On Becoming a Doctor: Everything You Need to Know About Medical School, Residency, Specialization and Practice

Aspiring doctors have chosen a career that demands long hours on little-to-no sleep, constant continuing education to keep up with advances in research and technology, and a tough decision on which type of medicine to practice.

On Becoming a Doctor covers the educational, physical, and emotional realities of the process, including:

• Financing medical school
• The ups and downs of working with insurance companies
• Interviews with doctors in many different specialties
• Perspectives on a variety of medical fields

A unique overview of the entire process of becoming a doctor, and the first book to tackle the emotional difficulties

• The only overview of the whole process of becoming a doctor, from undergrad through practice
• Special insights from compelling and useful interviews with specialists
• A frequent reader complaint about the comps is the lack of information on the emotional difficulties of the process, which this book covers at each step