Preparing for med school

I found a blog from a previous med student who suggested taking apart all of their books and 3 hole punching the pages into 3 inch binders. This is convenient so that you do not have to take all of your books everyday to class. Simply take out the appropriate chapters for each book, place them in a "travel binder" and you are good to go with a lighter backpack. Check out her website for some other tips: Medicine From the Trenches.

Picking them up from the print shop

Placing them in the binders.

All of the textbooks transferred into binders.

Things I had to buy to prepare for med school...

- White Coat ($35)
- 2 lab coats ($35 each)
- $900 in books (only the required booklist for first year)
- a $1500 laptop - highly suggested by all medical schools; on campus IT support available for this computer; students take their exams with this laptop; to prepare students for what current doctors are using
- disection kit ($30)
- stethescope ($150)
- $200 worth of shots (and counting)

*Keep in mind you have to buy all of these BEFORE your student loans arrive.