AMCAS Work/Activities Hours for Publications and Presentations

[EmpathMan]

Hi all, I just wanted to check to see how many hours I am supposed to put for my entries regarding Publications and Presentations for research? I really am not quite sure what I should put, do I just do 0 like awards? Thanks for your time, excuse me if this has been asked a lot.

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[DocForP]

I have the same question. Since the research section covered my hours that led to the publication and presentations, I put zero so they don't overlap.

 

[premedlol]

just put 0

 

[Espadaleader]

For my publication I put in the same amount of hours I spent on the research project. Yes, the hours overlap but of course they will ynderstand

 

[EmpathMan]

@Espadaleader, I would do that but under my Research/Lab entry, I didn't have just one project so I don't think I could put the same hours 🙁 I'll probs have to just go with 0

 

[EmpathMan]

Sorry for bump, but any other opinions ?

 

[Catalystik]

Using 0 or 1 hour is suitable so you aren't double counting the hours. If you have the space, a comment in the narrative about "Actual hours of involvement included with Research entry" would be nice.

 

[box8psych]

I put down the amount of hours I spent at the conference that I was presenting at. I had two one-day conferences (7 hours each) and one weekend-long conference (20 hours). I did mention a sentence or two about what I did at the conference outside of the presentation as well.

 

[Noggin]

Using 0 or 1 hour is suitable so you aren't double counting the hours. If you have the space, a comment in the narrative about "Actual hours of involvement included with Research entry" would be nice.

Catalystik so would that mean if you have one entry dedicated to your research description, and another entry dedicated to your award/poster presentation from that research, you can include total number of hours for the research description but only add 1 or 0 hours for the award/poster presentation? Would it be bad if I just listed 300 hours for each even though they are basically the same activity?

 

[Catalystik]

Catalystik so would that mean if you have one entry dedicated to your research description, and another entry dedicated to your award/poster presentation from that research, you can include total number of hours for the research description but only add 1 or 0 hours for the award/poster presentation? Would it be bad if I just listed 300 hours for each even though they are basically the same activity?

If you know the number of hours devoted to the poster, you can use that number instead of a 0 or 1, but many don't keep track and would have trouble accurately reporting it.

If you list 300 for each activity, that implies a total of 600 hours. If true, that's fine.

 

[catzzz88]

Catalystik,

What is the best way you have seen a student list publications reported on AMCAS? I am putting it as its own activity, under "Publications" and titling the experience as "AUTHOR, NAMES JOURNALS HERE," but I have so many publications, abstracts, and presentations that I cannot possibly fit it all into 700 characters if I am using proper citations. The problem is that I absolutely cannot put the others that wont fit into their own experience because I am full, with 15 significant experiences already used!

I have a few options:
1) Leave out abstracts/presentations and only include the 3 full publications with proper citations.
2) Minimize the citations of the 3 publications and add in 1 - 2 sentences about the published abstracts/presentations that I gave at a conference.
3) Write in complete sentences and provide PubMedIDs for the 3 main publications in parentheses, then have more room to include the abstracts, presentations, and a few other posters where my research was featured, but I was not presenting.

If you have a specific format in mind, would you mind giving me an example? I don't want to make it difficult for ADCOMs to figure out what I have accomplished, but I also don't want to sell myself short and leave out the presentations and other abstracts... all of which I worked hard on. I just don't know what to do!

Any advice is welcome, not just from Catalystik! Or maybe even LizzyM ! Anyone who has seen these applications before!
Best,
C

 

[Catalystik]

Catalystik,

What is the best way you have seen a student list publications reported on AMCAS? I am putting it as its own activity, under "Publications" and titling the experience as "AUTHOR, NAMES JOURNALS HERE," but I have so many publications, abstracts, and presentations that I cannot possibly fit it all into 700 characters if I am using proper citations. The problem is that I absolutely cannot put the others that wont fit into their own experience because I am full, with 15 significant experiences already used!

I have a few options:
1) Leave out abstracts/presentations and only include the 3 full publications with proper citations.
2) Minimize the citations of the 3 publications and add in 1 - 2 sentences about the published abstracts/presentations that I gave at a conference.
3) Write in complete sentences and provide PubMedIDs for the 3 main publications in parentheses, then have more room to include the abstracts, presentations, and a few other posters where my research was featured, but I was not presenting.

If you have a specific format in mind, would you mind giving me an example? I don't want to make it difficult for ADCOMs to figure out what I have accomplished, but I also don't want to sell myself short and leave out the presentations and other abstracts... all of which I worked hard on. I just don't know what to do!

Any advice is welcome, not just from Catalystik! Or maybe even LizzyM ! Anyone who has seen these applications before!
Best,
C

As long as you provide enough information in an abbreviated citation for an interested adcomm to locate your papers, you'll be fine. To save space, I am in favor of only listing the most prestigious format via which you shared your data with the world, and then making brief mention of posters/presentations/abstracts dealing with the same data, later in the same listing as space allows. Any of the latter that took place in campus venues can be left out or mentioned in the Research space if you still have room there.

Examples: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showpost.php?p=12686778&postcount=13

 

[catzzz88]

Thank you! Much appreciated! I will follow this advice!