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[mehc012]

1) I'm only interested in applying MD/PhD. Since my research experiences will be detailed in the research section, should I still include them in the 15 activities list? They are very significant activities.

2) I participated in an engineering design-team-ish activity for 2.5 years, leading it in the last year. We have 1 conference publication. Is this considered research? According to our school's undergrad research office, this apparently counts as undergraduate research, but I'm not sure!

3) I also participated in a summer design activity (fellowship, formally). We designed a medical device and presented it to a company. Is this considered research? I can't talk much about it, because of non-disclosure. Actually, what should I do to describe something I can't release most details about?

Thanks!

I dunno...maybe if you gave us more details about your non-disclosable research we could be more helpful. After all, it's not really disclosure if it's on an anonymous forum!


But for srs, if you have a publication and your research dept agrees that it's research, you're not going to be hurting yourself to include it as research. As for your fellowship...just put the fellowship itself down as an award (if there was competition to get it) and describe the activities as generically as you are required to.

 

[mehc012]

Unfortunately, it does count as disclosure, which nixes our patentability outside the US!

We were given a problem to solve in the medical field. We did a lit search for possible solutions and existing patents, and came up with a design. Then we prototyped it and did some preliminary testing. There was enough data for one graph.

Yeah, sorry...that part was a joke/sarcasm. But it sounds cool?

 

[MDPhDGuy]

Had the same question. Am in the midst of putting together my activities, and describing my research activities as a significant activity will just be a summary of my research essay.

 

[markconn]

Related question - having finished a gap year to focus on research, I have collected a good number of abstracts and submitted publications. Would it be reasonable to discuss my different labs in their own activity, then have an additional activity that says

"I have co-authored 10 abstracts (5 first author), with selected citations below. A complete list citations is detailed in my research experience essay"?

 

[Member011]

The research essay prompt has this at the end: If your research resulted in a publication on which you were an author, please provide the full citation in the Work/Activities section of your application.

So it looks like they want that info in work activities, not in your research statement.