Summary: Episode 11: From MCAT to licensing - Overview of the entire medical education process. MCAT, First Year of Medical School, USMLE - and beyond... ==================================================== Announcements: Happy New Year! It's now been 9 months of podcasting and we have over 21,178 downloads. I'm very encouraged by your emails and support. In that short amount of time, hundreds of your questions have been answered and organized into a mindmap. With your help we put together a comprehensive, individualized PreMed coaching program. Visit www.PremedicalUniversity.com for more information. The PreMed CD of the month club now has a link on the right of MedicalMastery. There is room for 11 more people right now. First come, first serve. That link will only be available intermittently when seats are available. Live Teleclinics now available. Sign up for the free PreMed eBook on MedicalMastery.com and you'll also get email notification of upcoming teleclinics. Submit topics in the online survey "Grill the Guru". The Ebooks is 16 chapters emailed to you weekly with other, exclusive PreMed strategies and insider advice also. In total, you'll get over 3 months of PreMed email content that you can save, store, and search in your email service for years to come! DON'T DELETE the emails. ==================================================== Podcast topic The first teleclinic we did had a nice video slide that covered all the steps in the medical education process. The new website that will host the free teleclinics. After you've mapped out when you'll be finished with college and all of the prerequisites for medical school, the next available August would be your first potential entering month and year. Plan to take the Medical College Admissions Test the year before. You can successfully back-schedule from this date all of the necessary preparations so that you have time to do everything you need. The first year of medical school is perhaps the hardest of all. You will be forced to adopt different learning styles for different types of information on the fly. The focus is on how the body works normally. FIRST YEAR CLASSES: Biochemistry Cell development and tissue biology Community health Epidemiology / biostatistics Family medicine Gross anatomy Growth and development Health care policy Hematology Histology History of medicine Immunology Interviewing Introduction to clinical skills Medical ethics Molecular biology Physiology Preclinical electives Problem-based learning The second year is when you learn what goes wrong with human physiology. SECOND YEAR CLASSES: Addiction medicine General pathology Infectious disease Introduction to clinical medicine Microbiology Psychopathology Psychiatry Nutrition Neuroscience Pathophysiology Pharmacology Preclinical electives Problem-based learning Systemic pathology At the end of the second year, you take the United States Medical Licensing Exam, Step 1. This is the weightiest of the 4 USMLE exams as it affects which residency specialty you get into. The third year starts 2 years of clinical rotations. Often one month long, you spend time doing many of the specialties. THIRD YEAR ROTATIONS: Surgery Internal medicine Pediatrics Obstetrics and gynecology Psychiatry Primary Care The USMLE Step 2 Clinical Knowledge is taken before the end of medical school, as well as Step 3 Clinical Skills. The former is a computerized exam, the latter is an in-person, all day patient care simulation. The fourth year is the most relaxed of all. By this time, you already have the letters of recommendations you need for residency application and the 4th year elective grades don't matter as much as the USMLE Step 1 and basic science years' grades. Application for residency begins this year so some people have trouble choosing a specialty at this point because there isn't much time between 3rd year and ap
