research

I'm strongly considering doing a research year between third and fourth year (currently an MS3). I know about HHMI/Doris Duke/Sarnoff/CRTP. It sounds like Doris Duke has limited the amount of grants it offers to medical students to be mainly of the international type now. I was wondering if...

I'm a current dental student and thinking of specializing in periodontics. I know that almost all perio programs require research, but was wondering if anyone knows what kind of research? Are the topics limited to dentistry? Or can the topic be on anything dental/medical related? If you're...

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Hi everyone, I am still an undergrad (starting my junior year in August). I am interested in a few different fields of medicine ( I know this can very well change in med school, but for now I am simply curious and want more info). With psychiatry, is it common for psychiatrists to practice and...

So I'm a rising senior, and I've been in my lab (really small, no grad students, a couple undergrads including me, and the PI) for the past year. I've been focusing more on getting my GPA up over the semesters, so I've only been coming in regularly for the summers. My PI is super nice and...

Hey guys, Spending the summer between MS1 and MS2 doing research in a competitive surgical subspecialty at a prestigious institution down south. I'm shadowing some of the surgeons in the department and was wondering how do I leave a great impression while shadowing and not just be in the way...

So I am senior now and will be graduating after next semester. I have >1000 hours of research at 3 different labs (stayed at each lab for 1 year including summers), with the most recent one with >400 hours (9 months including summers). However, I do not have any publications... I was going to...

Hi! I am working on a study with parents, teachers, and medical students for online data collection and I am trying to figure out the best ways to recruit. Anyone have any ideas/experience recruiting these groups? I cannot afford MTurk or Qualtrics panel or anything like that. Any suggestions...

Is this an acceptable email to send to faculty when inquiring about research opportunities in their field? Dear Dr. ___, Thank you again for setting up my shadowing experience in ____. I found the experience very helpful. I'd like to continue gaining exposure to ____ and am interested in...

Hi everyone, I graduated college in May and have moved back home to study for the GRE. After I finish, I'm going to take a gap year and work. During that time I'd like to do research in the town I'm in, preferably in a university (there are three universities around me that have psych phd...

Hi! I am interested in psychiatry residency and would like to match in California, where I am from. I am wondering, with my step score of 227 (a little above the average psych step score....I think average was 224 according the charting the outcomes), and someone being from an allopathic U.S...

I just started helping running participants with a psychology lab on campus. I'm hoping to stick with this lab for a few years and take on my own research project at some point (over the summer, directed studies for course credit, or for my honours thesis) because I'm really interested in the...

I'm a rising senior and I attend a top 20 institution, but I live super nearby so I just commute. My GPA is 3.9+. My MCAT scores come out next month, but I know I'll prob get above the 90th percentile (On all three AAMC practice exams I was above the 95th (I took them under test-like...

Hi, I was filling out the AMCAS application and was confused on how to list my published abstracts. I have four published abstracts that were presented at an international conference, BUT I was not the presenting author. Additionally, the abstracts have several associated authors (10+), so I am...

Hello I am a current undergrad premed student. I always hear about how important it is to have papers published in scientific journals if you want to be accepted into med school. I was wondering about the efficacy of submitting an academic paper to a jounal as an undergrad by yourself. Of course...

Hello everyone I wanted some opinions on what would make the most sense for what I should do for my next two gap years coming up. I just graduated with my bachelors in biomedical sciences and have yet to take the mcat so I intend to spend some time working on that, in addition I am independent...

Dr. Mike Parent from the University of Texas at Austin and Dr. Karen O’Brien from the University of Maryland would like to invite you to participate in a study on approaches to working with death and dying in clinical contexts, among mental health care professionals—ALL mental health care...

I'm going to have between 200 and 300 hours of research by time I apply because I'm in my schools undègrad research program. No publications, but will do a presentation for senior assignment in May 2019. I'm planning on starting volunteering next month and planned on having ~200 hours...

I just finished my MS1 year and have begun working in a pretty prestigious neurosurgery lab doing bench research for the summer with a stipend given by my school. However, I have started to dread going there every day. I'm extremely bored of the research and hate the working environment in my...

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I just got my MCAT score back so I will repost my previous thread with my score if anyone wants to help. I am greatly interested in a research focused program given my extensive research experience in undergrad, so if you have any suggestions please do share :) GPA: 3.95 (One non A class in...

Hi All – I am looking for some advice. I wasn’t sure which forum to post this in, but I thought this group might be able to provide the best insight. I am currently in a MPH-Epidemiology program and will graduate in May of next year (I have a B.A. in Psychology). I also work as a research...

I'm starting MS1 in August, and I really want to get a head start on research and figuring out what potential specialties interest me so that I don't go into MS1 as blind. I realize it's early and I'd honestly rather be doing something fun this summer, but since I'm stuck at home anyway, I...

I will be starting as a freshman at UCLA this year and I have heard many terrifying rumors about the competitiveness and weed out classes. Any advice from other Pre Meds as to how to overcome this competitiveness? Tips and Tricks would be greatly appreciated. Im also stressed about when to find...

Hi! I recently started a summer research internship, I'm unbelievably lucky to be there and I'm genuinely interested in the project, but I have zero prior experience and I've been feeling super stressed out. I have no idea what the "culture" of working in a lab is like and I can't figure out...

Hi all, I applied MD last year and was accepted to one school, but I turned them down because of personal reasons and to pursue opportunities in my lab at school. My PI at home is extremely accomplished and well-known in the field, but our work is not very clinical (fMRI scans of NASA...

Hi I graduated with a BA in Psych 2 years ago and since then I've been working in clinical settings. I've decided a PhD in Clinical Psychology is the right path for me but I didn't establish the strong research background back in my undergrad days. I earned a 3.85 GPA and my GRE scores are...

Hi there, I'm an Otolaryngology PGY3, trying to decide between Facial Plastics and Neurotology. As part of this decision I was wondering if anyone had any insight into the most important criteria that fellowship programs look for in resident applicants, and are there any material differences...

so my RA keeps saying I’ll get a project but I still haven’t gotten one when I’ve been at this lab for a year now. I’m going into fourth year so I need a publication for some competitive med schools. Idk what else to do

Background: I’m an undergrad accepted to a “reserved seat” program at a Midwestern medical school. I’ll matriculate in August 2019. During my time in undergrad, I’ve had some very negative experiences with science research that make me very hesitant about getting involved with it again during...

Hey all, I'm kind of a second rate applicant, but the one thing I have going for me is research experience. I've worked in two labs over my college career. Lab 1: I worked about 750 hours over six months (I was employed as a full time research assistant.) at an Audiology lab working with a...

Hello, I am in a bit of a dilemma as I am expecting the paper that I have been working on with my postdoc for 1.5 years is probably going to be submitted for reviews in early to mid-June. I was obviously hoping to have it published by now as I will be a co-author, but now that it is in the...

Hello! I'm a 3rd year medical student and I'm looking for a topic to do research in plastic surgery. I've come up with a few topics but i don't feel confident with them. Please drop the suggestions below if you have any.

Hi there, I am looking for a medical expert particularly in Orthopaedics speciality who can conduct a retrospective study on one of our shoulder prosthesis (implant) based on post-market data and submit it to one of the Orthopaedics journals. Thanks and look forward to hearing from the expert...

Hey y'all I've applied to like twenty labs but no reply :( I need a volunteer position, what am I doing wrong??? I already volunteer at one lab, my cgpa is 3.8 and I'm going into my third year. TIA!!

Hello all, I am planning on applying to MS (not MPH) in Biostatistics programs for next fall and am trying to land myself in NYC. Does anyone have any opinions on the quality of the various programs in the city? Which are worth the application? As of now I am aware of programs at Columbia...

So I am applying this cycle and have the option of joining a paid vs unpaid research position. I am not worried about the pay too much as it is going to be minimal. But my question is, do ad coms look at paid vs unpaid positions differently? And how Could this affect my app? Thanks!

This is my first post ever in a forum, so I'm not quite sure how to do this but I'll give it a try. I was planning on starting research in this coming fall semester but I'm unsure about when would be a good time to email them this summer. Should I do it now? Mid-summer? Later than that? Any help...

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So I volunteer at my local hospital and the development team wants to see how the hospital is doing in terms of sanitation and health among the physicians and of the facilities. They brought this to the infectious disease department and in the hospital and they are starting to do it and asked me...