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Best 162 Medical Schools 2006 (Graduate School Admissions Gui)

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I was expecting this book to go above and beyond what the Medical School Admissions Requirements provides (published by the AAMC). Instead, it fell short in several basic areas, and I decided to promptly return it. To be honest, I'm a little angry with TPR for putting out such a mediocre guide. Don't waste your time--just buy the MSAR--it's a much richer source of information.

While Bastyr University is one of multiple medical schools in the United States to provide education for naturopathic medical doctors, it is far from a science that should be dismissed as "quackery." The medical education received by naturopathic medical doctors specializes in the training of primary care physicians who are willing to pursue whatever avenue possible in order to heal their patients. Naturopathic medicine recognizes the individuality of patients and seeks to treat those patients as effectively as possible. Many times a simple change in diet or herbal remedy can fix these issues.

Allopathic is not derogatory, by the way. Allopathic just means treating differently, while homeopathy means treating with the same. Back when the the terms were coined allopaths were doing things like bloodletting in order to treat disease. Bloodletting did not have any correlation with the disease, hence it was termed "allopathy."

Being a non-traditional applicant I found this guide very helpful- it has a lot of useful information on preparing for med school including MCAT, applications, essays, interviewing, etc. Another bonus- it has a section explaining the differences and similarities between allopathic & osteopathic med schools which other guides don't cover adequately. The only negative about this guide is the applicant stats on the profiled schools- it isn't up to date but I guess this can be remedied by referring to the annual guides published by AAMC or AOA.

It should be noted that "The Princeton Review" has nothing but its name in common with Princeton University. It's an "educational preparation" company, whose core business is test coaching.

The contents of this book have not been authorised, or as far as I know even seen, by Princeton University.

This book includes, as one of the best 162, "Bastyr University" which is neither school for MDs or OD -- but for naturopaths! Naturopathy is total quackery and has nothing to do with real medical schools. But I'm sure the naturopaths will be delighted to see this apparent endorsement by Princeton.

Also this book uses the term "allopathic" to refer to real medical schools. This term is a derogatory word invented in the 19th century by homeopaths to refer to those practices that aren't homeopathic.