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Medical School Admission Requirements (MSAR): The Most Authoritative Guide to U.S. and Canadian Medical Schools
 
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Medical School Admission Requirements (MSAR): The Most Authoritative Guide to U.S. and Canadian Medical Schools [Paperback]

Association of American Medical Colleges (Corporate Author)

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1.0 out of 5 stars An unfortunate necessity, July 1 2011
By M. Troy - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Medical School Admission Requirements (MSAR): The Most Authoritative Guide to U.S. and Canadian Medical Schools (Paperback)
The MSAR is the official, authoritative guide to all of the allopathic medical colleges in North America; it would be unwise to apply to medical school without using it as a guide. In the past it presented an overview of each school on a two-page spread complete with admissions statistics, selection criteria, pre-requisites, and curriculum information. The best part of the MSAR was this easy-to-navigate layout with quick access to all of the information needed to make application decisions. Apparently, that was too convenient and logical.

With the new MSAR, the AAMC has published 286 of the most useless pages ever written on the topic of medical college admissions, ranking them above forest fires in the list of tragedies befallen by trees. All of the important information and data is now accessible only through the MSAR website, where you will find it (maybe) buried under a frustrating mountain menus and sub-menus that have been optimized for inefficiency. You'd be forgiven for suspecting that AAMC employs an army of watchmakers and cryptographers whose sole task is to uncover new and exciting ways to obscure two pages' worth of information. That's the only logical explanation.

Hopefully, the website will be improved next year, and they will return the printed edition to its previous form. In the mean time, I would recommend purchasing last year's edition on amazon, despite the inflated price (probably caused by the swarm of people seeking refuge from the horrors of the new format).

Disclaimer: The content of this review rests on the assumption that the AAMC intends the 2012 MSAR to be used as an aid to medical college admissions. I would feel quite silly if they were actually trying to market an exotic firewood substitute, as the MSAR performs admirably in this respect.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Worthless!! Where are the negative ratings??, Oct 3 2011
By New Orleanian by choice - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Medical School Admission Requirements (MSAR): The Most Authoritative Guide to U.S. and Canadian Medical Schools (Paperback)
The newest edition eliminated all of the useful information that was in the previous versions. It doesn't even list the require and recommended undergraduate courses!! This book is not worth consulting much less buying!!

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars waste of money and trees, July 30 2011
By DPac - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Medical School Admission Requirements (MSAR): The Most Authoritative Guide to U.S. and Canadian Medical Schools (Paperback)
Terrible book, complete waste of money, packaged it to return within 5 minutes of opening. The information in the book can be found online for free, some of it at the AMCAS website or just go to individual medical school's websites to get information. If you're looking to compare schools easily, this is not the book. It just gives a brief description of each school and statistics such as application deadline date. The online AMCAS database is almost useless, almost identical information as the book. Deserves zero stars.
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