Top Five Movies about Medical School

Some films are made to depict reality. There are movies about war, love, rock bands, pro-golfers, high school, and medical school. Yes, medical school. Is there a better way to present life’s biggest challenges than to feature a group of sleep-deficient medical students undergoing quarter-life crisis? Here are the top five movies that will help you prepare for the crazy and exciting world of medical school:

Of Human Bondage (1934)

After confirming his mediocrity in painting, Philip Carey left Paris to pursue a medical career in his native London. There he finds that the best distraction to medical studies is to fall in love with a manipulative and illiterate tearoom waitress who hates club-footed men. Find out how Philip will survive medical school and find his place in the world while dealing with his irrational obsession to Mildred.

Bad Medicine (1985)

What did Jeffrey Marx do when every single medical school in the United States gave him a thumbs-down? Find a medical school somewhere in Central America, of course! Jeffrey, with the help of his fellow medical students from Madera Universidad de Medicina, faces the ultimate challenge of saving the entire town by providing medical assistance to the impoverished villagers – even before they’re legally allowed to.

Gross Anatomy (1989)

How can a person who never plays by the book survive a world that is heavily based on one? Watch how the troublesome yet brilliant Joe Slovak struggles not only to pass his human dissection class – that is supervised by his uber-demanding teacher, Dr. Woodruff who continuously questions Joe’s place in the medical world – but also to win the heart of his overachieving lab partner.

Vital Signs (1990)

When the third year medical students from LA Central try to outwit each other for that much coveted internship, they learn that life in the hospital is not all glitz and glamor. Although they have every hair strand perfectly in place despite their sleepless state, the medical students from LA Central find out that surviving a career in medicine is not only about saving other people’s lives but saving their own as well.

Anatomy (2000)

A spot in University of Heidelberg Medical School’s special summer course means the world to Paula Henning. But after finding her one-time train buddy on her dissection table, Paula begins to question where the school gets its not-so-dead cadavers for gross anatomy class. Now, Paula needs not only to compete for her place in the medical world, but also to fight for her own life before she ends up in her own dissecting table.

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