Barron's guide to medical & dental schools
By: Saul Wischnitzer with Edith Wischnitzer
Contributors: Wischnitzer, Edith
Edition: 12th ed.
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hauppauge, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 739
ISBN-13: 9780764141225
Subjects: Medical Schools; Osteopathic Medicine; Osteopathic medicine; Medical Education; Dentistry; Medicine; Education; Directory; Dental Schools; Dental Education; Vocational guidance
Other titles: Barron's guide to medical and dental schools; Guide to medical & dental schools; Guide to medical and dental schools
Description: Outlines the benefits of medicine and dentistry as careers, lists schools in the United States and Canada, and provides guidance through admission tests.
Notes: Previous ed.: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 730-731) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Medicine. Medicine as a career ; Preparing for college ; Preparing for medical school ; The postbaccalaureate premedical student ; Opportunities for nontraditional (older) applicants ; Applying to medical school ; The Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) ; Medical schools ; Medical school profiles ; Opportunities for women ; Opportunities for minorities ; Financing your medical education ; Medical education ; Postgraduate medical education ; Foreign medical study ; Osteopathic medicine ; Medical practice ; Physicians and medicine in the twenty-first century; title: Dentistry. Dentistry as a career ; preparing for and applying to dental school ; The Dental Admission Test (DAT) ; Opportunities in dentistry for women and minorities ; Financing your dental education ; Dental education ; Dental schools; title: Appendix A. A self-assessment admission profile; title: Appendix B. Medical school application form; title: Appendix C. Sample essays for AMCAS application; title: Appendix D. Major professional allopathic organizations; title: Appendix E. Major professional osteopathic organizations; title: Appendix F. Alternative medical terminology; title: Appendix G. Tracking tables; title: Appendix H. Regional maps; title: Appendix I. Nationwide distribution of osteopathic medical schools; title: Appendix J. Medical and dental admissions and the World Wide Web.