Are med schools interested in non-science publications?

[RichardSM]

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Considering going down the medical route in a few years after a post-bacc, but my degree is in Stage Management and in history. All that aside, I have a research paper that I wrote (potentially) about to be published in a small journal. It's historical research that mainly focuses on social consciousness of racism in America in 1949 through the lens of a Broadway production.
I know it's far flung from the scientific research a lot of applicants are up to, but the question remains, are medical schools at all interested in a student being published if the publication is humanities based?

 

[Cakepop514]

DEFINITELY tell them about it!

 

[Goro]

A publication is a publication! As long as it's not self-published, or in a vanity/predatory journal.

 

[Cornfed101]

or in a vanity/predatory journal.

Are we talking like the National Enquirer?

 

[Goro]

Are we talking like the National Enquirer?

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[LizzyM]

I'm guessing South Pacific?

It will count for very little as it is not indicative of scientific/medical research productivity which is what publications are generally used to measure.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

While the paper may not provide an enchanted evening, I wouldnt quite wash its value out of the applicant’s quite completely. What of we got? Well we aint got science research but we do have a publication, which only 25% have ANY pub, presentation, or poster. It is still worth an EC and can add value as part of any diversity essay.

Yeah definitely list it. Most people didn’t care about my math pubs and my pub on immigration law, but they occasionally made for talking points. I seriously doubt they had very much impact though.

 

[LizzyM]

Stuff that gets talked about at interview is often not what got you the interview but what is novel because it makes the interview more interesting for the interviewer.