Taking My Place in Medicine: A Guide for Minority Medical Students

by Carmen Webb

Book Overview

This book is designed to help minority students thrive personally and academically in medical school, to make a realistic assessment of their strengths and weaknesses, to successfully confront societal myths and stereotypes and to develop healthy strategies to meet academic, personal, and relationship needs. Carmen Webb, having assisted countless medical students with these issues, has assembled an outstanding cadre of insightful professionals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761918094
• ISBN13: 9780761918097
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Emotional support for minority medical students

This is a fascinating text about the psychological hurdles minority students face in medical school. My only criticism of this text is that it doesn't contain a lot of concrete advice to minority medical students such as how to find scholarships and choose a medical school that is progressive on the issue of diversity. Perhaps this sort of advice is offered elsewhere, though. I would like to see some of the authors excerpted in other texts because much of what they say is applicable to academic culture in general, not just medical school.