Health Professions Advising

We have an ever-growing library at HPA, including many books about healthcare and the medical field, periodicals relevant to medicine, some catalogs from medical schools, literature about post-bac programs, health-related movies on DVD, and much more.  Below is a list of the book, journal, and video resources available.  Books and videos can be checked out for two weeks with the option to renew.

• Arrowsmith
  Sinclair Lewis
• The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review
  Danielle Ofri and the Bellevue Literary Review
• Bleak House
  Charles Dickens, Edited by George Ford and Sylvère Monod
• Cutting for Stone
  Abraham Verghese
• The House of God: The Classic Novel of Life and Death in an American Hospital
  Samuel Shem (Introduction by John Updike)
• A Life In Medicine: A Literary Anthology
  Edited by Robert Coles, M.D. and Randy Testa
• Middlemarch
  George Eliot
• On Doctoring, Stories, Poems, Essays
  Richard Reynolds, M.D. & John Stone, M.D.
• Oxygen
  Carol Cassella

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• 100 Questions & Answers About Infertility
  John D. Gordon '85, M.D. and Michael DiMattina, M.D.
• Advancing Healthy Populations: The Pfizer Guide to Careers in Public Health
  Edited by Barbara A. DeBuono, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Group
• African-American Medical Pioneers
  Charles H. Epps, Jr., M.D., Davis G. Johnson, Ph.D., and Audrey L. Vaughan, M.S., Betz
• A Mindful Life (donated by Jeffrey Chen '13)
  Vivekanand Palavali, M.D.
• The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
  Jerome Groopman, M.D.
• Baby ER: The Heroic Doctors and Nurses Who Perform Medicine's Tiniest Miracles
  Edward Humes
• Becoming a Doctor
  Melvin Konner, M.D.
• Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
  Atul Gawande
• Blind Eye
  James B. Stewart
• Body of Work: Meditations on Morality from the Human Anatomy Lab
  Christine Montross
• Cardiology Handbook for Clinicians
  Elias Hanna, M.D.
• Caring for Patients from Different Cultures, 4th Edition
  Geri-Ann Galanti
• The Changing Face of Medicine: Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America
  Ann K. Boulis and Jerry A. Jacobs
• Classic Cases in Medical Ethics
  Gregory E. Pence
• Clinical Ethics:  A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine, 7th Edition
  Albert R. Jonsen, Mark Siegler, William J. Winslade
• Complications
  Atul Gawande
• The Corporate Transformation of Health Care
  John P. Geyman '52, M.D.
• Damages
  Barry Werth
• Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies?
  Kenneth V. Iserson, M.D.
• Deciding for Science: Premedical Undergraduates' Interest in Research
  Thesis, Renu R. Ouseph
• The Desire to Heal
  Rafael Campo
• Doctoring: The Nature of Primary Care Medicine
  Eric J. Cassell
• Embracing Your Practice:  The Pfizer Guide to Careers for Physicians
  Edited by Salvatore J. Giorgianni, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Group
• Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
  Lisa Sanders M.D.
• Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
  Pauline W. Chen
• First, Do No Harm
  Lisa Belkin
• Full Preparation:  The Pfizer Guide to Careers in Pharmacy
  Edited by Salvatore J. Giorgianni, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Group
• Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
  Matt Ridley
• Gesundheit!
  Patch Adams, M.D.
• Handbook for Clinical Gynecologic Endocrinology and Infertility
  John D. Gordon '85, M.D. and Leon Speroff
• Healing Our World: Inside Doctors Without Borders
  David Morley
• Health Care Half Truths: Too Many Myths, Not Enough Reality
  Arthur Garson Jr., M.D., MPH, & Carolyn L. Engelhard, MPA
• Heirs of General Practice
  John McPhee
• Hope in Hell:  Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders
  Dan Bortolotti
• Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God, and Diversity on Steroids
  Julie Salamon
• How Doctors Think
  Jerome Groopman, M.D.
• How We Die:  Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
  Sherwin B. Nuland
• The Human Side of Medicine: Learning What it's Like to be a Patient and What it's Like to be a Physician
  Laurence A. Savett, M.D.
• Iconoclast:  Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning
  Thomas Neville Bonner
• Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine
  Danielle Ofri
• It's Not About the Bike:  My Journey Back to Life
  Lance Armstrong
• Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal
  Rachel Naomi Remen M.D.
• The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery
  Wendy Moore
• Letters to a Young Doctor
  Richard Selzer
• Life After Medical School
  Leonard Laster, M.D.
• The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
  Lewis Thomas
• Love and Modern Medicine
  Perri Klass
• Match Day: One Day and One Dramatic Year in the Lives of Three New Doctors
  Brian Eule
• The Measure of Our Days: A Spiritual Exploration of Illness
  Jerome Groopman, M.D.
• Med School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Medical School Experience
  Robert H. Miller and Daniel M. Bissell M.D.
• Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
  Henry Smith Pritchett, Abraham Flexner, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
• Medical School: Getting In, Staying In, Staying Human, Revised Edition
  Keith Russell Ablow, M.D., St. Martin's Press
• The Medical School Interview: Secrets and a System for Success
  Jeremiah Fleenor, M.D., MBA
• The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
  Lewis Thomas
• The Mind of a Mnemonist
  A. R. Luria
• The Mindful Medical Student: A Psychiatrist's Guide to Staying Who You Are While Becoming Who You Want to Be
  Jeremy Spiegel, M.D.
• Miscarriage, Medicine & Miracles
  Bruce K. Young '59, M.D., F.A.C.O.G. and Amy Zavatto
• My Own Country
  Abraham Verghese, M.D.
• My Own Medicine: A Doctor's Life as a Patient
  Geoffrey Kurland, M.D.
• Neuroscience Training Programs in North America
• A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years As a Medical Student
  Perri Klass
• Obstetrics, Gynecology and Infertility:  Handbook for Clinicians, 6th Edition
  John Gordon '85, M.D.
• Obstetrics, Gynecology and Infertility:  Handbook for Clinicians, 6th Edition (International Version)
  John Gordon '85, M.D.
• On Being a Doctor
  Michael A. LaCombe, M.D.
• On Being a Doctor 2: Voices of Physicians and Patients
  Michael A. LaCombe, M.D.
• On Call in Hell:  A Doctor's Iraq War Story
  CDR. Richard Jadick, with Thomas Hayden
• Pass Your Oral OB/GYN Board Exam!
  Anita Krishna Das, M.D.
• Physician Assistants, Second Edition
  Roderick S. Hooker, James F. Cawley
• Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio:  A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America
  Bert Hansen
• Pre-Med: Who Makes It and Why
  Mary Ann Maguire
• Public Health: Career Choices That Make a Difference
  Bernard J. Turnock
• The Real Life of a Pediatrician
  Perri Klass, M.D.
• The Real Life of an Internist
  Mark D. Tyler-Lloyd, M.D., MPH
• The Right Thing to Do, the Smart Thing to Do: Summary on Diversity in Health Professions
• Roadmap to Diversity:  Integrating Holistic Review Practices Into Medical School Admission Processes
  AAMC Publication
• Roadmap to Diversity: Key Legal & Educational Policy Foundations for Medical School
  AAMC Publication
• The Scalpel and The Silver Bear
  Lori Arviso Alvord, M.D.
• Second Sight:  Views Fro an Eye Doctor's Odyssey
  David Paton, MD
• Singular Intimacies
  Danielle Ofri
• The Social Transformation of American Medicine
  Paul Starr
• Something for the Pain: One Doctor's Account of Life and Death in the ER
  Paul Austin, M.D.
• The Soul of a Doctor: Harvard Medical Students Face Life and Death
  Susan Pories, MD, Sachin H. Jain, and Gordon Harper, M.D.
• The Soul of Medicine: Tales from the Bedside
  Sherwin B. Nuland
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
  Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1997, Anne Fadiman
• Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
  Tracy Kidder
• Szülészet Nögyógyászat Infertilitás
  Klinikai kézikönyv
• Taking My Place in Medicine: A Guide for Minority Medical Students
  Carmen Webb
• Talking With Doctors
  David Newman
• Tell Me Where It Hurts:  A Day of Humor, Healing, and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon
  Dr. Nick Trout
• The Tennis Partner
  Abraham Varghese
• Three 19th-Century Women Doctors: Elizabeth Blackwell, Mary Walker, and Sarah Loguen Fraser
  Mary K. LeClaire, Justin D. White and Susan Keeter
• Time to Heal
  Kenneth M. Ludmerer
• The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do about It
  Marcia Angell M.D.
• What I Learned in Medical School: Personal Stories of Young Doctors
  Edited by Kevin M. Takakuwa, Nick Rubashkin, Karen E. Herzig
• What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student's Journey
  Audrey Young, M.D.
• Women in Medicine: Getting in, Growing and Advancing
  Janet Bickel
• The Woman in the Surgeon's Body
  Joan Cassell
• Women's Health For Life: Written by Women for Women, Symptoms, Treatment, Prevention
  Donnica Moore '81, M.D.
• White Coat: Becoming a Doctor at Harvard Medical School
  Ellen Lerner Rothman, M.D.
• Yale Daily News Guide to Fellowships and Grants
  Justin Cohen, Ali Mohamadi, Gail Schlachter, R. David Weber, Kaplan
• Your Medical Mind:  How to Decide What is Right for You
  Jerome Groopman, M.D, Pamela Hartzband, M.D.

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• 101 Tips on Getting Into Medical School
  Jennifer C. Welch
• Admission Requirements of Canadian Faculties of Medicine, Admission in 2001 or 2002
  ACMC
• Best Graduate Programs: Physical & Biological Sciences, Second Edition
  Jonathan Spaihts, The Princeton Review
• Best Medical Schools, 2000 Edition
  Malaika Stoll, The Princeton Review
• Complete Book of Medical Schools
  The Princeton Review, Malaika Stoll
• Complete Guide to Foreign Medical Schools . . . in Plain English
  Nilanjan Sen
• The Complete Guide to the MD/PhD Degree
  Ben Rosner M.D., PhD, Jayakar Nayak M.D., PhD
• Cracking the MCAT CBT, 2nd Edition
  James L. Flowers, M.D., MPH, and Theodore Silver, MD
• Dental Admission Test
  The Betz Guide, Williams and Wilkins
• Directory of Accredited Physical Therapy Education Programs
  American Physical Therapy Association
• Directory of American Medical Education
  Association of American Medical Colleges
• Diversity in the Physician Workforce:  Facts & Figures 2010
  Association of American Medical Colleges
• The DOs: Osteopathic Medicine in America, 2nd Edition
  Norman Gevitz
• Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) Report on American Medicine
  ECFMG Acculturation Program
• Essays That Worked for Medical Schools: 40 Essays from Successful Applications to the Nation's Top Medical Schools
  Emily Angel Baer
• Exam Krackers: 101 Passages in MCAT Verbal Reasoning
• Exam Krackers: 1001 Questions in MCAT Biology
  Alex Merkulov
• Exam Krackers: 1001 Questions in MCAT Chemistry
  Scott Calvin PhD, and Jonathan Orsay
• Exam Krackers: Biology, 7th Edition
• Exam Krackers: Chemistry, 7th Edition
• Exam Krackers MCAT Simulated Exam 1H
• Exam Krackers: Physics, 7th Edition
• Exam Krackers: Verbal Reasoning & Mathematical Techniques, 7th Edition
• Foreign Medical Schools
  Carlos Pestana
• Get Into Medical School!
  Kenneth V. Iserson, M.D.
• Get Into Medical School! 2nd Edition
  Kenneth V. Iserson, M.D.
• Get Into Veterinary School: Insights by an Admissions Expert
  Joseph M. Piekuna, M.S.E.d.
• Getting Into A Residency: A Guide for Medical Students
  Kenneth U. Iserson, M.D.
• Getting Through Dental School: ASDA'S Guide for Dental Students 2000-2001
• The Gold Standard MCAT
  Dr. Brett Ferdinand, M.D.
• Gourman Report, A Rating of Graduate and Professional Programs in American & International Universities
  Dr. Jack Gourman, 8th edition
• Graduate Programs in Business, Education, Health, Information Studies, Law & Social Work
  Peterson's
• Graduate Medical Education Directory 2008-2009
  American Medical Association
• Guide To Medical and Dental Schools, 8th Edition
  Barron's Educational Series, Inc.
• Guide To Medical and Dental Schools, 11^th Edition
  Barron's Educational Series, Inc.
• Guide To North American Graduate and Postgraduate Training Programs in Human Genetics, 1996-97 Edition
  The American Society of Human Genetics
• How to Get Into the Right Dental School
  Carla S. Rogers, PhD
• How to Write a Winning Personal Statement for Graduate and Professional School, 3rd Edition
  Richard J. Stelzer, Peterson's
• Hyperlearning MCAT In-Class Compendium 2010
  The Princeton Review
• Hyperlearning MCAT Science Workbook 2010
  The Princeton Review
• Hyperlearning MCAT Verbal Workbook 2010
  The Princeton Review 
• Insider's Guide To Graduate Programs In Clinical and Counseling Psychology, 2000-2001 Edition
  John C. Norcross, Michael A. Sayette, & Tracy J. Mayne, The Guilford Press
• Jump Start MCAT: Student to Student Guide
  Chirag Amin, M.D., Vikas Bhushan, M.D., and Tao Le, M.D., Williams & Wilkins
• LGBT...Pre-med...Princeton:  A Guide for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgendered Medical School Applicants From Princeton
  Glenn Cummings, PhD, Jess Deutsch, T.J. Klein
• MCAT 45: Advanced Prep for Advanced Students, 2008 Edition
  Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions
• MCAT 2008, 12th Edition (With CD)
  Barron's Edcuational Series Inc.
• MCAT Biological Sciences Review Notes
  Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions
• MCAT Biology Review
  The Princeton Review 
• MCAT General Chemistry Review
  The Princeton Review
• MCAT General Chemistry Review Notes
  Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions
• MCAT High-Yield Problem Solving Guide
  Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions
• MCAT Lesson Book
  Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions
• MCAT Inside Scoop on Medical Schools Admissions Workbook
  Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions
• MCAT Most Up-to-Date Review & Practice Tests Currently Available
  Barron's Educational Series 
• MCAT Organic Chemistry Review
  The Princeton Review
• MCAT Organic Chemistry Review Notes
  Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions
• MCAT Physical Sciences Review Notes
  Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions 
• MCAT Physics and Math Review
  The Princeton Review 
• MCAT Physics Review Notes
  Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions
• MCAT Verbal Reasoning Strategy & Practice
  Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions
• MCAT Verbal Reasoning Review Notes
  Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions
• MCAT Verbal Reasoning & Writing Review
  The Princeton Review
• Medical Professions Admission Guide: Strategy for Success
  Edited by Carol Baffi-Dugan, 5th Edition
• Medical School Admission Requirements, 2012-2013
  AAMC
• Medical School Admissions Adviser, 2001 Edition
  Maria Lofftus and Thomas C. Taylor, Kaplan
• Medical School Admissions, The Insider's Guide, 5th Revised Edition
  John A. Zebala, Daniel B. Jones, Stephanie B. Jones, Mustang Publishing
• Meeting the Challenge of the MCAT, Third Addition
  Evelyn W. Jackson, Ph.D., Shirley McGlinn, M.S., Linda Herrold, M.S.
• Minority Student Opportunities in United States Medical Schools
  Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
• Minority Student Opportunities in United States Medical Schools
  Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
• Official Guide to Dental Schools, American Association of Dental Schools
  ADEA
• The Official Guide to the MCAT Exam, 2nd Edition
  AAMC
• Opportunities for Minority Students in United States Dental Schools
  American Association of Dental Schools
• Osteopathic Medical College Information Book
  
• Planning Your Career in Alternative Medicine
  Dianne J. B. Lyons
• Pre-Dental Guide: A Guide for Successfully Getting Into Dental Schools
  Joseph S. Kim, DDS
• Resumes and Personal Statements for Health Professionals
  James W. Tysinger, PhD
• U.S. & Canadian Medical Schools
  Peterson's
• VETs Complete Preparation for the Veterinary Entrance Tests
  Aftab S. Hassan, PhD
• Veterinary Medical School Admission Requirements in the United States and Canada, 2010
  Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges

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• Academic Medicine
  Academic journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).
• American Medical News
  Published twice monthly, the official newspaper of the American Medical Association (AMA).
• Global Health
  Published quarterly by the Global Health Council.
• The New Physician
  Monthly magazine published by the American Medical Student Association (AMSA).

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• AMCAS/Personal Statement Information Session (mp3) • May 3, 2011
    
 
• Interviewing Information Session (mp3)  • May 10, 2011
    

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• The Business of Being Born:  A documentary film from executive producer Ricki Lake and director Abby Epstein.  The film interlaces intimate birth stories with surprising historical, political and scientific insights and shocking statistics about the current maternity care system. When director Epstein discovers she is pregnant during the making of the film, the journey becomes even more personal.
• The Doctor: Featuring William Hurt
  The story of a doctor who thought he knew it all, until he became a patient.
• Doctors' Diaries: 7 Doctors, 21 Years, PBS
  Candid, in-depth interviews with seven Harvard medical students give viewers a real sense of what each person has to deal with day in and day out.  Follows physicians from first day of medical school through their medical careers.
• The Hospital:  Featuring George C. Scott
  Black comedy in which a suicidal doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital.
• Sicko: A film by Michael Moore
  Moore pulls the curtain back on the HMOs, drug companies, and congressmen who keep us ill.
• Wit: A film by Mike Nichols, featuring Emma Thompson
  Vivian Bearing, a well established English professor, is diagnosed with a devastating illness. She agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, expensive and experimental. No longer a teacher, but a subject for others to study, Vivian, is about to discover a fine line between life and death that can only be walked with wit.

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