Medical School Resources

Websites to explore:

• American Medical Student Association(AMSA)
• Association of American Medical Colleges
• AspiringDocs
• The Student Doctor Network 
• MDApplicants.com 
• Texas Medical Student Doctors Network
• The MDPhD...is it right for me?
• The California Wellness Foundation
• National Health Service Corps
• 31 Questions I Wish I Had Asked During My Medical School Interview 
• sheMD
• TEDMED 
• Radio Rounds
• The MCAT collection of test prep video tutorials - Kahn Academy
• What's on the MCAT?

Journals to read:

JAMA 
The Lancet
New England Journal of Medicine
Annals of Internal Medicine
Academic Medicine
 

Recommended books:

The House of God (a medical school classic!) - Samuel Shem
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Anne Fadiman
Anatomy of an Illness - Norman Cousins
How Doctors Think - Jerome Groopman
Being Mortal and What Happens in the End - Atul Gawande
Better - Atul Gawande
Mountains Beyond Mountains - Tracy Kidder
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe - Katrina Firlik
The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese, MD
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers  - Mary Roach
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales - Oliver Sacks, MD

Scholarships for students interested in the health professions: 

• Auxiliary to the National Medical Association
• Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc.
• Jackie Robinson Foundation
• Thurgood Marshall College Fund
• National Association of Black Nurses
• American Indian College Fund
• Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund
• Hispanic Scholarship Fund
• National Hispanic Health Foundation
• National Medical Fellowships, Inc.