BEst book that describes the med school experience?

[jamilla_w]

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Any recommendations?

 

[mmcnam]

"What I Learned from Med School" is ok, but I'm not a fan of how it focuses exclusively on diversity. I much prefer reading books about residency because that's where there are a lot of patient cases discussed. "Med School Confidential" is informative and not anecdotal, but it does discuss what med school is like. I get the impression, from the lack of narrative biographies about med school, that the good stuff comes later.

There is this one title that I can't remember, but it's about Harvard med students and the lessons they learn... amazon would have it if you searched for medical school.

 

[baylormed]

Medical school book:

Today I studied. Then I studied some more.

(repeat for 500 pages, over 4 years)

 

[Law2Doc]

Any recommendations?

There isn't a great one the way there is for eg law school (eg. 1L). I liked "A Not Entirely Benign Procedure" by Peri Klass about Harvard.
"House of God", by Shem, is a also great book, but is about residency, not med school.

 

[burningsky]

Dante's Inferno

 

[PreMedMommy]

Dante's Inferno

Thanks for the giggle!

 

[Depakote]

Not a book, but this thread does the job.