I'm a PGY-2 applying to Hem/Onc this year.
I have a chart review project that is almost done and ready to be submitted. It was shown to internal reviewers at my institution and they said it will find its way to a low-tier journal, but if I wanted to submit it to a mid to high-tier journal then I have to make "some" changes. Unfortunately, the changes that they suggested will require me to go through all the charts again to collect extra data points and then repeat the whole data analysis again. That will take months given my current work schedule. It's funny that no one talked about these changes when the project was discussed initially over a year ago! but anyway.
Now the question is: at this level (PGY-2 applying for fellowship) how much should I care about the tier of the journal my work is going to? I can get this project published (in a "low-quality" journal) before the season starts and it will look somewhat nice on my application. Or I can start making the changes and submit later to a better journal, but in this case there's no way in hell that it would be even ready for submission before July or August since I have some difficult rotations coming. In this case, I will have to mention it in my application as ongoing research or whatever which programs might or might not take seriously.
Now this won't be the only research experience in my app, but I've worked on it for months and months to boost my fellowship application and I hate to see it go in vain.
What do you guys think?
I have a chart review project that is almost done and ready to be submitted. It was shown to internal reviewers at my institution and they said it will find its way to a low-tier journal, but if I wanted to submit it to a mid to high-tier journal then I have to make "some" changes. Unfortunately, the changes that they suggested will require me to go through all the charts again to collect extra data points and then repeat the whole data analysis again. That will take months given my current work schedule. It's funny that no one talked about these changes when the project was discussed initially over a year ago! but anyway.
Now the question is: at this level (PGY-2 applying for fellowship) how much should I care about the tier of the journal my work is going to? I can get this project published (in a "low-quality" journal) before the season starts and it will look somewhat nice on my application. Or I can start making the changes and submit later to a better journal, but in this case there's no way in hell that it would be even ready for submission before July or August since I have some difficult rotations coming. In this case, I will have to mention it in my application as ongoing research or whatever which programs might or might not take seriously.
Now this won't be the only research experience in my app, but I've worked on it for months and months to boost my fellowship application and I hate to see it go in vain.
What do you guys think?