I'm bringing you multiple guests - the Admissions Team from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine! The Dean AND Director of Admissions get in on the conversation along with a current medical student. You will hear the student perspective about Pritzker along with some insight into the value that medical students bring to the admissions process.
Resources
Their Recommendations
Dr. Carter's:
Read books about the patients they are serving in their communities!
by Isabel Wilkerson
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.
Emily's:
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and now a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer.
Balaji's:
by Tara Westover
Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties.
Podcast:
by Malcolm Gladwell.