Guide to Medical and Dental Schools with CDROM

by Saul Wischnitzer; Edith Wischnitzer

• ISBN13: 9780764108082
• ISBN10: 0764108085
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series

Summary

The newly updated edition of this complete career guidance manual and school directory presents profiles of all accredited medical, dental, and osteopathic schools in the United States and Canada. School descriptions and accompanying charts cite admission requirements, course requirements, selection criteria, application filing deadlines, tuition and fees, average class size, percentage of men and women students, and much more. Advice on getting through the admission process includes approximately 100 typical interview questions, sample admission essays, and information on coping with the lengthy admission forms typically required by medical and dental schools. Additional features include a model Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) and an extensive sampling of questions from recent Dental College Admission Tests (DAT). Answers and explanations are given for all questions so that candidates can score their own results, analyze personal strengths and weaknesses, and focus future study efforts. This manual also offers comprehensive advice on succeeding in school

Author Biography

Dr. Saul Wischnitzer is a nationally recognized authority on career guidance for the health professions. He has extensive experience as a college advisor and is currently a private medical careers consultant. Dr. Wischnitzer's unique program has helped hundreds of applicants gain admission to U.S. medical and dental schools

Table of Contents

List of Tables	viii
List of Sample Documents	viii
Acknowledgments and Dedication	ix
Preface	x
Abbreviations	xii
Part 1 MEDICINE	1	(454)
Medicine as a Career	3	(7)
On being a physician	3	(1)
Why study medicine?	3	(1)
Historical overview	4	(1)
The need for physicians	5	(1)
Physician surplus: current debate	6	(1)
Desirable attributes for a medical career	7	(2)
The challenge to becoming a physician	9	(1)
Preparing for Medical School	10	(41)
High school	10	(1)
College	11	(26)
Postbaccalaureate programs	37	(6)
Humanistic aspects of premedical education	43	(8)
Applying to Medical School	51	(38)
General considerations	51	(3)
Selection factors	54	(6)
The application process	60	(4)
Recommendations	64	(3)
The interview	67	(6)
The selection process	73	(1)
Acceptance	74	(3)
Ranking of medical schools	77	(1)
Rejection	77	(5)
Special educational programs	82	(4)
Canadian medical schools	86	(1)
The admission process: timetable	87	(2)
The Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)	89	(77)
Overview of the MCAT	89	(1)
Importance of the MCAT	90	(1)
Contents of the MCAT	90	(4)
Preparing for the MCAT	94	(5)
Reference data for model test	99	(7)
Model MCAT	106	(58)
Hugo R. Seibel
Kenneth E. Guyer
Scoring of the MCAT	164	(1)
Scoring your model MCAT performance	164	(2)
Medical Schools	166	(24)
Basic data on medical schools	166	(24)
Medical School Profiles	190	(149)
In-depth medical school profiles	190	(149)
Opportunities for Women	339	(9)
Historical overview	339	(1)
Women's health issues	340	(1)
Medicine: a career for women	341	(1)
Doors are open	342	(1)
Admission to medical school	342	(1)
The woman physician: a status report	342	(4)
Unique challenges for women in medicine	346	(1)
Financial aid and support sources	347	(1)
Opportunities for Minorities	348	(12)
Minorities in medicine: historical perspective	348	(1)
Doors are opening for minorities	348	(1)
Admission of minorities: a status report	349	(3)
Current challenges	352	(1)
Financial aid for minority students	353	(1)
Summer programs	354	(6)
Financing Your Medical Education	360	(6)
The current financial aid crisis	361	(1)
Successfully managing educational indebtedness	362	(1)
Scholarships and loans	363	(3)
Medical Education	366	(18)
The traditional program	366	(3)
The curriculum in transition	369	(2)
Evolving new curricula	371	(3)
Attrition in medical school	374	(1)
Preparing for medical school	375	(7)
The making of a physician	382	(1)
United States medical licensing examination	382	(2)
Postgraduate Medical Education	384	(13)
Incorporating the residency and internship	384	(1)
Resident matching program	385	(1)
Residency training	386	(4)
Fellowship training	390	(2)
Improving postgraduate training	392	(1)
Challenges in training	392	(1)
New trends in medical specialties	393	(3)
Physician employment opportunities	396	(1)
Foreign Medical Study	397	(12)
Admission	397	(1)
Transfer to U.S. schools	398	(1)
Internship and residency	398	(1)
Fifth pathway opportunities	399	(1)
Requirements for residency and/or practice	400	(1)
Selecting a foreign medical school	401	(1)
Foreign medical schools	402	(7)
Osteopathic Medicine	409	(24)
Basic philosophy	409	(1)
Educational data	410	(1)
Admission prospects	411	(1)
Internship, residency, and practice	411	(1)
Relationship between osteopathic and allopathic medicine	411	(1)
Financial assistance	412	(1)
The osteopathic scene in a nutshell	412	(1)
Osteopathic medical school profiles	412	(21)
Medical Practice	433	(13)
Physician-patient relationship	433	(2)
Clinical skills	435	(1)
Diagnosing disease	436	(1)
Patient care	437	(1)
Assessing treatment	437	(1)
Accountability	438	(1)
Guidelines to practicing medicine	438	(1)
Teaching and research	438	(1)
Types of practices	439	(4)
Professional hazards	443	(1)
Physician remuneration	444	(2)
Physicians and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century	446	(9)
The challenge	446	(2)
Premedical education	448	(1)
Admission to medical school	448	(1)
Medical school education	449	(1)
Medical students	449	(1)
Medical practice	450	(1)
Specialists versus primary care physicians	451	(1)
Medical litigation crisis	452	(1)
Cybermedicine	452	(1)
Medical informatics	453	(2)
Part 2 DENTISTRY	455	(113)
Dentistry as a Career	457	(5)
Why study dentistry?	457	(1)
The need for dentists	457	(1)
Today's trends in dentistry	458	(1)
Dental specialties	459	(1)
Is dentistry for you?	460	(1)
Dentistry as an alternative to medicine	461	(1)
Preparing for and Applying to Dental School	462	(7)
Educational preparation	462	(1)
Application procedures	462	(2)
Admissions criteria	464	(5)
The Dental Admission Test (DAT)	469	(11)
Importance of the DAT	469	(1)
Contents of the DAT	470	(1)
Preparing for the DAT	471	(1)
Sample DAT questions	472	(7)
Scoring of the DAT	479	(1)
Canadian DAT	479	(1)
Opportunities in Dentistry for Women and Minorities	480	(4)
Doors are opening for women	480	(1)
Minorities in dentistry	481	(3)
Financing Your Dental Education	484	(3)
The current financial aid crisis	484	(1)
Scholarships and loans	484	(3)
Dental Education	487	(5)
Dental curriculum	487	(3)
Other educational programs	490	(1)
Postgraduate training	491	(1)
Dental Schools	492	(76)
The dental scene in a nutshell	492	(12)
In-depth dental school profiles	504	(64)
APPENDIX A A Self-assessment Admission Profile	568	(3)
APPENDIX B Medical School Application Forms	571	(11)
Sample Application from a non-AMCAS School	572	(4)
AACOMAS Application Form	576	(6)
APPENDIX C Sample Essays for AMCAS Application	582	(11)
APPENDIX D Major Professional Organizations	593	(5)
APPENDIX E Alternative Medical Terminology	598	(2)
APPENDIX F Tracking Tables	600	(11)
APPENDIX G Regional Maps	611	(4)
APPENDIX H Medical and Dental Admissions and the World Wide Web	615	(2)
BIBLIOGRAPHY	617	(2)
INDEXES
Medical School Profiles	619	(3)
Osteopathic School Profiles	622	(1)
Dental School Profiles	622	(2)
Subject	624