Ebook The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Medical Specialty Fourth Edition Lange Medical Book 9781260019506 Medicine Health Science Books

Product details Series Lange Medical Book Paperback 544 pages Publisher McGraw-Hill Education / Medical; 4 edition (December 12, 2018) Language English ISBN-10 1260019500

The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Medical Specialty Fourth Edition Lange Medical Book 9781260019506 Medicine Health Science Books Reviews

• I would recommend this book to the undecided medical students in their 3rd year- I bought this early in my 4th year after having read Anita's book on Choosing a Medical Specialty, and still being uncertain. I was trying to talk myself out of Gen Surg... Ultimately, a book is not going to make the decision for you, but it is good to be informed and it helps to either reinforce what your gut instinct is telling you. Try to borrow a friends or buy a used copy- but it's definitely worth a read!
• I owe the writer of this book of making up my mind of what I want to do after graduating medical school.
  
  The first few chapters of the book explains in detail the process of Residency application and the Match in the US. It then goes over each and every specialty in an alphabetical order written by relevant specialty doctors. Every chapter goes over the pros and cons of choosing a certain specialty and sheds some light on the social and financial aspect of it.
  
  I highly recommend it for every senior medical student who is in the process of applying to residency. Get the book, and make an informed decision that can change your life forever.
• This book is good read. Valuable info on choosing a specialty, esp for those who are lost (which are most!). Book was in perfect condition.
• This book serves as a great guide to most all medical professions. It covers all the bases. Only issue is that epidemiology and some other public health sectors were not covered. Still worth purchasing if you are considering becoming a doctor of medicine.
• Its not hard science but can be part of the process of finding your place.
• Very helpful in reviewing the different specialties in the medical field. Great for helping that medical student get an early jump on what area to consider.
• This guide is such an amazing resource. From practical information like salary and match stats to more soul searching info, this book makes a great guide for helping to decide a direction in medicine.
• It is an informative book. Students will learn a lot from reading this book. But the authors for each specialty are merely telling you the positive aspects of their specialty. Students still should seek more information about some of the issues why you may not want to choose a specific specialty. For an example, in Ob/Gyn the author for that section addresses males in the specialty as 'still having a role' in ob/gyn. True. But, in many, many metropolitan areas males ob/gyns struggle to find jobs. You'll not find information like that in this book. Pathology section doesn't mention how for the past 10 year or so the job market has really suffered. Because the duration of residency has decreased from 5 years to 4 years many residents are not equipped to function fully as an attending. Hence many employers seek out applicants with a fellowship in a subspecialty. This has created a huge demand for fellowship training which is very limited in number in comparison to the number of residents seeking fellowships. It, as I've been told, is one of the few physician specialty where you are not really guaranteed a position after residency. But the book doesn't tell you things like that. Anesthesiology section doesn't paint the real picture of the power struggle between CRNAs taking over MD anesthesiologists' jobs. Rather it more or less states how they all need to work together. In the meanwhile Colorado has just become the 16th state to allow CRNAs to practice without the supervision of an MD. So, use this book as a book that tends to advertise each specialty without informing you on issues that may cause you not to choose a certain specialty.