Canisius College

Additional Resources

Web Sites
Unsure About Which Health Profession is for You?

• Explore Health Careers
• NYS Long Term Occupational Projections 
• Health Care Industry from US DOL Occupational Outlook Handbook

• American Dental Education Association YouTube VideoMentors 
• University of Kentucky Predental Recommendations and Timeline

• Medical and Health Services Manager from the US DOL Occupational Outlook Handbook
• The Student Doctor Network 
• American Association of Medical Colleges Premedical Student Timeline
• American Medical Association "Becoming an MD"
• Ellen Rothman's 1996 essay "On Becoming a Doctor", Harvard Medical School 
• MomMD "A Tough Decision"
• UC Davis "Becoming a Doctor"
• George Mason University Health Professions Advising

• American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy "Is Pharmacy for You?"

• American Physical Therapy Association "Be a PT"

• American Optometric Association "Why Choose Optometry?"

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
• Better and Complications by Atul Gawande
• Genome by Matt Ridley
• Mountains beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder’s biography of Dr. Paul Farmer
• Heart in the Right Place by Carolyn Jourdan
• My Own Country by Abraham Verghese
• Gifted Hands by Ben Carson
• Think Big by Ben Carson
• Treatment Kind and Fair by Perry Klass
• The Soul of a Doctor: Harvard Medical Students Face Life and Death
  (essays from Harvard Medical School students)
• Intern by Sandeep Jauhar
• The Pact  - about 3 teens from Newark who made a pact to “make something” of themselves and escape their drug infested neighborhood. They supported each other through medical school (for 2 of them) and dental school for the other.
• On Being a Scientist (3rd edition)
• How Doctors Think, by Jerome Groopman
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down  by Fadiman
• Road Less Traveled by Scott Peck
• Good to Great by Jim Collins
• Great Influenza  by Barry
• The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
• 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa by Stephanie Nolen
• First, Do No Harm by Lisa Belkin
• Perfect Personal Statements, 2nd ed (Peterson’s Perfect Personal Statements: Law, Business, Medical, Graduate School)
• A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years As A Medical Student by Perri Klass
• Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor by Perri Klass
• Something for the Pain by Paul Austin, MD
• Chicken Soup for the Dentist by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen