TUCSON, Ariz.--(COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--May 12, 2004--Today`s premeds face daunting challenges: a highly competitive selection process, complex application forms, daunting interviews, and escalating medical school costs. To succeed, they need information from an insider willing to wrestle the medical school application monster to the ground.
To help guide premeds through this complicated and often confusing system, Kenneth V. Iserson, M.D., author of the bestselling ''Getting Into A Residency: A Guide for Medical Students, 6th ed.'', has written ''Get Into Medical School! A Guide for the Perplexed, 2nd ed.'' ''I hope that this book helps students to achieve their goals -- no matter what they may be,'' stated Dr. Iserson. ''The book starts by asking the question: `Is a medical career what you really want?` It then discusses both the positives and negatives. The hope is that this will help produce a generation of physicians who really know what they want and are happy practicing medicine.''
The book`s 500-plus pages are filled with hard-to-find information from all U.S. and Canadian M.D.- and D.O.-granting medical schools. It also features the unique ''Must/Want'' Analysis, which helps students rank medical schools according to their individual needs. ''Premed students should realize that they have a wide range of options, including Osteopathic and foreign medical schools,'' says Iserson. ''There are also increasing numbers of unconventional (older, minority, physically challenged) applicants who face special trials and advantages.''
Iserson, who has mentored thousands of medical school students, recommends that premeds: (a) Be sure they want to enter medicine; (b) Know how to jump through the hoops without going crazy; (c) Make informed choices; (d) Prepare for those crucial interviews; and (e) Know the best method to pay $100,000 (or more!) for a medical education. ''Get Into Medical School!'' provides the in-depth answers premeds need�and web addresses for additional information.
To assist premeds, the book`s website (www.galenpress.com/012a.html) contains FREE ''Tips on Resume Writing,'' ''Facts about a Medical Career,'' and ''The Premed Checklist.''
Said a medical school dean of admissions after reviewing the first edition of ''Get Into Medical School!'', ''This is one of the best books I have read in twenty-nine years of medical student admissions work.''
''Get Into Medical School! A Guide for the Perplexed, Second edition''
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