The Medical School Interview: Secrets and a System for Success

This book isn't just a list of interview questions: it's a way of thinking and approaching the whole process, and a way to get into the interviewers' heads. After realizing that I had the power to conduct my interviews better, this book was like a coach and helped me keep my cool through difficult interviewers. This book is essential to the medical school application process and really offers something unique that I couldn't find in other books (at least, med school application books available at commercial bookstores like Borders).

The author writes a column on the Studentdoctor website so if you'd like to sample the quality of his writing, I'd recommend checking his articles out there.

I would recommend this with The Princeton Review Planning a Life in Medicine for maximum impact.

This book proved to be very helpful in my preparation for the Med. School interviews. The size of it, the structure, and the language of this book make it instrumental for those who are nervous and disoriented in their last days before the interview. Very good book!

I tend to think if you worked through all the excersizes and prep in this book, you would be decidedly less apprehensive.

Basically, its written by an MD who has been part of interviewing process for a number of years, and is just really sipmlifying and demystifying the process. As such, much of the information is basic, but if you didn't think of one of the questions he mentions, you'll be glad you prepared for it. Major points include a lot of inforation that helps you get into the head of your interviewer; and a good number of questions and issues you need to sit down and really think about, and plot out basic responses to; because its clear they will come up in some form.

If you have already created a pretty comprehensive personal inventory of strengths and weaknesses you'll feel comfortable talking about, thoughts on various aspects of medicine (and your motivations and abilities within it), vocational and avocational experiences which...Read more