There is a different type of life force that medical school professors want!
Seoul National University College of Medicine produced 10 students a year, and more than 1,000 students were accepted to medical schools.
Medical school admissions consulting revealed by Korea's top medical school consultant

As the number of medical school admissions increases starting in 2025, the rush to top medical schools is expected to accelerate, leading to an increase in the number of students accepted through regular admissions.
Nationwide, 29 out of 39 medical schools select more than 60% of their students through the early admission process, and even in the regular admission process, the number of schools that reflect student records is gradually increasing.
Ultimately, all these figures indicate that the life history section has become that important in medical school admissions, but it is also true that it is difficult to know how to differentiate the life history section in order to prepare for medical school.
To this end, Korea's top medical school admissions expert has come forward with a clear answer.

The author has been providing medical school admissions consulting to top students for over 20 years, and is Korea's top medical school admissions consultant, having helped 10 students get into Seoul National University College of Medicine alone each year and a cumulative total of over 1,000 medical school admissions.
In this book, "50 Must-Read Books for Medical School Students," the author has included ways for students preparing for medical school to creatively incorporate reading into the special features and creativity of the medical school.
The book introduces 50 must-read books based on five keywords: humanities, society, basic medical science, the profession of medicine, and future medicine. It also provides ideas on how to incorporate each book into the three major activities of the creative body: autonomous activities, club activities, and career activities.
In a particularly important special case, we selected two or three of the most advantageous subjects and creatively and integrated one book into various subjects.
It covers all high school subjects, including not only science subjects such as life science, physics, and chemistry, but also Korean, social studies, English, and arts and physical education, and guides students to naturally develop the thinking styles, capabilities, and interests necessary for medical school aspirants.

The author says that medical schools closely examine the reading activities incorporated into their curriculum.
This is because I believe that a doctor's communication skills and ability to detect a patient's illness and pain are proportional to his or her literacy in reading books.
The author emphasizes that students from general high schools hoping to become medical school students, who are absolutely unable to beat gifted high school students in particular in experiments, should focus much more on creating a differentiated life story through reading.
He also said that he has seen many cases where students with good grades failed to pass the school entrance exam, and that students should also take care of extracurricular activities such as reading.

This book is based on the author's extensive experience with numerous students who have been accepted to medical schools, as well as his analysis of medical school admission trends.
When selecting must-read books, the author excluded common books that come to mind when thinking of 'medical school'.
I chose books that would pique the curiosity of medical school professors upon seeing the biographical information. Rather than focusing on the difficulty or popularity of the books, I chose books based on how well they demonstrate that I am a suitable candidate for medical school. I also chose books that cover a wide range of topics, from old classics to the latest trends, rather than focusing solely on life sciences.


This specific 'medical school admissions' secret, which no one has ever attempted before, will help you make 100% use of it without missing anything, even if you just read one book.
Now, let's take a look at the three-year reading curriculum that will help you build your own competitive edge in medical school.
It will open the way for students who work hard to achieve their goal of being accepted to medical school.

As I've emphasized in several places in my book, the medical profession expects an interest in the humanities and social sciences, no less than in mathematics.
During my counseling sessions, I have seen countless cases of students who applied to medical school through the early admission process while still in school, saying, "I'm top in math and science in the whole school, so I'll definitely be accepted to medical school," but ended up being rejected.
These students tend to fall behind students who do well in all subjects and also take advantage of non-academic activities such as discussion, writing, and reading.
The profession of a doctor is to cure sick people, but curing does not only include treatment, but is also an act of healing.
Being a doctor is a profession that values ​​morality as much as expertise, and medical school professors are a group that shares this view.
--- p.8 From the "Prologue"

Another reason why you should invest in medical school admissions is because the medical school admissions process for repeat applicants and current applicants is completely different.
80% of repeat students advance to medical school on time.
High school seniors are the opposite.
80% are regular students, and 95% of them are current students.
In the general admission process at Seoul National University, which selects 49 students, only about 1 student is a repeat student, and in the regular admission process, which selects 39 students, repeat students cannot even apply.
The biggest reason is the competitiveness of the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
It is difficult for repeat students who have already completed their student record to keep up with the increasingly new and in-depth creations and special features of the life science department.
In medical school admissions, the CSAT is still the most important, followed by school grades, but if you are currently enrolled, you should naturally start preparing for your medical school exams from your first year.
In other words, if you have both high grades and a good academic record, your options for medical schools will increase.
--- p.25

This happened when I was consulting a student who was a graduate of a gifted high school and was completely science-oriented.
At the time, I asked this student to include humanistic reflections in all three books he included in his Seoul National University personal statement.
By proving his balance between scientific knowledge and liberal arts reflection, he was finally able to get into Seoul National University College of Medicine. At the time, one of the books that contained his humanities reflections was “The Cessation of Death.”
"If death ceases, will the role of the doctor cease?" He pushed his thoughts on this question, utilizing the landscapes contained throughout the novel.
--- p.48 From "The Cessation of Death"

How to incorporate this book into your special
★ Speaking and Writing: Most students tend to overly link their special skills to their career path and major.
As a result, it is easy for it to become a show of passion, with nothing but praise or a willingness to grind one's bones and dedicate oneself to that major.
However, from the perspective of medical humanities, excessive career paths cause more harm than good.
Rather than forcibly linking every subject to medicine, it is better to show diverse interests, and in that sense, the subjects for which this book is most applicable are speaking and writing.
In speaking and writing classes, we learn about creative writing, which ultimately begins with a questioning of what we know as conventional wisdom.
This book would be a good example to use when criticizing the prejudice that medicine is a science discipline with little to do with the humanities.
--- p.66 From "BOOK 4, What are Medical Humanities"

How to melt this book into your brain
★Career Activities: If you are hoping to go to medical school, your career activities will primarily include research on diseases and chemical experiments.
And some discuss medical artificial intelligence in connection with computers.
However, Professor Lee Eo-ryeong is also a person with a great interest in industry, and the fifth poem in this book has an industrial engineering meaning: 'Thoughts always come later than the speed of civilization.'
Even when cars were created, the unit to measure their power was words, and even when lights were created, the unit to express their brightness was candlelight.
Based on the ideas gained from this collection of poems, let's explore the relationship between actual technology and the standard units used to measure technology.
If you start with the humanities and go all the way to engineering, there's a path to medicine in between.
--- p.102 From "BOOK9, A Drop of Tears"

The author describes his profession as being closer to that of a sociologist.
When doctors talk about lung cancer, he is more interested in the relationship between lung cancer and smoking, and the social discrimination that lung cancer patients face.
Why should medical school students take a greater interest in society? Only then can medicine truly harness its power to uncover the causes of disease.
To be a good doctor, you need to be able to look at the social and economic issues patients face, including employment issues, from a macro perspective, rather than just looking at the patient's health status through CT or MRI scans.
--- p.125 From "BOOK13, For Pain to Become a Path"

How to incorporate this book into your special
★Economics: This book can also be used for economics classes.
This is because epigenetics and behavioral economics met to create the discipline of behavioral epigenetics.
The key point is that since repeated human behavior can clearly affect genes, these epigenetic changes can also affect economic behavior.
For example, epigenetic changes caused by stress can lead to risky investments or addictions.
Epigenetic research can also help improve economic policies and understand how the economic environment affects an individual's genetic expression.
By improving economic policies through this, we can improve individual health and well-being.
--- p.227 From "BOOK28, How Experiences Are Engraved in Genes"

After reading this book, I recommended it to many students preparing for medical school and saw them pass the exam.
The author of the book is a man as fit for medical school as Oliver Sacks: Nobel Prize-winning physician Bernard Lown.
Students who are particularly inclined towards math and science will find that reading this book will make their thinking much more flexible and gentle.
Communication skills are strengthened.
His books are full of insights into humanity, healing, and the profession of medicine.
In particular, I believe that these words are a golden rule that students preparing for medical school should keep in mind for the rest of their lives.
“Treating a patient based on materialistic knowledge without understanding human nature is no different from the actions of a plumber unclogging a clogged pipe.”
--- p.275 From "BOOK36, On the Lost Essence of Healing"

How to melt this book into your brain
★Club Activities: “Medicine has been dehumanized, prioritizing technology while relegating patients to the background.” His sharp critique of modern medicine is a subject worth exploring in a discussion club.
Let's discuss the topic: 'Should medicine prioritize technology or patients?'
Of course, this argument is not black and white, and a balanced view that technology should be used for the benefit of patients is also possible.
--- p.278 From "BOOK36, On the Lost Essence of Healing"

In that student's life record, the name of a writer (whose main occupation is a doctor) is written from the first year to the third year.
This is Eric Topol, who was appointed as a professor of cardiology at Cleveland Clinic, a prestigious medical school in the United States, at the age of 36.
The student said he still vividly remembers his childhood experience at an experiential camp where he wore a doctor's gown and had a stethoscope put in his ear.
Then, while we were having a class, he said this to me.
“For a doctor, the stethoscope meant the medical practice itself.
There were times when a stethoscope looked cooler than a gown.
But it's amazing that Eric Topol predicted a decade ago that doctors would be seeing patients with computers instead of stethoscopes.
I thought that in order to become a good doctor, I had to look at medicine from a technical perspective.
“Because medicine is an evolving discipline.”

--- p.
317 From "BOOK42, Deep Medicine"