Med school confidential : a complete guide to the medical school experience, by students, for students / Robert H. Miller and Daniel M. Bissell.
Takes the reader step-by-step through the entire med school process--from thinking about, applying to, and choosing a medical school and program, through the four-year curriculum, internships, residencies, and fellowships, to choosing a specialty and finding the perfect job.
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New York :
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Thinking about med school? Think again
- A road map of the med-school education process
- Surviving premed
- Beating the MCAT
- Crafting the perfect application
- Choosing your school
- Finalizing your AMCAs application and completing your secondaries
- How to ace your med-school interviews
- Handling acceptance, rejection, and everything in between
- The five things to do before classes begin
- Funding your med-school education
- Getting off to the right start in the preclinical years
- The first year : normal systems
- The second year : disease and medicine
- Bringing it all together : the USMLE Step 1 Exam
- Life on the wards
- Problems in the wards-and how to deal with them
- Core clinical rotations
- Bringing it all together again : the USMLE Step 2 Exam
- Elective rotations
- Thinking about residency
- Applying all over again
- Selecting your programs
- Residency interviews
- The match
- Finishing up
- Making the leap
- Starting out strong in residency
- The realities of life with a doc-in-training and strategies for making it livable / by Kimberly Bissell.