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

Tania Heller, MD

Nov 2018 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Coleen Marlo

About this audiobook

Everything They Don't Tell You, Everything You Need to Know Becoming a doctor is so much more than acing your MCATs, living through med school, then getting the perfect residency. It is a career that demands long hours on little to no sleep, constant continuing education, and a tough decision about which of the many types of medicine you want to practice. But with the right guide, you can make the right choices each step of the way. On Becoming a Doctor calmly and thoroughly walks you through each academic, physical, and emotional step you'll take on your way to a successful career in medicine, and it includes interviews with many different specialists to help you choose a medical path. This Essential Insider Advice Will Show You: - Financing all of the costs of medical school - The ups and downs of working with insurance companies - Perspectives on a variety of medical fields - The educational, physical, and emotional realities of the journey - Interviews with doctors in many different specialties - Working with other doctors and the administration On Becoming a Doctor covers everything you need to know about medical school, residency, specialization, and practice.

About the author

Tania Heller is an MD and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, educated in South Africa and trained at Georgetown. She has worked in a variety of types of medicine and has more than twenty years of experience as a doctor. She lives and practices in Bethesda, Maryland.

AudioFile Earphones Award winner Coleen Marlo has earned numerous Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards and won an Audie Award for her narration of Snakewoman of Little Egypt by Robert Hellenga.