Any book/manual on the road to residency

[Dr.McCoy]

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Hello
I hope I am not posting this in the wrong section. I got accepted to medical school about a week ago and kind of at a lost about what in the world I will be doing for the next 4 years starting next fall.

Is there any comprehensive text that summarizes and/or explains the medical school process (when to take boards, how to study, financial advice, how to plan out your years, etc..) up till your residency? I know some of you will say to just relax and wait till medical school starts but to be honest I didn't plan out my pre-med journey at all and I feel like I wasted a year for nothing, I don't want to do that with medical school. Just want to plan/ get a general idea now so I don't have to worry about it in medical school.

Thanks in advance

 

[babdoc]

I feel like my school did a pretty good job of laying things out for you. And what wasn't explicitly said by the school, students from classes ahead filled in the gaps. Your school won't let you "waste" a year; that's much easier to do in undergrad than in med school.

 

[koan]

Is there any comprehensive text that summarizes and/or explains the medical school process (when to take boards, how to study, financial advice, how to plan out your years, etc..) up till your residency?

SDN. Honestly it's the best resource out there. Med School Rx is a decent book but no book will cover all these topics in sufficient depth. When to take boards is school-dependent, how to study is all over SDN, for financial advice White Coat Investor, planning your years again SDN.

 

[ChrisGriffen]

SDN. Honestly it's the best resource out there. Med School Rx is a decent book but no book will cover all these topics in sufficient depth. When to take boards is school-dependent, how to study is all over SDN, for financial advice White Coat Investor, planning your years again SDN.

SDN is very useful, just make sure you check WHO is giving you your advice. This site attracts a lot of users who post about things they have no idea about.

for OP, as far as starting med school you just need to know that boards start at the end of second year, so you have 2 years to learn as much as possible, pass your tests, and stress out about things that don't matter.

 

[NYDO2014]

check out the book successful match by Katta and Desai.

 

[Samir Desai]

Hello
I hope I am not posting this in the wrong section. I got accepted to medical school about a week ago and kind of at a lost about what in the world I will be doing for the next 4 years starting next fall.

Is there any comprehensive text that summarizes and/or explains the medical school process (when to take boards, how to study, financial advice, how to plan out your years, etc..) up till your residency? I know some of you will say to just relax and wait till medical school starts but to be honest I didn't plan out my pre-med journey at all and I feel like I wasted a year for nothing, I don't want to do that with medical school. Just want to plan/ get a general idea now so I don't have to worry about it in medical school.

Thanks in advance

Congratulations to you on your acceptance. I'm sure this is a really exciting time for you. I'm the co-author of the book NYDO2014 wrote about, and I'd be happy to answer any questions that you might have about the book or medical school in general. I'm also a big fan of SDN - there are a lot of people on SDN with fantastic advice.

Samir Desai

 

[itallbelongstoyou]

I was in the 2nd graduating class of one of the newer DO schools and really relied on the internet and national student organizations for advice and networking. I then talked to a lot of people that were in the positions I was about to go into (talk to 2nd years when you're a 1st year; talk to interns when you're a 4th year, etc).

I compiled a lot of the advice into word documents and shared it and later put it in blog format. Feel free to read my blog, it has a lot of info that really takes off mostly in the clinical years of medical school and info on how to get into residency, picking your residency, budgeting, etc. The link is in my signature. Good luck and congrats on your acceptance!

 

[TankTuck]

It's not a book, but check out the website medicalschoolsuccess.com, it was very helpful to me.