'AMCAS Activities' Question, 2010 cycle

[ErikLen]

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Hey everyone,

I had two straightforward questions for which answers have been quite unclear in various resources/threads:

1) If you listed one of your AMCAS activities as 'clinical research' you previously completed, and this research is leading (eventually) to a publication, should you write in the description section something about how it will be submitted for publishing in the future, though it is not clear when?

2) If you are a senior, and conduction a year of research prior to medical school, should you list the research you are doing next year, though you will not be starting until 1-2 months? How does this work?

Thanks a lot for your thoughts and consideration

Erik

 

[LizzyM]

Hey everyone,

I had two straightforward questions for which answers have been quite unclear in various resources/threads:

1) If you listed one of your AMCAS activities as 'clinical research' you previously completed, and this research is leading (eventually) to a publication, should you write in the description section something about how it will be submitted for publishing in the future, though it is not clear when?

2) If you are a senior, and conduction a year of research prior to medical school, should you list the research you are doing next year, though you will not be starting until 1-2 months? How does this work?

You can, in the description, state that a manuscript is in preparation.

For item 2, see my sig line. However, many secondaries will have a question about what you are doing during a gap year and, of course, this is often an opening question at an interview.