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I did some research last summer for an MD/PhD at a school 4 hours away from my own. I did not finish the project within 2 months, but the PI's grad student at the time continued to collect data and eventually wrote her thesis on our project.
Thing is, during the whole summer, this guy kept telling me that we're going to make this little project into a paper. Furthermore, he told me to actually start writing it...but I didn't get very far without all the analyzed data. Half a year later (this spring) he gave me the rest of the data, along with a copy of his grad student's thesis which he told me to use as a backbone for my own paper.
I obviously can't work on it right now since I'm studying for Step 1, but I'm wondering if I'd be wasting my time trying to bang something together in the week following my exam? He said he does NOT write any of his student's papers for them, he only recommends minor changes. I'm just afraid that he might be BSing me when he says we can def. make a publishable paper out of this just so that he doesn't feel guilty about using me as slave labor.
Can anyone that knows a lot about publishing scientific articles enlighten me as to how difficult it is for your work to be accepted and published? My project was bench, not clinical. I wish I could say our data is rock-solid, but we had a lot of problems with our equipment so I don't how reliable any of it is...
Thing is, during the whole summer, this guy kept telling me that we're going to make this little project into a paper. Furthermore, he told me to actually start writing it...but I didn't get very far without all the analyzed data. Half a year later (this spring) he gave me the rest of the data, along with a copy of his grad student's thesis which he told me to use as a backbone for my own paper.
I obviously can't work on it right now since I'm studying for Step 1, but I'm wondering if I'd be wasting my time trying to bang something together in the week following my exam? He said he does NOT write any of his student's papers for them, he only recommends minor changes. I'm just afraid that he might be BSing me when he says we can def. make a publishable paper out of this just so that he doesn't feel guilty about using me as slave labor.
Can anyone that knows a lot about publishing scientific articles enlighten me as to how difficult it is for your work to be accepted and published? My project was bench, not clinical. I wish I could say our data is rock-solid, but we had a lot of problems with our equipment so I don't how reliable any of it is...