Med School Confidential : a complete guide to the Medical School Experience : by students, for students /
Robert H. Miller, Daniel M. Bissell
- New York : St. Martin's Griffin : Thomas Dunne Books, 2006
- xviii, 282 p. : il.
1. Thinking about med school? Think again -- 21 2. A road map of the med-school education process -- 33 3. Surviving premed -- 43 4. Beating the MCAT -- 51 5. Crafting the perfect application -- 67 6. Choosing your school -- 84 7. Finalizing your AMCAs application and completing your secondaries -- 91 8. How to ace your med-school interviews -- 94 9. Handling acceptance, rejection, and everything in between -- 102 10. The five things to do before classes begin -- 111 11. Funding your med-school education -- 123 12. Getting off to the right start in the preclinical years -- 128 13. The first year : normal systems -- 138 14. The second year : disease and medicine -- 151 15. Bringing it all together : the USMLE Step 1 Exam -- 156 16. Life on the wards -- 165 17. Problems in the wards-and how to deal with them -- 182 18. Core clinical rotations -- 186 19. Bringing it all together again : the USMLE Step 2 Exam -- 202 20. Elective rotations -- 207 21. Thinking about residency -- 211 22. Applying all over again -- 220 23. Selecting your programs -- 224 24. Residency interviews -- 228 25. The match -- 233 26. Finishing up -- 237 27. Making the leap -- 243 28. Starting out strong in residency -- 247 29. The realities of life with a doc-in-training and strategies for making it livable / by Kimberly Bissell -- 259