How to Be Pre-Med - A Harvard MD's Medical School Preparation Guide for Students and Parents

How To Be Pre-Med assists high school, college, and non-traditional students interested in becoming physicians by describing the pre-med route from start to finish using the Six Buckets model Dr. Miller developed through over a decade of medical school admissions

advising. This guide is equally helpful to those hoping to pursue a medical career and to loved ones, such as parents, spouses, relatives, and friends, supporting a pre-med.

Dr. Miller created How to be Pre-Med to serve as a prequel to the best-selling The Medical School Admissions Guide: A Harvard MD's Week-by-Week Admissions Handbook because readers frequently provided feedback wishing they had received similar expert guidance sooner in the pre-med process.

How To Be Pre-Med covers all information required to excel as a pre-med and prepare for the medical school application process. I suggest you read this book as soon as you decide to pursue the pre-med path to help strategize selection of undergraduate or post-baccalaureate experiences. Then return to it each year to assess how you are filling up the Six Buckets.

Once you have decided to apply to medical school, pick up the latest edition of The Medical School Admissions Guide and follow the weekly steps required to create the best application possible to maximize your chances of admission.

Dr. Miller's Experience

- Harvard MD

- Harvard Pre-Med Tutor

- Stanford Emergency Medicine Residency Graduate

- Admissions Interviewer

- George Washington University Faculty

- Virginia Commonwealth University Faculty

- Practicing Emergency Physician

- CEO of MDadmit: Medical School Admissions Consulting (MDadmit.com)

- Creator of MDadmit Medical School Admissions Bootcamps

- Appearances on NPR, CNN, ABC, and ESPN

Paperback: 226 pages

Publisher: MDadmit (February 11, 2013)

Language: English

Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches

Shipping Weight: 12 ounces

Reviews

"Dr. Miller's approach to getting into med school was simple and straight forward. She made the whole process very understandable with diagrams, charts, and concepts. Although I have a way to go until I apply, Dr. Miller put my mind at ease and gave me hope."

- Mhorner

"It is rare when an expert will write a book that outlines a clear roadmap to success in any field, but Dr. Suzanne Miller has done just that in "How to Be Pre-Med." Dr. Miller studied at Harvard College, and was admitted to Harvard Medical School. Part of her experience at Harvard Medical School consisted in helping Harvard undergraduates with the medical school admissions process. She is clearly an expert, and has used her considerable expertise to start a business helping students gain admission to medical schools nationwide, and to write this excellent book. This book is highly recommended guide for teachers, guidance counselors, parents, prospective pre-meds to get a feel for this arduous process before they get deeply invested in classes (and money), and for those who are sure from the start they want to be physicians.

I thought Suzanne Miller's book was not only very helpful, but also interesting. The method she has developed (the "Six Buckets" method) definitely sets out a clear path to being accepted to medical school. The Six Buckets are Academics, Research, Community Service, Extracurriculars, Clinical Experience, and Application Skills. Dr. Miller sets out specific guidelines that should be followed for each Bucket, even giving examples of activities that could fall under each category and suggesting ways to get involved in each category. Each chapter busts certain myths about the pre-med process and application, such as different ideas about GPA and clinical experience.

Beyond helping with the smaller details, Dr. Miller goes through her ideas about what your application and profile should look like overall. She gives lists and statistics of US medical schools which can help you to decide where to apply or help motivate you to get into a certain school. Most importantly, she gives profiles of several students that she helped to get into medical school, including herself. These profiles are extremely helpful because they present a "case study" of what it takes to be a strong pre-med candidate.

Dr. Miller came to give a talk to a group of students at my high school. I'd already read this book and found it very helpful, and she was just as helpful in person. She mentioned that she's been able to get almost all of the people that she's personally worked with into medical school, and I think as long as you follow the instructions, you should be a shoo-in for med school."

- T. Griffin

"My grandson is headed to college and intends to go on to medical school following a pre-med undergraduate program. This book is a great guide book for anyone intending to pursue a medical career. The author clearly lays out all the steps to follow and best of all addresses the myths and misconceptions about this career track."

- Michael J. Jarvis

About the Author

Dr. Suzanne M. Miller was raised near Washington, DC and studied history and science at Harvard College. While attending Harvard Medical School, she began admissions consulting as a Harvard pre-medical tutor and then co-chair of the Eliot House Pre-Medical Committee. After receiving her MD, she trained at Stanford University in emergency medicine.

Dr. Miller continues to work as an emergency physician and professor both nationally and internationally while running MDadmit, a medical admissions consulting service. She is also proud to lead the successful MDadmit Admissions Bootcamps. Dr. Miller enjoys teaching, traveling internationally, and serving as a physician for Racing the Planet adventure races, activities that have allowed her to make footprints on seven continents.