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How can I prepare myself academically before starting med school?

Any online course or textbook that I should be getting to get ready?

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James’s Answer

You do not need to do more than doing well in college. Being well-read is always good, and if you enjoy reading about physiology, psychology, or the many medical digests that one can find online do it. What may be the best preparation would be getting an EMT or MA certification. You would see medicine first-hand while learning valuable skills (and making money is great, too).
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Sal’s Answer

Once you’ve completed the MCAT, the prerequisites, and have gotten an admission letter and start date, I think the best thing is to just take it easy before you start. Med school is pretty different from undergrad and most grad schools. Best not to burn yourself out too early. The First Aid to Step 1 book is a great resource for both med school exams and the first step of your licensing exam.
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Rita’s Answer

I think volunteering will help you get into medical school but it did not help me while in medical school. I would work as a medical scribe so that I could learn the language of medicine. It's very hard because of the volume of information that needs to be learned. As a scribe, you can see what doctors do, how they deal with difficult patients, learn the language of medicine and interact with doctors. This will help you during medical school and they pay you as a scribe. I think the scribe jobs may be disappearing though because of AI. If after scribing, you decide that medicine is not for you, you just saved yourself a lot of time and money.

On TV, they make the job look exciting. It gets to be pretty routine. It's long hours with a lot of work. Besides seeing patients, there's a lot of work before and after. There's a lot of telephone calls, reviewing labs, Xrays, documents, notes from other doctors, refilling etc. I recent article stated that most doctors spend 60 hours a week working...so it's not just seeing patients. I would bring my computer with me on vacation all the time.
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Marcos A.’s Answer

If you are still in college, and have not taken the courses listed below, I would strongly recommend (imho) consider enrolling in the following classes:

1. a Basic Satistics course( even a noncalculous based course would be helpful)

2. a Basic Psychology course

3. Read a great nonfiction book; " How Doctors Think" by Jerome Groopman, MD

And there you have have it, best of luck!
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