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ResourceHow To Ace Your Anesthesiology Rotation
A guide to acing an anesthesiology rotation shows a student who has positioned the patient, placed monitors, prepared drugs, …
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ResourceHow To Ace Your Radiology Rotation
A radiology trainee impresses the attending by making the worklist lighter in every sense, after hacking the electronic record to …
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ResourceHow to Ace Your General Surgery Rotation
A general surgery rotation sketch shows trainees racing through rounds in under a minute after reporting which patients passed gas …
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ResourceResearch Hot Take
In this short monologue, Flanary doubles down on a controversial podcast opinion that medical and pre-medical student research …
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ResourceRandom Education: The Brachial Plexus
In this Random Education installment, a teacher offers to cancel lecture if one student can draw the brachial plexus from memory …
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ResourceThe Post-Match Ophthalmology Elective
A fourth-year student who has already matched into orthopedic surgery arrives for a post-match ophthalmology elective expecting a …
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ResourceThe On Call Pathologist
A medical student joins the on-call pathologist for a shift that turns out to be a nonstop stream of odd calls from across the …
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ResourcePathology Being The Nicest Person In The Hospital
A warm satire presenting Pathology as the friendliest presence in the hospital. Scenes show pathologists lavishing attention on a …
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ResourceGeneral Surgery Does What General Surgery Wants
A longer compilation of general surgery material: a medical student's first rotation of door-opening and impossible questions, an …
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ResourceThe Radiologist Sees Everything
This sketch spends a shift with the hospital's lone on-call radiologist, who never removes his lead apron, keeps indoor sunglasses …
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ResourceFirst Day Of Plastic Surgery
A medical student shadows Plastic Surgery in an OR presented as luxurious, with massage chairs, sparkling drinks, music, and …
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ResourceThe Pediatrician Being Too Good For This World
This sketch tours pediatrics through a new med student's orientation, opening with the pediatrician's cheerful insistence that …
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ResourceHow To Explain The Match
A medical student tries to explain the residency Match to an outsider and keeps shocking them. Flanary runs through applying to …
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ResourceFirst Day of Pulmonology
A new student is welcomed to pulmonology with instant lung-function testing and jokes graded like a performance review. Flanary …
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ResourceFirst Day of Pediatric Oncology
A new medical student expects pediatric oncology to be unrelentingly sad, but Flanary's attending insists the work is deeply …
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ResourceMed Student’s Last Day of Internal Medicine
On a medical student's last day on internal medicine, everything goes impossibly well: the presentation earns extravagant praise, …
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ResourceWorking the Night Shift
A medical student starts a first emergency department night shift and meets a team that openly describes the schedule as slowly …
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ResourceMed Student Home Invasion
A medical student takes an attending's assignment far too literally, appearing in the attending's home at night, family nearby, …
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ResourceHaving Fun with General Surgery
Flanary plays a general surgery attending who tells a nervous medical student the rotation will be fun, then subjects the student to …
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ResourceFirst Day of Sleep Medicine
A new medical student arrives for a sleep medicine rotation and is immediately diagnosed, on sight, with poor sleep hygiene by the …
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ResourceGoing to Therapy Compilation Part 1
A compilation of therapy-themed sketches in which personified specialties bring their work pathologies to a psychiatrist. Radiology …
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ResourceFirst Day of Interventional Radiology
A medical student starts in Interventional Radiology and is immediately scolded for not wearing lead, then quizzed on catheter sizes …
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ResourceWhere to Stand in the OR
In this Arabic-captioned sketch, a new medical student on his first surgery day is repeatedly directed farther and farther from the …
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ResourceMed Student vs Brain
Flanary personifies a medical student's own brain as a tormentor who wakes the student the night before an exam and insists that …
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