basic science AND clinical research?

[thebillsfan]

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is there any advantage to doing both basic science AND clinical research during your UG years? im doing basic science right now, and will have done it for a few years. would picking up some clinical research be a good use of my time or should i try and find other stuff to do?

and also, is clinical research considered research as well as clinical experience?

thanks guys.

 

[tiedyeddog]

is there any advantage to doing both basic science AND clinical research during your UG years? im doing basic science right now, and will have done it for a few years. would picking up some clinical research be a good use of my time or should i try and find other stuff to do?

and also, is clinical research considered research as well as clinical experience?

thanks guys.

Are you going for an MD/PhD? Will clinical research be your only time spent around patients?

 

[thebillsfan]

no, i dont think im doing a phd. maybe an mph...and no, clinical research would not be my only time around patients, i'm also an emt and plan on doing some shadowing and things like that.

 

[besmart]

is there any advantage to doing both basic science AND clinical research during your UG years? im doing basic science right now, and will have done it for a few years. would picking up some clinical research be a good use of my time or should i try and find other stuff to do?

and also, is clinical research considered research as well as clinical experience?

thanks guys.

I did both. As far as advantage goes, I don't know. I just wanted to know how to do clinical research when I become a doctor.

 

[tiedyeddog]

I did both. As far as advantage goes, I don't know. I just wanted to know how to do clinical research when I become a doctor.

This would be a super great reason to do it. If you go into academics you will likely do some sort of clinical research. I would say it won't help in applications, considering you already have basic research experience and patient contact.

However, it is an experience and anything you can talk with your interviewers about is a plus. Could be a fun experience and could lead to good recommendations, also.

 

[besmart]

This would be a super great reason to do it. If you go into academics you will likely do some sort of clinical research. I would say it won't help in applications, considering you already have basic research experience and patient contact.

However, it is an experience and anything you can talk with your interviewers about is a plus. Could be a fun experience and could lead to good recommendations, also.

I just don't want to be one of those medical students who go onto residency not knowing how to do anything beyond provide this and that information for a medical disease. From my experiences, the best residents are not just the ones with the best medical knowledge, but the ones that know how to do basic things. I remember hearing one resident talking about how it took him FOUR hours to do his first hospital admissions by himself. I can't imagine his superiors being happy with how long that took.

If I wanted to ask an attending to be apart of his research projects, I don't want to be a clueless idiot. The same goes for basic research. If I'm reading a slide as a pathologist and I find something unusall, I would like to try and investigate it. So how do you apply for grants, what research techniques would be needed, etc, etc.

It basically comes down to not wanting to be a clueless idiot.

 

[WeAreNotRobots]

is there any advantage to doing both basic science AND clinical research during your UG years?

advantageous for what? it depends.

when applying, med schools don't care what type of research you do. you can do even psyche or econ research, and it's still research. so no real advantage there.

if you are applying for md/phd programs, you can be involved with both as a way to demonstrate your commitment/interest to pursuing such a dual degree program. so some advantage there.

 

[docontheroc]

is there any advantage to doing both basic science AND clinical research during your UG years? im doing basic science right now, and will have done it for a few years. would picking up some clinical research be a good use of my time or should i try and find other stuff to do?

and also, is clinical research considered research as well as clinical experience?

thanks guys.

yes, yes, and yes

good to see both sides of the research spectrum, and if you can, throw in some translational stuff too...then you'll be way ahead of the curve