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u/Uanaka · -1 pointsr/premed

"Then you wouldn't understand" and "In Indian culture" where you related it back to your own ethnicity. That's literally all I had to read to get the impression. And I'm not saying that that it's east Asians, but these challenges shouldn't be isolated to certain ethnicities. Anyone who researches into the degrees, MD/DO would have similar concerns and that's perfectly fine. But it's also important to understand the motivation and reasoning that led to the "condescending" view of Osteopathy.

I highly recommend The DOs: Osteopathic Medicine in America , not just to you, but anyone that is curious about the degree.

Granted my experience is from my father, who is a practicing MD, but even in the 90's when he was completing his residency, DOs were still seen as similar and equivalent at least in the medical field. Of course, the patient's perspective was probably condescending, but in the medical field as long as you produced similar results and work with scientific backing, all was good.

u/kangaroons · 1 pointr/premed

It's not specific to those two courses, but the Khan Academy app has really good tutorials on aspects of physio, like action potentials and muscle contraction. You can download it here, or just search on the store on your phone (it's free):

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/khan-academy/id469863705?mt=8

I haven't taken anatomy yet (I plan on it second semester this coming year), but I took a course on greek/latin origins in med terminolgy...this book is amazing and I feel will make anatomy a lot more manageble:

http://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Medical-Language-Student-Directed-Approach/dp/0323073085

Good luck this semester!

u/darklink37 · 2 pointsr/premed

Thanks for the write-up, I'm just starting to study for the MCAT and I found it pretty helpful. I have a few questions:


  1. I wanted to get some of the TPR books for content review and practice, but I'm not sure which ones to get because there are so many. Do you mind sharing the book titles of the ones you used? I did a search on Amazon and found this: http://www.amazon.com/Biology-Review-Graduate-School-Preparation/dp/0375427929/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373685891&sr=1-1&keywords=the+princeton+review+mcat Did you use that one plus the others for each subject? Do those subject specific books have enough practice questions for that topic, or do I need additional books for that? When I did a search for TPR practice books, I found Cracking the MCAT 2013-2014, MCAT Workout, MCAT Elite, MCAT Hyperlearning... not sure which one to use.


  2. How many full length tests did you take, and when did you take them with respect to your test date? For the TPR FL's I assume you have to buy the book new to get the practice exams. Do you get 2 different exams for each book you buy or are they the same?

  3. Has the MCAT changed any in the past few years other than removing the writing section? (I just want to make sure the study materials I use aren't outdated).

  4. In the month leading up to your exam, did you devote all your time to studying, or did you have other commitments (work, school, etc.)?
u/cooltrumpet · 1 pointr/premed

Don't bother, you'll get enough of it in med school haha.

As far as I know, one of the gold standards for anatomy is the Frank H Netter material. There's a nice Atlas of Human Anatomy (keep in mind an atlas usually doesn't have information about the functions of any anatomy, just the names), and study cards (even referenced here).

Gray's Anatomy is good (obviously), but really long. The student's version may be shorter/more manageable.

My undergrad class used Grant's Atlas of Anatomy/Grant's Dissector, and a Human Anatomy textbook. They were not bad as well. Anatomy material is always pretty dry.

If you can, maybe see what your school uses? That way you won't start reading and then have to switch to a different book (though I suppose extra reading is never a bad thing).

And congrats again on getting into med school!

u/tert_butoxide · 2 pointsr/premed

Came here to say Oliver Sacks (neuroscience).
I picked up a used copy of the DSM-IV casebook; it's very cheap since the DSM-V has come out. Diagnoses may be outdated but the stories are still there!

There are casebooks in other fields, too-- Surgery, multiple specialities, medical ethics, [pediatrics] (http://www.amazon.com/Files-Pediatrics-Fourth-Edition-LANGE/dp/0071766987/ref=pd_rhf_se_s_cp_9_EQ6W?ie=UTF8&refRID=1WJ16SB6971PCJ94TK2S). Your college library ought to have new-ish ones you can read for free.

I'm also encouraged by reading scientific journal articles in medical fields (research is exciting).

Other stuff: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks isn't about a doctor, but it's about a patient and the HeLa cell line that's been so important to medicine. My decision to go into medicine was affected by The Plague, a novel by Albert Camus about a plague-stricken city. (Main character is a doctor, though not exactly a modern MD.)

u/mccartymccarty · -2 pointsr/premed

If this is the case, you should look at your application. Did you reach out to your dream lab before you applied? Did you ask one of your strongest references for an introduction to some of the professors at the school?

This is something I wrote about extensively in a book I recently published. Applying isn't enough. You need to work your entire network. Don't hope to get accepted, guarantee your acceptance by putting in the time and effort to build relationships with influential people in your field.

u/NothingToulouse · 6 pointsr/premed

I used The Princeton Review's materials, and I highly recommend them. TPR books go into a good level of depth. These are the books I'm talking about: Chemistry and Physics.

The books have an online component which has a lot of very good practice passages and practice tests.

Another book that's helpful is the Princeton Review MCAT science workbook (older versions may have "Hyperlearning" in the name). It's a big fat book with tons of free-standing questions and passages for general chemistry, organic chemistry, physics, and biology. You may not need this, given that you've got a set of EK books.

u/AmbiguousHexagon · 3 pointsr/premed

Aside from your MCAT prep, I recommend:
https://www.amazon.com/Sociology-13th-Richard-T-Schaefer/dp/0078026660

I've read this a few times. It's a really good textbook.

u/probably_apocryphal · 2 pointsr/premed

There are a lot of pop psychology books that cover at least the social psychological parts of what I learned:

The Person and Situation by Lee Ross and Richard Nisbett

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

What Makes Love Last by John Gottman

Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein

(Caveat: I've only read Thinking, Fast and Slow and Nudge, but the others are from well-respected authors/leaders in their fields.)

u/solinaceae · 2 pointsr/premed

Here's a published collection. They're for US medical schools, but I'd imagine that UK tastes can't differ too terribly.

u/purplepalmtree9 · 1 pointr/premed

You could buy this book but if you don't want to just read the wikipedia article on Osteopathic Medicine.