Med School Confidential from Robert H. Miller and Daniel M. Bissell uses the same chronological format and mentor-based system that have made Law School Confidential and Business School Confidential such treasured and popular guides. It takes the reader step-by-step through the entire med school process--from thinking about, applying to, and choosing a medical school and program, through the four-year curriculum, internships, residencies, and fellowships, to choosing a specialty and finding the perfect job. With a foreword by Chair of the Admissions Committee at Dartmouth Medical School Harold M. Friedman, M.D., Med School Confidential provides what no other book currently does: a comprehensive, chronological account of the full medical school experience.

Robert H. Miller graduated from Yale University in 1993 and from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was senior editor of the Law Review, in 1998. He is presently a trial lawyer at Sheehan, Phinney, Bass & Green in Manchester, New Hampshire, where he specializes in intellectual-property and commercial litigation. He is the author of the critically acclaimed grad school preparatory books Law School Confidential, Business School Confidential, and the hot new college preparatory book Campus Confidential. Dan Bissell, M.D., graduated cum laude from Middlebury College in 1993 and from the University of Colorado School of Medicine as an Adler Scholar in 2002. He recently completed his residency in emergency medicine at the Maine Medical Center. During residency, he received the Gold Foundation Award as Resident Teacher of the Year and was appointed chief resident of the emergency medicine program. He is now in practice in Portland, Oregon.

PART I: SO YOU WANNA BE A DOCTOR...
1. Thinking About Med School? Think Again...
2. A Road Map of the Med-School Education Process
3. Surviving Premed
4. Beating the MCAT

PART II: APPLYING TO MEDICAL SCHOOL
5. Crafting the Perfect Application
6. Choosing Your School
7. Finalizing Your AMCAS Application and Completing Your Secondaries
8. How to Ace Your Med-School Interviews
9. Handling Acceptance, Rejection, and Everything in Between

PART III: THE PRECLINICAL YEARS
10. The Five Things to Do Before Classes Begin
11. Funding Your Med-School Education
12. Getting Off to the Right Start in the Preclinical Years
13. The First Year: Normal Systems
14. The Second Year: Disease and Medicine
15. Bringing It All Together: The USMLE Step 1 Exam

PART IV: THE CLINICAL YEARS
16. Life on the Wards
17. Problems in the Wards - and How to Deal With Them
18. Core Clinical Rotations
19. Bringing It All Together Again: The USMLE Step 2 Exam
20. Elective Rotations

PART V: APPLYING FOR RESIDENCY AND SURVIVING THE MATCH
21. Thinking About Residency
22. Applying All Over Again
23. Selecting Your Programs
24. Residency Interviews
25. The Match
26. Finishing Up

PART VI: THE TRANSITION TO RESIDENCY AND LIFE AS A PHYSICIAN
27. Making the Leap
28. Starting Out Strong in Residency

PART VII: ADVICE FOR THE SPOUSES, PARTNERS, SIGNIFICANT OTHERS, AND FAMILIES OF MED STUDENTS
29. The Realities of Life with a Doc-in-Training and Strategies for Making It Livable (by Kimberly Bissell)

APPENDIX
Fundamental References
Test Prep
Premed Curriculum and Med-School Applications
Clinical References
Finances
Residency and the Match
Resources for Family, Friends, and Supporters