Today’s Healthcare Careers are More Varied Than Ever. Explore Them Before You Risk Med School

Schools want to know that you’ve looked at other careers, otherwise they won’t take a chance on you. TL;DR Listener Preston is weighing PharmD or MD school. How can he choose, and how his process of choosing make schools feel better about him?Brylee didn’t get into med school this time around, is facing a tight turnaround for the next application season, and she hasn’t even got a compelling gap year job lined up yet. Is she risking another rejection by rushing things?M4 Mackenzie Walhof and M1s Happy Kumar, Matt Engelken, and Jacob Hansen try to convey their passion for random, made-up gap year. Can they convince a skeptical interviewer? We Want to Hear From You How’d we do on this week’s show? Did we miss anything in our conversation? Did we anger you? Did we make you smile? Call us at 347-SHORTCT anytime  or email theshortcoats@gmail.com.  It’s always a pleasure to hear from you!We want to know more about you: Take the Listener Survey We do more things on… Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theshortcoatYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheShortCoat 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 resources there to theshortcoats@gmail.com. We love you. Music provided by Argofox.  License: bit.ly/CCAttributionDOCTOR VOX – Heatstroke: youtu.be/j1n1zlxzyRE Catmosphere – Candy-Coloured Sky: youtu.be/AZjYZ8Kjgs8 ;Hexalyte – Wandering Hours: youtu.be/FOAo2zsYnvA;