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Hello everyone, I recently decided not to apply this cycle and give myself another 2yrs to do more research before applying to MD-PhD because I realized my passion for MD-PhD quite late and only begun doing research the start of my Junior year.
Now my question is, if I choose a lab for the purpose of maximizing my chances for MD-PhD program, should I choose one that is
1. very Famous PI, currently super hot topics, publish fast and on several CNS paper a year consistently
OR
2. not super famous PI, but does exactly what I hope to do in PhD program, publishes much slower and because my field of interest is small and not so hot, mostly never CNS papers, this PI is also MD-PhD who practices in the field of MD I want to practice, and he is on the admission committee for MD-PhD of my dream school.
I understand for PhD I should do what I love to do instead of chasing hot fields, but is it worth it to spend 2 yrs chasing the hot fields and get a bunch of names on big journals in order to get into MD-PhD to do what I want to do? I am shooting for mostly top 10- top 15 schools and admitted students seem to all be research super stars and I already have 3 friends around me who have first author or co-first author on CNS because they work for 2-3yrs in fields like crispr etc.
Thank you guys for any of your input!
Now my question is, if I choose a lab for the purpose of maximizing my chances for MD-PhD program, should I choose one that is
1. very Famous PI, currently super hot topics, publish fast and on several CNS paper a year consistently
OR
2. not super famous PI, but does exactly what I hope to do in PhD program, publishes much slower and because my field of interest is small and not so hot, mostly never CNS papers, this PI is also MD-PhD who practices in the field of MD I want to practice, and he is on the admission committee for MD-PhD of my dream school.
I understand for PhD I should do what I love to do instead of chasing hot fields, but is it worth it to spend 2 yrs chasing the hot fields and get a bunch of names on big journals in order to get into MD-PhD to do what I want to do? I am shooting for mostly top 10- top 15 schools and admitted students seem to all be research super stars and I already have 3 friends around me who have first author or co-first author on CNS because they work for 2-3yrs in fields like crispr etc.
Thank you guys for any of your input!