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Title: Peterson's Insider's Guide to Medical Schools: Current Students Tell You What Their Medical School Is Really Like (Insider's Guide to Medical Schools, 1st Ed) by Ivan Oransky, Eric J. Poulsen, Darshak M. Sanghavi, Jay K. Varma ISBN: 0-7689-0203-7 Publisher: Peterson's Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Get the big picture with this book...
Comment: This book excels in giving you the general flavor and background with respect to school curricula, strong and weak points, housing, entertainment, and other local info that would be difficult to find in any one source. I referred to it extensively and used it as a starting point for further research into schools I might be interested in. I have also found the descriptions to be mostly accurate, as far as the few schools I knew about in particular. Friends I knew, who were also trying to pick schools to apply to, got this book after flipping through my copy. Who exactly the student writers are, and their class standings are particularly irrelevant, as I would hope that you wouldn't base your application decision on any one source. As a general reference, and a peek into a particular school and it's local area, this book can't be beat! The few suggestions I would have would be to update this book every year or two (some of the info was slightly dated, as some schools have changed curriculum (e.g. going from traditional to organ-based, etc.)), and to standardize the descriptions a bit more if possible. Also, reading the great descriptions of schools that you're interested in, leaves you hungry for more, they could easily make this book twice as big, but then it would be a little less handy. *I haven't found any other book out there gives this broad a perspective, so I highly recommend it.*
Rating: 1
Summary: Correct the Correction
Comment: Sai Li's point was just what the "Correction" comment states: that current students did fill out the surveys. However, without any biographical information on them (sorry a list of names at the end of the book doesn't do a whole lot of good) and without knowing how those students were picked (i.e., whether they can be considered at all representative of their class and school), we are left not knowing how much weight, if any, should be given to their feedback. It appears as if the "Correction" review was simply an attempt by the author to increase the overall rating of the book by including an additional 5 star review. Pretty transparent, and I second Sai Li's recommendation to get your hands on the AAMC's MSAR book which is the only guide to medical schools officially sanctioned by the American Association of Medical Colleges.
Rating: 5
Summary: Correction
Comment: Sai Li is certainly entitled to an opinion, however negative, of our book. However, there is a glaring error of fact in Sai's review. Every review, with just a few exceptions in which we could not find medical students at particular schools (fewer than 10 out of 126 schools), is written by a current medical student or recent graduate of the particular school. Their names are in fact listed in the back of the book. I'm not sure why Sai had this misperception, but I thought it was important to correct it.
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Title: Complete Book of Medical Schools: 2004 Edition (Princeton Review) by Malaika Stoll ISBN: 0375763481 Publisher: Princeton Review Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Complete Medical School Preparation and Admissions Guide by Andrew Goliszek Ph.D. ISBN: 0961647566 Publisher: Healthnet Pr Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Insider's Guide to Medical School Admissions (Insider's Guide to Medical School Admissions) by Rolando Stephen Toyos ISBN: 1564142728 Publisher: Career Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Becoming a Physician : A Practical and Creative Guide to Planning a Career in Medicine by Jennifer Danek, Marita Danek ISBN: 0471121665 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Complete Guide to Foreign Medical Schools: In Plain English (Student Friendly Book) by Nilanjan Sen ISBN: 1890838004 Publisher: Indus Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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