VERY helpful for MMI and current medical students
345536
I highly recommend this book to anyone trying to prepare for the Multiple Mini Interview and even current medical students and practicing professionals. Dr. Desai breaks down the MMI into its components and lays out an approach that can be used for any MMI scenario - or real-life difficult patient interaction. He also discusses important ethical issues in medicine. I just had an MMI and I can say that this book was IMMENSELY helpful!
2555836
This is definitely a great book for any high school/college student interested in going to medical school.  The author gives great insight on his experiences in medical school.  Most people typically hear about the hours and hours of studying in medical school so it gives a stereotype of how medical school is but this book breaks that stereotype.  There is more to medical school than just books.  I would definitely would recommend this book to anyone interested in medicine.
1777444
This book is the perfect tool for anyone entering medical school or currently attending. This book is very detailed. I always ask medical students how to balance school and social life and get basic answers, but not real genuine advice. This book has more genuine advice on common fears than I imagined. I love that Dr. Cole is a very relatable and personable writer. This book is giving me confidence that I can breeze through medical school if I keep the right mindset.
3814547
I was thrilled to receive this book because I was collecting information in MS Word and compiling the data. I like this book because it also came with an access code to the online version. The first five chapters prior to the State and Private Medical schools had helpful information about how to get in to medical school, how to do well on the MCAT, and other tips that I generally found on StudentDoctor. Net forums. I was able to get the facts for each school quickly and I appreciated that. Excellent book!
3926509
A refreshing take on getting into medical school. Getting into medical school is a daunting task, but this author lays out easy tips and tricks that are practical and useful. Also, includes other great health and life advice. This was an easy read; the author doesn't try to confuse with any fancy lingo. I consider this a must read!
2593605
I purchased this to review for my 4th year med school rotation in Infectious Disease and to prepare for my upcomming residency in Internal Medicine.  I have read about 3/4 of the book so far and have found it very valuable- relevant, thorough for a general internist, well written and organized.  Very clinically oriented.
2505442
Excellent resource for students and resident (I am a resident and used it to organize my thoughts and notes and helped med students do the same).
1826677
I read this review book prior to entering medical school or having a microbiology class. I wanted to find a text that can help prepare me for this area.  Although I found some of the drawings a bit juvenile, I thought the book was very useful and I appreciated the charts at the end of the chapters.

After taking microbiology in medical school, I believe that this is an excellent read and a must have for all students who want to excel.  It should be used in conjunction with Micro Recall (for putting those pesky details to memory).
3032271
As a medical student in pharmacology, I found them to be great supplemental material to learn the names, actions, and side effects of the drugs. Easy to quiz yourself with them. They are organized/grouped similar to Katzung Pharmacology (Lange) and provide an overview of the drug categories and mechanisms at the beginning of each group - great for when you need a quick reference. Not all of the drugs are included, but they provide an excellent starting point. The pictures are simple, yet clever, so for picture-oriented people, they work great. The phrases to remember the drugs are okay, often harder to remember the phrase than the drug itself. It got me rolling though, and I often came up with better ones on my own. Most importantly, they taught me a different way to learn drug names, so even when I'm not using the cards, I utilize the memory concepts. Although I have not been through them all, I have not found any mistakes, only a few contradictions due to discrepancies in the literature. I found the table of contents to also be a big help when trying to track down a specific drug.
1446754
As someone who is currently in the midst of the medical school admissions process, I cannot thank Dr. Miller enough for the incredible help her book, The Medical School Admissions Guide has provided.

Applying to medical school is truly a daunting process.  Even for knowledgeable, organized students, making sense of all the advice and information being given by those around you can be quite overwhelming. Dr. Millers concise, step-by-step guide has been just what I needed to stay focused on individual tasks, timing and deadlines. The week-by-week format just made everything seem so much more manageable. Its clear that her background and experience in medical school admissions enables her to provide on target suggestions, particularly as they relate to essay topics and personal statement composition. Thinking through answers to possible secondary application questions ahead of time enabled me to return the secondaries in a very timely manner.

I highly recommend this book to anyone applying to medical school 
It is truly a lifesaver!
4968957
This comes as two books - the "Text" and a workbook, which follows along with the text but gives practice at prescribing without having to flip between lots of pages. This particular book is focused on hospital based prescribing, ideal for an MD on call kind of situation.
There's a section for acute care, which is ER type situations, such as a patient with left lower quadrant pain, diagnosed with likely perforated diverticulitis, and in need of pain management. The second section is in house in the hospital, which includes things like anticoagulation issues or new onset of sepsis in an already admitted patient. The final section goes through more routine inpatient things, like reviewing medications before discharge.

The text portion first presents the scenarios, with the workbook having the space for writing out what you would prescribe. Once you're through each grouping of scenarios, the explanations are in the main text, which go into great detail on the why's of everything, along with the answers for how your written out drug charts should look. This book covers a very wide range of situations, and is a wonderful resource and refresher tool for any physician who has to prescribe things in new to them patients in a hospital setting. In the beginning of the book is also a great reference list of abbreviations, and an appendix that goes very briefly over antibiotic guidelines, as well as a summary of the case studies.

Overall, this is a wonderful tool, and certainly a great way for seasoned physicians to test their skills while also being an incredibly valuable source for residents. This also comes at a great price, and I especially like that the workbook is separate, making it easy to see the details of each case while also formulating your answers.
1604111
As a medical student in my last few months of school, I was a bit wary of this book at first because I thought its title "When Doctors Don't Listen" might pit patients against their doctors. But in fact, this book is a wonderfully written, very engaging guide that teaches people how to advocate for themselves and their families in a way in which they become partners and active participants (rather than just recipients) in their medical care. This sort of patient participation, self-advocacy, and partnership  could make a patient's experience much better -- indeed, it really could help avoid misdiagnosis and unnecessary tests! And it would make the doctor's job more satisfying as well.

The book goes through a variety of topics, including: how modern medicine is practiced (and how we got there), who the different people you see when you are hospitalized are (and why there may be so many people that rotate through your hospital room!), how to tell your story to your doctor in a way that conveys the relevant information that could help get to a diagnosis, how to ask questions in a way that helps doctors think through your story more thoroughly, among other things. I don't know of any other book that explains these topics, which could be dull or depressing, in such a fun and approachable way.

The topics covered in this book are not only valuable to patients; they are also pertinent for people who are trained in medicine, as well, because (1) they help reframe the way we think about generating our diagnoses and (2) it is always helpful to re-teach and remind ourselves what it is like to be a patient so that we can be effective and empathetic partners in their medical care. Plus, there are some great "patient history" worksheets in the end that I kind of want to keep and work through with my future patients so we can figure out their diagnoses together.

This book fills a gap in the communication between even the best-intentioned doctors and their patients, and I think, a worthwhile read.
2282515
This book should be handed out by every undergraduate career counselor who interacts with pre-meds or those considering pre med. It should then be handed out at med school orientation and on the first day of residency. I stumbled onto Dr. Dahle's site late in my intern year of my pediatrics residency. Swimming in med school debt and having chosen a "lower paying" specialty, it clicked one day that I had to figure out my financial life. Using Dr. Dahle's blog as a springboard, I made my way through several novice personal finance and investing books. This book is a wonderful summation of introductory information for anyone early in their medical career, no matter whether they have $0 or $400,000 in med school loans. I have a long way to go in both my medical and financial life, but I now have a plan to get me where I want to be. I recommended this book to all my resident colleagues when our discussions turned to our financial lives
3518007
Quickly becoming my first medical reference.  Also great reference for teaching medical students.
1716166
As a residency program director, I have found this book to be one of my most useful medical education references. Remediation was not an issue addressed in my faculty development fellowship, and it is the most challenging issue that I have faced as a program director. I have found this book to be very helpful in helping to both "diagnose" and develop a remediation plan for a struggling resident. Although many of the chapters seem to focus on medical student issues, the relevance to residency education is very good. I think any medical educator, particularly one responsible for learner evaluation and promotion decisions, needs to have this book.
2761893
This little booklet is great. Have used it very often during 3rd year. Would recommend to all med students starting their clerkships
3016319
This book was more than helpful for Step 2.  In particular, it helped me polish up on dermatology, ophthalmology, neurology, and radiology - subjects not well covered in the other review books I used, and subjects which had an appreciable presence on USMLE Step 2.  It also helped me review OB/GYN at the last minute.  Look out for errors, though - others in my class found flaws in the medicine section, for example.  Otherwise I'd give it 5 stars.  Worth the price for all the high-yield information packed in this little green book.