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    MS1 interested in plastics but no home program

    Hi! I am currently a M1 and interested in plastics. My institution only has 1 board certified plastic surgeon (no program) who does not do much research–if any at all. ENT at my school is huge and is in charge of almost all facial plastics and other plastic related surgeries. I know I'm thinking...
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    Premed Student Research

    If you’re a premed undergraduate Black male student, I would love to speak with you. I am a doctoral student conducting research on the premed experience of Black males. My focus is to understand how these experiences influence you to stay or leave the premed track. Participation would involve a...
  3. D

    Machine learning research as med student/resident

    Hi, I’m currently one year out from college and am working as an applied ML researcher in industry. I’m starting the med school application process now but am having doubts about whether I’ll be able to use my technical background if I continue down the MD route. Although I certainly want to be...
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    Sending Out Cold Emails

    Hello! I'm a recent B.S. graduate that's trying to look for work in a research lab in the interim of trying to get into a masters, then further on Med School. It took me about six years (an extra two years after I walked at commencement) to officially graduate because of financial issues and...
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    Medical Student Mental Health Research Project, IRB-approved (seeking participants for ~10 min survey, Amazon gift card raffle!)

    Hello! I am leading a research project focusing on mental health and possible barriers to seeking help among medical students. For this study, interested participants/you (medical students) would fill out an online, confidential Qualtrics survey in the fall of 2021 and then another one in the...
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    What are some of the difficult experiences you have faced when trying to publish or collaborate on psychology research?

    Hello everyone! What are some of the difficult experiences you have faced when trying to publish or collaborate on psychology research? What did you learn from those experiences? My purpose for writing this is not to complain or be negative, but to heal and learn from these experiences. Here...
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    Hi, I was browsing through the forums and saw some discussion about basic research being more valued than clinical but wanted to know if this was true. I know it is harder to publish in basic research so that would make sense, but I was wondering if it would improve my chances if I added a basic...
  8. reslmc

    Specialties that prefer field-specific research & M2 uncertainty

    Fresh MS2 here - I keep hearing M4's (and some M3's) saying to not worry about being unsure of a speciality choice. However, I know there are certain fields that would definitely prefer to see speciality-specific research going into residency (from what i hear some (not all) include...
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    Please take a gander at my game plan for clinical experience, if you don't mind. Questions about research and clinical experience.

    Howdy! My sophomore year of undergrad is about to start and I'm getting started on my clinical experience. This semester, I am in a hospital system volunteer program based in the city of my university. The program has a ton of different volunteer jobs available, so you can choose a different one...
  10. HufflepuffGal1922

    Other OT-Related Information Hairstyling/Hair Grooming as an Intervention in Occupational Therapy Survey

    Hello All, My name is Rajaé Jones and I am an occupational therapy doctorate student at the University of St. Augustine at the San Marcos, CA campus. I am conducting research with occupational therapy practitioners and occupational therapy students and looking to gather information on their...
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    What is appropriate/inappropriate on an M1 resume (fresh M1 trying to get involved in research)?

    Hello! I am a new M1 student and am interested in getting involved in research with a specific physician affiliated with my institution. I plan to speak to them soon and to have my resume on hand in case they ask for it before deciding if they are willing to work with me. Changing it over from...
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    Could I use this high school experience for either the Challenge prompt or Failure/Feedback prompt?

    Hey everyone, I volunteered in a research lab during the summer of 2015, which was the summer before my senior year of high school. I initially came into the lab wanting to produce a project that I can use in the Intel Science Fair. On the first day, the PI introduced me to everyone in the lab...
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    MD Incoming MS1 - How do I maximize my chances at matching into a top IM residency in the Northeast?

    Incoming MS1. Apologies in advance if this post sounds neurotic since I am asking for advice pretty early in the process. I was a really low-performing student (~2 GPA) in HS, and would not have made it into a medical school without doing research before ugrad started. Hoping to gain some...
  14. MHA1999

    MFM Gestational Diabetes Study

    I’m doing an internship in organizational management and I’m currently working with a team of MFM providers. I will be assisting in tracking the amount of time the 6 physicians are using to manage the diabetic population in the office. Currently there are 6 Maternal Fetal Medicine providers who...
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    Med Student Interested in Veteran-EMed Research

    I'm a med student with a background in the military (nonmedical) and afterward working as an EMT. I find both these worlds/populations fascinating and have been trying to conceive of or get involved in research at the intersection between the two, but have been thus far unsuccessful. I've often...
  16. nidgehog

    Canadian Graduate Student worrying about this application cycle

    Hey everyone! Hope you're all well. I'm a new member here and was wondering if I could get some more insight into the US MD application process. So a little background about me: I am a Canadian citizen who attended a Canadian university for undergrad and also currently attending a Canadian...
  17. mdwpsyd

    PhD/PsyD Psychotherapy and depressive symptom trajectories among VA patients: Comparing dose-effect and good-enough level models

    Interesting research that rings pretty true for me. What do you think? CITATION Lee, A. A., Sripada, R. K., Hale, A. C., Ganoczy, D., Trivedi, R. B., Arnow, B., & Pfeiffer, P. N. (2021). Psychotherapy and depressive symptom trajectories among VA patients: Comparing dose-effect and good-enough...
  18. TragicalDrFaust

    Dissection work study vs pre study over the summer for a low C OMS-1 interested in psych

    I’m not a good student. I’ve gotten nearly straight C and low C’s at that. I’m leaning towards giving up the dissection work study (20 hours/week) and putting my efforts towards getting some extra board study in as well as making sure I have time to relax. I didn’t take time for myself over...
  19. pdivakaruni26

    Opinion on research assistant position opportunity

    Hello all. So a few days ago I had a meeting with a physician for a research assistant position for his clinical trial. It's not in a typical wet lab, but my role consists of looking through patient EHR health records and their lab work and comparing that data with them after their procedure is...
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    Focus Group on Patient Communication

    Focus Group on Medical Communication Are you a medical student interested in patient communication? Do you want to to develop your communication skills? This study on medical communication could be a chance for you to engage with this important aspect of clinical practice. I am conducting...
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    MD & DO 20-30 min healthcare operations research survey for $30 Amazon gift card (MS4s only)

    We are looking for MS4s from US medical schools to participate in an IRB-approved nationwide study on how different operational designs may affect the speed and quality of patient care delivery. We would greatly appreciate your participation in our anonymous survey, which we expect will take...
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    How to List In-Progress Review Articles?

    I am looking for input on if/how I should be listing an in-progress review article in AMCAS Work and Activities section, writing about it in secondaries, etc. Some info: I am 4th author of 8 I created all the figures, did some editing, and filled in holes wherever more information or further...
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    MD Research Prep... or not?

    I'm starting M1 in August and I am considering taking an online course to learn R or another data analysis tool. I would like to pursue research fairly early in med school (maybe wishful thinking?) but I didn't gain much data analysis experience in my undergrad research. Would it be beneficial...
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    carolyn kuckein research fellowship

    This is a long shot but anyone else apply to the fellowship still waiting to hear back? They said they’d announce awardees yesterday. Not sure if they just aren’t sending out rejections yet.
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    Creating a School List

    I am working on my school list and I am interested in linguistics and medicine as well as research. I wanted to make sure I am not missing any schools. Does anyone know of medical schools with a year out program for research? Does anyone know of schools that have extra curriculars, classes...
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    What kind of research should I be looking to do for best matching success?

    M1 - My research interests are in Psychoradiology, realistically speaking I don't know if I would be able to get involved into this sort of research while in med school. I know this field is new and probably needs a lot of effort, which I don't mind placing. Yet, I am interested in getting some...
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    NSSR Masters Program or part-time RA job

    HI all! Thank you in advance for your assistance. I spent this year applying to Psychology Masters, Psychology Post-Bacc, and Pre-Med Post-Bacc programs (to pursue Research Psychiatry). My background is in the Social Sciences (high undergrad GPA, only 1 intro psych and 1 intro neuroscience...
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    HELP: Clinical experience vs post-bacc for gap years?

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    How and what research experiences do you have in medical school?

    Hey Everyone, I have been accepted to medical school and already thinking about getting into residencies 😂 . I know research is important and I was wondering how students get involved in research, how do they choose the topic of their research if they have no background info, and how do so many...
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    Research Importance in Medical School

    Hi all! I'm an incoming MS1 at a top 10 research-oriented school. I was wondering how important research will be moving forward in the medical pipeline. I'm asking because: 1) I'm not aiming for uber competitive specialties - I think I'd like to do primary care or emergency medicine since...
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    Research position after not matching

    Hi guys, I applied for pathology this cycle and found out I didn’t match today. I had some red flags on my application like failed rotations and LOAs while I did soul searching. Anyways I graduated from a DO school in December so I’m sick of vacation by now and want to go back to work. I...
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    Research, clinical, non-clinical, EC, and volunteer hours

    How many research, clinical, non-clinical, EC, and volunteer hours should I have to get into competitive schools like NYU or the like? I know the obvious answer is a lot or "many" but how many hours (roughly) would you say the average applicant applying to competitive schools has? How many...
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    Does Virtual Research Count?

    Hello all! I have been doing research for almost a year now but I have never set foot in a lab due to covid. My research revolves around reading various literature, filtering information, assessing the quality of the paper, etc. to hopefully publish a systematic review in the future. I am just...
  34. tf9813

    Virtual Reality

    Hello, I am doing a project on virtual reality for my masters program. My topic is on how can virtual reality be used to teach and how can it be transferred to medical education. If anyone can share anything on their experience with virtual reality being used as a teaching tool or just anything...
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    How to increase chances for landing a competitive GI fellowship?

    How much will not going to a top residency hurt me for fellowship applications?
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    Johns Hopkins Orthopaedics Research Fellowship (Summer 2021 for M1s)

    The Johns Hopkins Orthopedic Surgery Department invites current M1s to apply for a funded 8-10 week clinical research fellowship during the summer of 2021. Silberstein Pediatric Orthopaedics Research Fellowship Location: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD Preceptors: Paul D. Sponseller...
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    Bad Grades + Post-Bacc + Gap Year Advice

    Hi everyone happy new year! Looking for advice on how to spend my gap year(s), fixing holes in my app, and if this post-bacc plan is good. One main issue is grades, especially sGPA, so thought I'd do a post-bacc in my city? The undergrad classes this post-bacc offers are mostly classes I've...
  38. moralis

    Applying to NIH SIP (2021)

    Hi everyone, I have a couple questions about applying to NIH SIP. 1. I have heard a lot that you should email PI’s there rather than simply going through the application. For those who have done it before— is this true? If so, should I email PI’s before or after submitting an application? 2...
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    Low GPA Waiver Letter?

    Hi everyone, I submitted most of my post-bacc applications and I just got my first rejection letter ... got me thinking I should have addressed my low GPA in my personal statement more. For the CAS system, they calculated my overall GPA to be 3.11 .... I didn't anticipate this, since I went to...
  40. moralis

    A hypothetical question—

    The following I've always wondered about— Let's say there is this scenario: Someone starts out as a student interested in both basic research and practicing medicine. He learns about MD/PhD programs, which allow him to do just this, and successfully matriculates into one. He continues the track...
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