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Does anybody have data on what percentage of residents took a research year by specialty? I'm an M1 trying to do a surgical specialty and everybody is already telling me to take a research year...
Assuming a T20 with no prior research and strong departments in most specialties, what then?Agree, this is absolutely dependent on what school you go to, as well as whether you are entering school with any prior publications. The threshold of what you need will be completely different depending on whether you're coming from HMS vs a state med school that doesn't have a residency program in your chosen field.
Still school and specialty dependent. But if "everyone" is telling you to do a research year, and everyone includes the PD at your home institution, then you probably should.Assuming a T20 with no prior research and strong departments in most specialties, what then?
I generally agree with this, with the caveat that if you are aiming for a highly competitive specialty and your school does NOT have a home program, that may tilt the scales even more in favor of doing the research year just to have time to make connections (in addition to publish)No specialty absolutely requires a research year. That being said, you do need a decent amount of research for competitive specialties and if you can get it done in 4 years (yes, it's possible), then why take a research year? If you can't, then you have to critically evaluate your own application and see if you need to take a research year to "catch up."
Look at charting the outcomes. Any specialty where the average matched applicant have 20+ pubs/abstracts/posters will potentially need a research year (which includes most surgical subspecialities and derm), as most medical schools would not allot enough time in their regular curriculum to do that much research. The exception is if you're at a medical school that already a lots 8-9 months or more of research time into the standard 4 year program, which is usually only limited to a small proportion of top research schools.Does anybody have data on what percentage of residents took a research year by specialty? I'm an M1 trying to do a surgical specialty and everybody is already telling me to take a research year...