PreHealth Useful/Suggested Reading List

This list was originally compiled by: David A. Egloff, Professor of Biology, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. Many changes have been made since that original list.

READ MORE! It does not matter what you read as long as you continue to hone your reading and comprehension skills. As your reading improves, you will find it easier to cope with your college coursework.

Success on the DAT, MCAT, OAT and other admissions tests depend upon good reading skills. In most professional school studies, 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 busy. You will not have the time to re-read material.

After graduation from professional school, you may not need to read as many textbooks as before, but you will need to keep current on many aspects of medicine, drugs, and governmental regulations as well as those of insurance or health care maintenance organizations.

If you hope to become a health professional who has a life outside of your practice, you should practice, now, reading with the intent to improve....

-from "Words to the Wise"; Pre-Health Professional Student; HPAP

The reading list is in pdf format.