A guide for students who are seeking admission to medical school is presented. The comprehensive coverage includes basic facts about medicine as well as specific requirements about the following areas: facts about health careers, treating patients, and nonpatient-oriented fields of medicine; the demands of medical education; planning a premedical curriculum; selecting a medical school; applying for admission and filing application forms; the personal interview; the medical admission test; the evaluation committee; the role of an applicant's spouse or family in decision-making; concerns of the doctor-father who wants his or her child to become a doctor and concerns of the applicant who is uncertain about entering medicine; and advice for the rejected applicant. Names and addresses of U.S. medical schools, medical specialty boards, and health related associations are included. References to books and articles are included. (SW)