Study Without Stress: Mastering Medical Sciences

I've read quite a few books now to prepare myself for medical school and this one is by far the best. It gives you a good idea of how much a medical student needs to study, good advice on how to make your own schedule, and teaches you how to study. She tells the reader that studying in medical school is a whole different world than the studying done in undergrad. She shows you which techniques to use and which to leave behind in with your college books. Her stratagies make memorizing and understanding loads of information seem doable. Buy this book or learn the hard way.

This book is written by a psychologist and an educator (neither of whom "attended" medical school) and it shows; although there is a vast amount of information and advice in this book, it's often not very useful to the medical student. Reading this book reminds of fans at hockey games that have never played hockey, but still yell "SHOOT, PASS, GO LEFT.." It's very easy to give advice from the side-line, but unless you're actually doing it, it's hard to have a good idea of what it's like.

In anticipation for medical school, i've also read "how to excel in medical school", and more recently "how to study in medical school", and i can honestly say the better books are those authored by MD's (such as the latter two), hence authors that have gone through the process themselves. I feel their advice is a lot more practical and applicable.

Overall good, but if i had to choose just one book, i'd probably choose something else.

I was required to purchase this book for the Seton Hall Physician Assistant Program. I have not finished reading it yet, but so far it seems very helpful. Its a great way to learn time management. The book has exercises in it that make you analyze your day down to every 30 minutes to best utilize your time. This book should be good for anyone who needs help with managing study time even if they're not studying medicine. My boyfriend has a rigorous academic schedule at West Point and I'm going to have him read it when I'm done.