Honors Medical Students: Becoming America's Best and Brightest

Honors Medical Students: Becoming America's Best and Brightest draws back the curtain and offers an intimate look into the lives of some of the nation's top medical graduates.

Follow these future leaders from their early childhood on, and explore such intriguing factors as family attitudes, home and school environments, academic achievements, key mentors, and early inklings they had as to their future calling. Along the way, they recount their personal struggles, pivotal insights, and significant life lessons.

Also included are nuts and bolts details such as their study techniques in high school, college, and medical school. They go into depth about the approaches they took to exam taking-from the SAT and MCAT to the USMLE Step 1 and USMLE Step 2 CK-and how they tackled the process of applying to college, medical school, and residency programs.

In describing their experiences as medical students, they give the reader an inside look into the programs and academic culture at such esteemed institutions as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, Duke, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Michigan, and the University of Maryland.