' is the natural place to start. It responds to Coalition for Physician Accountability recommendations for the 2021-22 interview season, issued during the Delta surge with applicant equity and well-being in mind. The checklist is concrete: a quiet space, good lighting, perhaps a ring light or an external microphone, and attention to how you are dressed. One voice adds a reassuring story about a computer that refused to hold a charge and everyone taking it in stride. The second strand is career exploration. A series titled 'What I Want to Be When I Grow Up' has reached into EMS, medical education and critical care. 'Toxicology With The VCU Tox Team' brings a Virginia Commonwealth University panel, including first-year medical toxicology fellow Emily Kirshner, to describe a field that runs from herbal supplements and snake and scorpion bites to workplace exposures, and to retire the idea that it is a 'Tylenol and aspirin fellowship'. Dr. Gillian Schmitz, a longtime friend of the podcast, fields a direct question about the emergency medicine job market and answers with history: a specialty recognized only in 1979 that spent decades asking for more training slots and now risks becoming a victim of its own success. 'How COVID Changed My Medical Education' hands the microphone to students, who describe losing the routines that kept them going between study sessions, the loss of a prominent emergency physician, and attendings who took them under their wing. One student, from Texas A&M, says the pandemic only strengthened the pull toward the field. The voice throughout is collegial and upbeat, with a joke about 'recovering clerkship directors' sitting comfortably beside sincere good wishes to students entering application season. Several episodes are tied to the 2021 cycle, so their specifics read best as a record of that season, though the recurring sign-off, 'Rotate well, my friends', travels well.
Made for: Suits a medical student who is considering or committed to emergency medicine and wants plain guidance on rotations, virtual interviews and the Match, plus a look at paths such as medical toxicology.
What sets it apart: It focuses on the route into the specialty more than bedside teaching, and it hears that route from the side that runs it: the show operates under the Clerkship Directors in Emergency Medicine and brings in program-side voices on application screening, holistic review and virtual interviews.
What is an EM Stud? 1. A medical student with the drive and determination to learn as much as possible about Emergency Medicine. 2. A medical student whose knowledge, compassion, and work ethic is above and beyond the rest. 3. A medical student who will one day become a great emergency physician. 4. A podcast for EM Studs-brought to you by the Clerkship Directors in Emergency Medicine (an academy of SAEM)
Scott and Nate take your Zoom-interview nerves all the way to a toxicology fellowship.
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A grounded workforce discussion on emergency medicine's path toward saturation and what its leaders can do next.
EMStud's conversation with Dr. Schmitz gives an emergency-medicine workforce debate a useful sense of history and consequence. She follows the specialty from the era before board-certified emergency physicians through its 1979 recognition, then shows how decades of expansion…
A policy update turns into practical guidance for residency interviews when the room, Wi-Fi, or computer causes trouble.
EM Stud frames the coming 2021-22 residency interview season as a practical response to the Coalition for Physician Accountability's COVID-19 Delta variant recommendations, with applicant equity and well-being kept in view.
A measured program-side look at what Match Day 2021 suggested for holistic review and virtual interviews in emergency medicine.
Match Day 2021 lands on the EM Stud Podcast as a useful checkpoint after an unusual application season, with Scott and Nate keeping the conversation centered on what the results might signal for the next cycle. Dr.
A candid look at COVID-era medical training and the students whose commitment to emergency medicine grew under pressure.
Medical education during COVID comes through as both a disruption to training and a test of vocation. Scott Wieters and ER Dr. Nate gather students describing study routines stripped of normal outlets, anxiety about returning to clinical settings and away rotations, and…
A grounded tour of toxicology, from exposures and bites to fellowship training and poison-center work.
Toxicology With The VCU Tox Team frames toxicology as a broader, more practical field than the usual Tylenol-and-aspirin shorthand. The discussion moves through xenobiotics, environmental exposures, snake and scorpion bites, stings, herbal supplements, and occupational questions…
Local medicine, told through physicians' lives.
Clinical oncology evidence, translated into treatment decisions.
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EM Stud’s “Virtual Interviews, Take Two!” centers on the Coalition for Physician Accountability’s August 25 recommendation that residency interviews be conducted virtually for the 2021-22 cycle.
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EM Stud’s “How COVID Changed My Medical Education” brings together eight medical students, including Kayla Nussbaum, Dan Hubbard, Angela Wen, Callie, Colton Juneau, Juliana Castrellon, Billy Shank, and Lauren Bayliss, plus hosts Scott Wieters and Nate.
EM Stud’s “Toxicology With The VCU Tox Team” features Nate Lewis with Dr.
EM Stud hosts Nate and Dr.
EM Stud host Scott Weeders interviews University of Wisconsin associate program director Ben Schnapp about the match and student rank lists.
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Hosts Nate Lewis and Scott Wieters interview Dr.
Medical students discuss their experiences and strategies for residency interviews during M4 year.
Host Nate Lewis and three new interns discuss their experiences and insights from the M4 year of medical school, focusing on emergency medicine.
This episode re-releases an old segment on nailing the interview for emergency medicine residency applicants.
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