Med school confidential: a complete guide to the medical school experience, by students, for students

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.