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Hi everyone. This is my first post and I don't frequent many forums so I apologize for breaking any regularly upheld norms/general rules of posting. Please feel free to inform me of any helpful posting tips.
Anyways, I'm a recent IU graduate (Neuroscience B.S. if anyone's curious) planning on applying this upcoming summer. I've never held an RA position or done any work in an actual lab - but was curious if it's appropriate to list experience with retroactive data abstraction as "clinical research" experience. I performed "retroactive data abstraction", which requires a bit more analysis than regular abstraction (for example, I often had to interpret limited amounts of charting to assign what I thought was the most appropriate stroke scale for said patient at the time in question). Also if you're feeling generous - any tips on getting involved with research as a postgrad would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Anyways, I'm a recent IU graduate (Neuroscience B.S. if anyone's curious) planning on applying this upcoming summer. I've never held an RA position or done any work in an actual lab - but was curious if it's appropriate to list experience with retroactive data abstraction as "clinical research" experience. I performed "retroactive data abstraction", which requires a bit more analysis than regular abstraction (for example, I often had to interpret limited amounts of charting to assign what I thought was the most appropriate stroke scale for said patient at the time in question). Also if you're feeling generous - any tips on getting involved with research as a postgrad would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!