Pre-Health Professions: Reading List

 Read, read, read! 

It does not matter what you read, as long as you continue to sharpen your reading skills!

Success on the MCAT, DAT, PCAT, OAT, and GRE depends on these good reading skills.  In most health profession programs, you will be expected to read and comprehend as much as, if not more than, you do now as an undergraduate. 

Also, you will be very, very busy, so you may not have time to re-read material. 

After graduation from a health professions school, you will need to keep current on many aspects of medicine, drugs, governmental regulations, and insurance companies.  If you hope to be a health professional with a life outside your practice, you should be honing your reading skills now.

• The National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions (NAAHP) maintains an extensive recommended reading list.
• Read at least the Health and Op Ed sections of such papers as the New York Times, which is available free on line, on a regular basis.
• Read the professional journal(s) of the profession(s) you are planning on entering; for example, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).