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9780071410526

The Ultimate Guide To Choosing a Medical Specialty

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    9780071410526

  • ISBN10:

    007141052X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-12-19
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical
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Summary

The first medical specialty selection guide written by residents for students! Provides an inside look at the issues surrounding medical specialty selection, blending first-hand knowledge with useful facts and statistics, such as salary information, employment data, and match statistics. Focuses on all the major specialties and features firsthand portrayals of each by current residents. Also includes a guide to personality characteristics that are predominate with practitioners of each specialty. '¬SA terrific mixture of objective information as well as factual data make this book an easy, informative, and interesting read.'¬ --Review from a 4th year Medical Student

Table of Contents

Part I: Planning Your Medical Career

Chapter 1. Choosing a Specialty: The Most Difficult Decision of Your Career

Chapter 2. The Specialization of Medicine

Chapter 3. Ten Factors to Consider in Specialty Selection

Chapter 4. Personality Assessment: Are You My Type?

Chapter 5. Finding the Perfect Specialty: An A to Z Guide

Chapter 6. Special Considerations for Women

Chapter 7. Combined Residency Programs

Chapter 8. Options for the Undecided Medical Student

Chapter 9. Applying for Residency: An Overview of the Match Process

Chapter 10. Love and Medicine: The Couples Match

Chapter 11. Top Secret! The A to Z Guide to a Successful Match

Chapter 12. Your Medical Career Beyond Residency

Part II: Specialty Profiles: From Anesthesiology to Urology

Chapter 13. Anesthesiology

Chapter 14. Dermatology

Chapter 15. Emergency Medicine

Chapter 16. Family Practice

Chapter 17. General Surgery

Chapter 18. Internal Medicine

Chapter 19. Neurology

Chapter 20. Neurosurgery

Chapter 21. Obstetrics and Gynecology

Chapter 22. Ophthalmology

Chapter 23. Orthopaedic Surgery

Chapter 24. Otolaryngology

Chapter 25. Pathology

Chapter 26. Pediatrics

Chapter 27. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Chapter 28. Plastic Surgery

Chapter 29. Psychiatry

Chapter 30. Radiation Oncology

Chapter 31. Radiology

Chapter 32. Urology

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