WHAT HEALTH PROFESSIONS SCHOOLS HAVE RECENT HAMILTON GRADUATES ENROLLED IN? --> Look here.
POST-BACCALAUREATE PROGRAMS
- Brandeis University near Boston has a program for those hopeful premeds who need to finish prerequisite coursework in the sciences. See Robin Kinnel if you are interested or think it might apply to you.
- Duquesne University's program appears to be quite different. The series of courses are tailored to the individual student and the program provides opportunities for shaowing experience and volunteer opportunities. They have a limkage program with a few medical and osteopathic schools in Pennsylvania. If you'd like to learn more, please see Robin Kinnel.
INTERESTING READING (synopses from http://www.amazon.com)
Going to the beach? Lazing at home? Need a break from studying for MCAT's? Here's some books I have found or that have been recommended to me (yes, they all deal with medicine!)
- Perri Klass, "A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student"-Surviving Harvard Medical School, Klass offers an unflinchingly honest view of this journey--from the perspective of a woman and mother in a field dominated by men and masculine sensibilities. Like Melvin Konner's Becoming a Doctor: A Not Entirely Benign Procedure, Klass's work has "wit, intelligence, and a great deal of insight" (The New York Times Book Review).
- Perri Klass "Other Women's Children"-A pediatrician accustomed to seeing children die, Dr. Amelia Stern must come to terms with the contrast between the needs of her helpless patients and her own cozy domestic situation and begins to neglect herself and her family in the interim.
- Robert Marion, "Learning to Play God: The Coming of Age of a Young Doctor"- A terrific true-medicine account by the acclaimed author of The Intern Blues--an eloquent inside view of medical education. Here is the truth of the pressure and pain novice doctors endure . . . and the price patients often pay. "Clear, immediate, and moving."--The New York Times.
- Robert Marion, "Rotations: The Twelve Months of Intern Life"-Timely and brilliantly written, this sequel to the acclaimed "The intern Blues" is an exciting look at the real-life challenges confronting young doctors as they struggle for survival and sanity within today's health-care system. Marion weaves a dramatic story that follows one year in the lives of three pediatric interns under his tutelage at New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
- Samuel Shem, "House of God" -They've come from the top of their med school class to begin the most harrowing year of their lives. Six eager interns, fashioning themselves as saviors in the world of the healing arts, are about to serve a year in the time-honored tradition of the hospital internship. Their year will be grueling--no sleep, stress, and insanity, tempered with love, humor and priceless rewards.
- Melvin Konner, "Becoming a Doctor: A Journey of Initiation in Medical School"- Dr. Konner takes readers through his third year at medical school, where he wonders why teachers instill in their students a sense of power, but no sense of concern. Controversial, insightful, well-written, and deeply moving.
- Shem's "House of God." This book inspired the movie and subsequent TV series titled, "St. Elsewhere"..