Question by Burt Bacharach: As a Pre-Med Student, what should I be studying for fun over the summer?
Are there some sort of medical books about diagnosing stories, or websites, that I could look at? Should I be studying only for my chemistry next semester? I feel pretty confident.

What I’m really worried about is that there is so much medical mumbo-jumbo I don’t get; when I job shadow at the hospital I am assaulted with words I don’t understand. Is there a good way I can get a grasp for this?

Best answer:

Answer by alien3starr
You could ask the doctors that you job shadow for books and advice. Don’t worry about the vocabulary though. You will learn it when you go to med school. There’s no rush. I would suggest studying biology.

Answer by kcal
Don’t be afraid to dive in. They don’t expect you to know everything (or anything) yet! I would say don’t go the “traditional” route. Read books about specific topics that you find interesting. You will absorb a lot more information that way and it will help you out in the long run because you can think on a broader level than your peers will be able to.

I’m not pre-med, I’m soc but I have taken Medical Sociology and a few public health classes. Here are some cool books I’ve read for classes:

“Dangerous Doses: How Counterfeoters are Contaminating America’s Drug Supply” -Katherine Eban

“Buzzed: The Straight Facts about the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alchol to Ecstasy” – Dr. Cynthia Kuhn, Dr. Scott Swartzwelder, Dr. Wilkie Wilson of the Duke Unversity Medical Center

“Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers” – Mary Roach

“Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS” – Peter Baldwin

“When Germs Travel: Six Master Epidemics that have invaded American and they fears They have Unleashed” – Howard Markel

“Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the search for the Virus that Caused it” – Gina Kolata

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