Science Reading for Prospective Medical Students

A solid grounding in science is a necessary prerequisite for medical school. All of you will have taken science courses as part of your preparation. Not all of you will remember all the details of those courses well enough to apply them to your courses in basic medical science.

We asked the Ross faculty to recommend some readings that could help prepare you for their courses. Those faculty recommendations are listed below. If you have time to refresh and deepen your knowledge of this material, you will certainly be at an advantage when you start your first semester at Ross.

Basic Chemistry, strongly recommended preparatory reading for the first semester biochemistry course, written by Ross biochemistry faculty.

Organic Chemistry: An Introduction Emphasizing Biological Connections
I. David Rheingold

Essential Principles of Physics
P.M. Whelan and M.J. Hodgson

Biochemistry Online: An Approach Based on Chemical Logic

Histology for Pathologists. 3rd Edition. Stacey E. Mills (Ed.). Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7817-6241-0