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www.aamc.org is the Association of American Medical Colleges which gives all kinds of information for applicants and advisors. It contains links to medical schools and the AMCAS-E download. AMCAS-E® is a Windows program developed by the AAMC for use by applicants to U.S. medical schools participating in AMCAS®.

The Student Doctor Network is a nonprofit organization that offers links to personal accounts and general application info that is useful to premedical, predental, and pre-pharmacy students. Its resources include students' descriptions of their actual interviews, searchable by school.

Western Consortium Summer Medical Education Program (WC-SMEP) is a free summer program at UW, for students from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds, who are considering medical or dental careers. There are other campuses across the USA.
 

Here's some sound advice from a fellow Lute, now a UW medical school graduate:

Visit the American Medical Association's website (www.ama-assn.org) and spend some time in the future months/years reading through policy, ethical, medical, and political issues from the AMA. You can subscribe to the online version of AMNEWS (http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews). I would HIGHLY recommend that you spend time each week reviewing the latest.

Finally I might recommend subscribing to an email list for a medical journal (JAMA, NEJM, Nature Med, Lancet). I subscribed (free) to three of them and found it very helpful to just read the table of contents, and an occasional abstract.