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Current PGY-2 at a top 5 Northeast residency program, looking to go in to pulm/CC. Believe it or not, I'm having a great deal of difficulty finding any relevant research projects despite being at a research institution. My goal in the future is actually to become an intensivist at a community or academic affiliated hospital +/- pulmonary practice (more likely down the road), but I have no real desire to remain in an academic research institution. I wouldn't mind working with residents as I like teaching and could see myself in the clinical educator role. For those reasons, I don't particularly need to get into a competitive academic fellowship, and would be happy at a program that provided me with good clinical training and lots of procedural experience. Assuming I can get decent LORs from clinicians I work with in a non-research setting, will I have much difficulty matching into a program that can get me what I'm interested in without doing research? Or should I work harder at finding a project and maybe do something more peripherally related to pulm/CC?