Originally posted by Farrah
Hold up, you got 20 publications done? How in the world did you do that? And you said four years later? Did you do this all in undergrad?
"How in the world did you do that?" That is the same exact thing my gf asks me, and what i ask myself sometimes. To answer your question about if I did this all as an undergrad. No. I did 12 of them during my 3 years as a undergrad junior, senior, super senior. After that I graduated, and I did 6 more. Currently I have 1 that will be published by the time i apply, and the last one is in preparation.
To tell you the truth, I was LUCKY. I found the right professor, and the professor found the right undergrad. He is a maverick of a researcher/physician so his lab works in all kinds of fields. Our big thing is pathology, and testing, which were my first two publications. He was currently writing a textbook, and i helped out by gathering papers. He figured that i was working hard to find these papers so he let me write the appendices for the book. As time progressed we did work in Infectious Diseases, Diabetes, Biomedical Engineering, and various other subjects. All in all, 6 were as first author, 6 as second author, and the remainder being 3rd or 4th authorships. (19)
The 20th one, the book, may yield more, who knows. I'm curently writing two chapters, and will be co-author for another chapter.
Beyond research though, I actually have an additional publication. I recently wrote a manual for the US Army, and continue to update it. Its totally unrelating to medicine, but hey, its something to do I guess.
Like i said, go out and find opportunities, since they usually don't go and find you. I want to point out again, that i pretty much had to leave a message on 10 different answering machines, and only one person replied! Its a bunch of luck, or even divine intervention if you're a religous person. Will it get me into med school? I have NO idea. I hope it does, and I wish it was a definative YES, but realistically, who the heck knows! Doh!
