Advisor issue?

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I have had the same advisor for a few years now who I thought I had a great relationship with. We often talk at length about our non-academic interests during our meetings in addition to academics. I thought that this person was pretty supportive of me. If your advisor could be your "friend", I would have considered this person a friend. I noticed that he has reached out to other students in regards to research(in his lab) and other opportunities, even though I had expressed interest in research earlier in the year. He did not mention these to me during our meetings as I found out from other students later on. Research in the DO world is important. I am a good student with no red flags. He does his job with me as far as academic advising, but like I said, he does not share extra opportunities with me as he has with others. Did I do something wrong or do I need to start shopping around for another advisor (this person writes LOR, etc).

 

[med_res_]

Talk to him about this. Tell him some students were telling you about research opportunities, are there any open right now? Something along those lines.

 

[ortnakas]

Have you expressed your interest in research to this person?

 

[Goro]

I have had the same advisor for a few years now who I thought I had a great relationship with. We often talk at length about our non-academic interests during our meetings in addition to academics. I thought that this person was pretty supportive of me. If your advisor could be your "friend", I would have considered this person a friend. I noticed that he has reached out to other students in regards to research(in his lab) and other opportunities, even though I had expressed interest in research earlier in the year. He did not mention these to me during our meetings as I found out from other students later on. Research in the DO world is important. I am a good student with no red flags. He does his job with me as far as academic advising, but like I said, he does not share extra opportunities with me as he has with others. Did I do something wrong or do I need to start shopping around for another advisor (this person writes LOR, etc).

Stop taking it personally, for starters. Offhand, the first reason I could think of is that you don't have any lab experience, and the other students do.

 

[BorntobeDO?]

I have had the same advisor for a few years now who I thought I had a great relationship with. We often talk at length about our non-academic interests during our meetings in addition to academics. I thought that this person was pretty supportive of me. If your advisor could be your "friend", I would have considered this person a friend. I noticed that he has reached out to other students in regards to research(in his lab) and other opportunities, even though I had expressed interest in research earlier in the year. He did not mention these to me during our meetings as I found out from other students later on. Research in the DO world is important. I am a good student with no red flags. He does his job with me as far as academic advising, but like I said, he does not share extra opportunities with me as he has with others. Did I do something wrong or do I need to start shopping around for another advisor (this person writes LOR, etc).

Just ask him if he has any research you can do with him. If you get along so well, this won't be a problem at all. Why are people so scared of talking? Seriously stop being a wallflower son, you want something go get it. Nobody knows what you want except you.

P.s. - I have had 5 advisors since I began med school with 2 of them being fired, one quitting, one was someone with a masters in education (I did swap that one) and none of them having research. No idea why you would want to switch.

 

[DO2015CA]

Just ask him if he has any research you can do with him. If you get along so well, this won't be a problem at all. Why are people so scared of talking? Seriously stop being a wallflower son, you want something go get it. Nobody knows what you want except you.

P.s. - I have had 5 advisors since I began med school with 2 of them being fired, one quitting, one was someone with a masters in education (I did swap that one) and none of them having research. No idea why you would want to switch.

FYIW I have always had the best mentor... SDN. Pretty much toss every piece of advice I get from my school assigned one in the trash on my way out of their office.

 

[ProfAnon]

Stop taking it personally, for starters. Offhand, the first reason I could think of is that you don't have any lab experience, and the other students do.

Very true; with a project that has time constraints, especially one that is a bench project that requires a certain skill set, you could easily eat up all the time trying to train the students, plus inexperienced students also require a LOT more "babysitting".

Another very real possibility, because research is becoming more important, I have found that some students have aggressively sought out opportunities with faculty well before the faculty themselves may have been looking for individuals. That has definitely happened to me many times. I think others may have been upset because they did not know the opportunity existed. I also don't think, from a faculty perspective, we would give preference to someone simply because they were an advisee. I think the OP may be reading too much into this perceived slight.

 

[alprazoslam]

My adviser was a research PhD who tried to give us all board advice on a test he never took or knew anything about

 

[druncleauntie]

I have had the same advisor for a few years now who I thought I had a great relationship with. We often talk at length about our non-academic interests during our meetings in addition to academics. I thought that this person was pretty supportive of me. If your advisor could be your "friend", I would have considered this person a friend. I noticed that he has reached out to other students in regards to research(in his lab) and other opportunities, even though I had expressed interest in research earlier in the year. He did not mention these to me during our meetings as I found out from other students later on. Research in the DO world is important. I am a good student with no red flags. He does his job with me as far as academic advising, but like I said, he does not share extra opportunities with me as he has with others. Did I do something wrong or do I need to start shopping around for another advisor (this person writes LOR, etc).

Its possible that he forgot to mention the research to you. You can ask him if there are available opportunities or if he has any colleagues with research opportunities.


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