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Premedical Advising
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Premedical Advising
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Premed: Helpful Books Return to Premedical Index page *****Medical School Admission Requirements - Association of American Medical Colleges; Attn: Public Relations; One Dupont Circle, Suite 200; Washington, DC 20036. (Contains descriptions of the application process and admission information on all accredited medical schools) This is available at most bookstores and comes out in the spring of every year. A comparable book about osteopathic medical schools can be ordered online from the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine. (http:/www.aascom.org) Minority Student Opportunities in United States Medical School (MSOUSMS) To be used by minority students as a companion for the above book.
You can find other books of interest on the web. Interesting, Fun Books to Read
Here are some books which are entertaining to read and informative about medical practice. Anne Fadiman's book is especially relevant to the Valley since she deals with a severe medical problem of a Hmong child in Merced and the cultural problems which became relevant to the treatment. Read; read; read! Austin, Paul. (2008) Something for the Pain: One Doctor's Account of Life and Death in the ER Broyard, Anatole. (1992). Intoxicated by Illness. New York: Ballantine Books. Bursztajn, Harold, Feinbloom, Richard, Hamm, Robert, & Brodsky, Archie. (1981). Medical Choices, Medical Chances. How Patients, Familits and Physicians Can Cope with Uncertainty. New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence. Chen, Pauline. (2007) Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflection on Mortality Coles, Robert. (1989). The Call of Stories. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Colgrove, Melba, Bloomfield, Harold, & McWilliams, Peter. (1976). How to Survive the Loss of a Love. Los Angeles: Prelude Press. Gawande, Atul. () The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. Gawande, Atul. ( 2007) Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance Gawande, Atul. (2002). Complications: A Young Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science. New York: Henry Holt and Company. Groopman, Jerome. (2007). How Doctors Think: Critical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine. Fadiman, Anne. (1997). The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Jauhar, Sandeep. (2007) Intern: A Doctor's Initiation Kidder, Tracy. (2003) Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World. Kleinman, Arthur. (1988). The Illness Narratives. New York: Basic Books, Inc. Konner, Melvin. (1988). Becoming a Doctor. New York: Penguin Books. Magee, Mike. (2004). Positive Leadership. 3rd edition. New York: Spencer Books. Magee, Mike. (1999). The Best Medicine: Doctors, Patients and the Covenant of Caring. St. Martin's Press. Remen, Rachael Naomi. (1996). Kitchen Table Wisdom. New York, Riverhead Books. Verghese, Abraham. (1998). The Tennis Partner. New York: Harper Perennial. Verghese, Abraham. (1995). My Own Country: A Doctor's Story. New York: Vintage Books.
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