All Access is taking you back to Chicago and is bringing you the Admissions Team from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. The Associate Dean AND Director of Admissions get in on the conversation along with a current medical student. You will hear the student perspective along with some insight into the value of medical students in the admissions process. We touch on a lot of issues and advice that can be applicable to a lot of medical school admissions processes. Have a question for the show? Send it to [email protected]

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University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

Scholarship & Discovery

Student-Run Free Clinics

Their Recommendations:

Dr. Carter's: Read books about the patients they are serving in their communities!

The Warmth of Other Suns 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: The Emperor of All Maladies 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: Educated 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: Revisionist History by Malcolm Gladwell.

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