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Recommended Reading

Authoritative Guides to Health Professions Schools

Medical College Admissions Requirements
The most authoritative guide to all U.S. and Canadian medical schools. The MSAR is the #1 source for: (1) application procedures and deadlines, (2) selection factors such as MCAT and GPA data, (3) medical school class profiles (4) costs and financial aid packages, (5) MD/PhD and other combined degrees, (6) graduates' specialty choices. Go t http://www.aamc.org/students/applying/msar.htm

Veterinary Medical School Admission Requirements
The publication Veterinary Medical School Admission Requirements (VMSAR) contains admission requirements and contact information for all 32 U.S. and Canadian veterinary medical colleges, as well as the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh. VMSAR provides an overview of the application and enrollment processes along with specific information on each of our member colleges. For ordering information, go to http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/ or call the distributor at 1-800-247-6553.

Official Guide to Dental Schools
The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) publishes the "ADEA Official Guide to Dental Schools", which contains comprehensive information on requirements for application and admission to every accredited dental school in the United States and Canada. This publication is the best single source of extensive information on schools, including curricula, expenses, and other valuable data. All applicants are encouraged to obtain the "Official Guide to Dental Schools".

Planning Guides

Getting Into Medical School: A Planning Guide For Minority Students.   Edited By Edward J. James, M.D., MBA,  Karen E. Hamilton, Ph.D.  Betz Publishing Company, Rockville, MD, 1996, ISBN 0-941406-51-2.

Getting Into Medical School!  A Guide For The Perplexed, 2nd Edition By Kenneth V. Iserson, M.D., Galen Press Ltd., Office Of Pre-Professional Advising Library.

The Premedical Planning Guide  By Jane Diehl Crawford.  Betz Publishing Company, Rockville, Md, 1993.  Isbn 0-941406-39-3.  $12.50.

Medical Professions Admission Guide: Strategy For Success By The National Association Of Advisors For The Health Professions, $17.95 From The Naahp, P.O. Box 1518, Champaign, Il 61824-1518. Telephone (217) 355-0063.

31 Questions I Wish I Had Asked. Compiled By The Organization Of Student Representatives Of The Association Of American Medical Colleges, January, 1992.

Write For Success: Preparing A Successful Professional School Application By The National Association Of Advisors For The Health Professions, $5.00 From The Naahp, P.O. Box 1518, Champaign, Il 61824-1518.  Telephone (217) 355-0063.

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Visit The AAMC Website: http://www.aamc.org/students/amcas

Other Resources

The MCAT Student Manual And Five Practice Tests. For More Information See: http://www.aamc.org/students/mcat/about/mcatstudentmanual.pdf

300 Ways To Put Your Talent To Work In The Health Field
The National Health Council, Email: info@nhcouncil.org, & http://www.nhcouncil.org

Health Pathways
Newsletter Of The Health Professions Career Opportunity Program.  This Is An Excellent Source For Current Information On A Wide Array Of Health Professions, Including Medicine. 
Email: kmunster@oshpd.state.ca.us

Dental Medicine

Admission Requirements For U.S. and Canadian Dental Schools
http://www.aamc.org

Opportunities For Minority Students In U.S. Dental Schools
Published By American Dental Education Association
http://www.adea.org/links.html

Osteopathic Medicine

American Association Of Colleges Of Osteopathic Medicine
http://www.aacom.org

Veterinary Medicine

Veterinary Medical School Admission Requirements
http://aavmc.org/vmcas.htm

If Wishes Were Horses
Loretta Gage

The New York Times And The Journals Of Academic Medicine,  The New Physician, American Medical News And Jama

Other Recommended Readings

Aging

Patrimony: A True Story
Philip Roth

The Story Of A Mother And Her Son
Andrew Malcolm

History

Chiropractic In America: The History Of A Medical Alternative
Stuart Moore

Living In The Shadow Of Death: Tuberculosis And The Social Experience Of Illness In American History
Sheil Rothman

Other Healers: Unorthodox Medicine In America
Norman Gevitz

The D.O. As Osteopathic Medicine In America
Norman Gevitz

The Medical Messiahs, A Social History Of Health Quackery In Twentieth-Century America
Harvey Young

The Plaque Makers
Jeffrey Fister

The Social Transformation Of American Medicine
Paul Starr

Hospitals

Animal Hospital
Stephen Sawicki

Five Patients: The Hospital Explained
Michael Crichton

Stories Of Sickness
Howard Brody

Taking Care Of Our Own: A Year In The Life Of A Small Hospital
Susan Garrett

Ward Six And Other Stories
Anton Chekhov

Medical Ethics

Classic Cases In Medical Ethics: Accounts Of Cases That Have Shaped Medical Ethics With Philosophical, Legal, And Historical Background
Gregory E. Pence

Doctors' Dilemmas
Samuel Gorovitz

Drawing The Line, Life, Death, And Ethical Choices In An American Hospital
Samuel Gorovitz

Forgive And Remember: Managing Medical Failure
Charles L. Bosk

The Corporate Transformation Of Health Care: Perspectives And Implications
J. Warren Salmon

The Social Transformation Of American Medicine
Paul Starr

Medical Science

Late Night Thoughts On Listening To Mahler's Ninth Symphony
Lewis Thomas

The Fragile Species
Lewis Thomas

The Lives Of A Cell: Notes Of A Biology Watcher
Lewis Thomas

The Medusa And The Snail: More Notes Of A Biology Watcher
Lewis Thomas

The Youngest Science: Notes Of A Medicine-Watcher
Lewis Thomas

Other Perspectives

Doctor As Stories: The Narrative Structure Of Medical Knowledge
Kathryn Hunter

Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity In American  Culture From The Days Of Polio To The Age Of Aids
Emily Martin

Health and Healing
Andrew Weil

Illness As Metaphor and Aids and Its Metaphors
Susan Sontag

Reconstructing Illness: Studies In Pathography
Anne Hawkins

Stories Of Sickness
Howard Brody

The Call Of Service: A Witness To Idealism
Robert Coles

The Call Of Stories, Teaching And The Moral Imagination
Robert Coles

The Woman In The Body: A Cultural Analysis Of Reproduction
Emily Martin

Why We Get Sick: The New Science Of Darwinian Medicine
Randolph M. Neese And George C. Williams

Patients

A Leg To Stand On
Oliver Sacks

A Whole New Life
Reynolds Price

A Taste Of My Own Medicine: When The Doctor Is The Patient
Edward Rosenbaum

At The Will Of The Body: Reflections On Illness
Arthur Frank

Darkness Visible: A Memoir Of Madness
William Stryon

Equal Partners
Jody Heymann

Girl Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen

Intoxicated By My Illness
Anatole Broyard

It's Always Something
Gilda Radner

Medical Choices, Medical Chances: How Patients, Families And Physicians Can Cope With Uncertainty
Harold Bursztajn

Middlemarch
George Eliot

My Own Country
Abraham Verghese

My Year Off, Recovering Life After A Stroke
Robert McCrum

Not All Of Us Are Saints
Hilfiker David

On Being A Doctor
Edited By Michael A. Lacombe

The Cancer Journals
Audre Lorde

The Diagnosis
Alan Lightman

Poetry

Landscape With Human Figure, 2002

Jama Online Interview with Dr. Campo
Rafael Campo

On Wings Of Spirit, 2002
An Anthology Penned By 30 Different Practitioners

The Desire To Heal: A Doctor's Education In Empathy, Identity, And Poetry
Rafael Campo

Practice

A Piece Of My Mind: A Collection Of Essays From Jama
Bruce Dan And Roxanne Young

American Health Quackery: Collected Essays
James Harvey Young

A Robert Coles Omnibus
Robert Coles

Becoming A Doctor: A Journey Of Initiation Into Medical School
Melvin Konner

Boys In White: Student Culture In Medical School
Howard S. Becker

Breaking Out Of the "Male Mold": Increasing Female Leadership In Academic Medicine
Barbara A. Gabriel

Caring For Patients From Different Cultures: Case Studies From American Hospitals
Geri-Ann Galanti

Complications : A Surgeon's Notes On An Imperfect Science
Atul Gawande

Doctors
Sherwin B. Nuland

Doctor's Stories: The Narrative Structure Of Medical Knowledge
Kathryn Hunter

Darkness Visible: A Memoir Of Madness
William Styron

Empathy And The Practice Of Medicine, Beyond The Pill And The Scapel
Howard Spiro, Et Al.

Gifted Hands, The Ben Carson Story
Ben Carson

Healing From The Heart...The Power Of Complementary Medicine
Mehmet Oz, Et Al.

Healing The Wounds: A Physician Looks At His Work
David Hilfiker

Health And Healing
Andrew Weil

Health Care Systems Around The World
Marie L. Oassey, William R. Lassey, Martin Jinks

Heirs Of General Practice
John McPhee

Housecalls: How We Can All Heal The World One Visit At A Time
Patch Adams And Pamela Jacobs

How We Die
Sherwin Nuland 

In The Country Of Hearts: Journeys In The Art Of Medicine
John Stone

Learning To Play God
Robert Marion

Letters To A Young Doctor
Richard Selzer

Life After Medical School
Leonard Laster

Living In The Shadow Of Death: Tuberculosis And The Social Experience Of Illness In American History
Sheil Rothman

Married To Their Careers: Career And Family
Dilemmas In Doctors' Lives

Lane Gerber

Mountains Beyond Mountains (A Biographical Look at Dr. Paul Farmer)
Tracy Kidder

The Biography Of Medicine
Sherwin B. Nuland

The Corporate Transformation Of Health Care: Perspectives And Implications
J. Warren Salmon (Ed.)

The Doctor Stories
William Carlos Williams

The Intern Blues
Robert Marion

The Medical Messiahs, A Social History Of Health Quackery In Twentieth-Century America
James Harvey Young

The Plaque Makers
Jeffrey Fister

The Social Transformation Of American Medicine
Paul Starr

The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and The Collision Of Two Cultures
Anne Fadiman

The Woman In The Body: A Cultural Analysis Of Reproduction
Emily Martin

Time To Heal
Kenneth Ludmerer

When The Phone Rings, My Bed Shakes: Memoirs Of A Deaf Doctor
Philip Zazove

White Coat, White Cane: The Extraordinary Odyssey Of A  Blind Physician
David Hartman & B. Asbell

Why We Get Sick: The New Science Of Darwinian Medicine
Randolph M. Nesse & George C. Williams

Women In Medicine: Getting In, Growing, and Advancing
Janet Bickel

Tough Decision: A Casebook In Medical Ethics
John M. Freeman

First, Do No Harm
Lisa Belkin

Joycelyn Elders, M.D., From Sharecropper's Daughter To Surgeon General Of The USA
Joycelyn Elders

The Scalpel And The Silver Bear
Lori Arviso Alvord

Training

A Not Entirely Benign Procedure
Perry Klass

Baby Doctor
Perry Klass

Baby E.R.: The Heroic Doctors And Nurses Who Perform Medicine's Tiniest Miracles
Edward Humes

Becoming A Doctor: A Journey Of Initiation In Medical School
Melvin Konner

Boys In White: Student Culture In Medical School
Howard S. Becker

Caring For Patients From Different Cultures: Case Studies From American Hospitals
Geri-Ann Galanti

Educational and Career Opportunities In Alternative Medicine
Rosemary Jones

Gentle Vengeance
Charles Lebaron

Health Care Systems Around The World: Characteristics, Issues, Reforms
Marie L. Lassey, William R. Lassey, And Martin Jinks

Health Professional and Patient Interaction
Ruth B. Purtilo And Amy Haddad

Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle For Survival At The South Pole
Jerri Nielsen

Learning To Play God: The Coming Of Age Of A Young Doctor
Robert Marion

Let Me Listen To Your Heart
Edited By David S. Svahn

Out Of My Life and Thought
Albert Schweitzer

Planning Your Career In Alternative Medicine: A Guide To Degree And Certificate Programs In Alternative Healthcare
Dianne Boulerice Lyons

Residents: The Perils and Promise Of Educating Young Doctors
David Ewing Diuncan

The Human Side Of Medicine: Learning What It's Like To A Patient And What It's Like To Be A Physician
Laurence A. Savett

The Intern Blues
Robert Marion

The Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Explores Myth, Medicine, and The Human Body
Sherwin B. Nuland

The Pact: Three Young Men Make A Promise and Fulfill A Dream
Sampson Davis

Time To Heal
Kenneth Ludmerer

White Coat: Becoming A Doctor At Harvard Medicine
Ellen Lerner Rothman

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