Does Research Need to be Medically-Related for Residency Apps?

[Earl Simmons]

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Quick questions: Does research done as a medical student need to be medically-related for residency application purposes and is non-medically related research (ex. social science, humanities) viewed differently?

I know as a pre-medical student any and all research is great. However, I don't know how things change and what the expectations are once in medical school.

Thank you in advance.

 

[qw098]

Research in your field is definitely what PDs are looking for. However, if you truly enjoy doing research in these other fields, pubs (any field) will always beat out no pubs.

 

[Earl Simmons]

Thanks! Anyone else care to chime in? I haven't seem a post related to this topic before, so I'm surprised by the lack of responses.

 

[Merely]

Very simply, research in your field is better than research in psychology or whatever you plan on doing. Research in psychology is better than no research at all.

 

[repititionition]

Health services, etc., research is also valued (though its weight varies by specialty. In IM, for example, some programs will view this with as much weight as work done in the sciences. Other specialties... they won't care at all.