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 | | The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Medical Specialty by Brian Freeman ISBN-10: 9780071479417 ISBN-10: 0-07-147941-4 ISBN-13: 9780071479417 ISBN-13: 978-0-07-147941-7 Paperback 2007-05-02 McGraw-Hill Medical Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description The one book medical students must read before they choose their specialty Here is the first medical-specialty selection guide written by a resident for students. Readers will find an inside look at the issues surrounding medical specialty selection, blending firsthand knowledge with useful facts and statistics. The author includes invaluable insights from his personal experience, candid reports from current residents, and a wealth of research. This unique resource is divided into two sections, the first of which delves into the art of choosing the right specialty and covers personality assessment, considerations for women and couples who are matching, specialty overviews, and the ins and outs of the residency application and match process. The second section comprises 19 chapters, each written by a resident in a particular specialty. These chapters include “The Inside Scoop”—revealing specialty lifestyles, training requirements, and predominant personality types. | ||
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Best book of it's kind! I read this book when I started medical school and then reviewed it throughout school. The book is written by a physician who had recently been in residency training in anesthesia and it seems like he found doctors he knew from medical school and residency to write each chapter about each different specialty. This approach works well b/c then you get to hear all of the Pros and Cons from and actual physician in that specialty. The book has lots of basic info on how to select a specialty as well as info on the match and the competitiveness of different specialties. Each specialty chapter gives background info on the specialty. It also gives info like average salary, average work week, competitiveness, ave USMLE score (for some chapters), fellowship opportunities, personality type of the specialty. This is a very helpful resource which is good to own or check out from your medical school library. | ||
MUST BUY Of all the books I've read in medical school this is the most important. Most other books about residency have one page summaries of the specialties and talk mainly about interviewing and applying. This book has 20 pages per specialty written by a resident in the field with personality profiles, pay scales, ways to pad your CV, honest info on the dark sides of certain specialties, etc. Also there are several chapters at the beginning explaining the way the computer algorithm works for the match and how the match came to be out of recent history. It is a must read for every medical student during the third year. I recommend reading it over Christmas so you can finalize your decision by March and set up fourth year accordingly. | ||
A Great Reference for 95% of US Medical Students If you're having trouble deciding what particular path of medicine to follow, this guide could be very beneficial. With all of the studying/reading/slaving one does as a medical student, it's easy to forget that you quickly need to decide what you want to be when you grow up. Written by a collection of very talented people who seemingly all studying or trained in Chicago, this book delves into all major specialties, the application basics, and even how personality might play a role. For 95% or more of all US medical students this is something they SHOULD peruse through if they have the slightest hesitation about what specialty to choose. However, my minor critiques are for the small margins the book glosses over. The author mentions how the possibilities are nearly endless with an medical degree, but it leaves it at that. A few examples of a MD/JD lawyer or MD/MBA executive would help. Also some of the very small niche residencies are completely omitted (e.g. prevmed and occhealth). Also, despite the OB/GYN chapter being written by a Navy physician, he completely forgot to mention the possibilities the military can present. [He mentions the public health service but not the military?] Hopefully these holes can be filled in for the next edition. | ||
Yep, it is THE ultimate guide Actually, as its name implies.. This book is the ultimate guide in the process of choosing a specialty. Other books that come after it are anita tylor's "how choose a medical specialty", which is more to the point but gives little detail about each specialty. After is "So You Want to Be a Brain Surgeon" which has much less in each specialty than the previous two. | ||
Great book for students starting med school This book was really helpful in giving me the general insights into different specialities that I ought to keep in mind as I enter med school. Moreover, the book is excellent in preparing you for what you have to do to be a competitive applicant for residency. | ||