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<blockquote data-quote="abdum" data-source="post: 22262622" data-attributes="member: 998970"><p>Hey all,</p><p></p><p>I'm a senior graduating in December from a T20 school, and I'm deciding what to do for my gap year starting in February. To paint the picture: ORM, California, MCAT/GPA: 522/4.0</p><p></p><p>The rest of my app has research exp (~4 years in a lab). My clinical exp is mostly a little less beefy (~2 years patient interviewing program, lots of hospital volunteering). Everything else is pretty standard.</p><p></p><p>My choice is either</p><p>1) an RA position at Harvard through BWH (which pipelined from a harvard SURF).</p><p></p><p>2) a high-end private practice clinical internship in San Francisco with a doctor who is highly open to pitches in clinical research/affiliated with the SF schools.</p><p></p><p>Position 1 would be clinical/basic research mixed in. It would get me a relationship with a Harvard MD-PhD doctor/professor. Lab environments can be kind of anti-social or boring. Probably (although who knows) won't publish with a year or two of work.</p><p></p><p>Position 2 would be more clinical. Patient contact, administrative work, shadowing, with self-driven clinical research on the side. The administrative work of filing and taking patient vitals may be monotonous, but the doctor relationship and collaboration would be super strong. Also, because this doctor caters so highly to the wealthy, I'm fearful that medical schools will view this experience with hesitance. Although he does use opportunities to help the homeless and underserved for free.</p><p></p><p>I'm kind of torn between the two. I guess it boils down to research vs clinical. If anyone has insights as to how these two activities may be viewed by adcoms, that'd be amazing. Beyond that, how might working under a Harvard doctor-researcher affect career prospects? (I understand the air of vanity associated with this last question, but I'm curious if it really does boost an app or not)</p><p></p><p>Thoughts?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="abdum, post: 22262622, member: 998970"] Hey all, I'm a senior graduating in December from a T20 school, and I'm deciding what to do for my gap year starting in February. To paint the picture: ORM, California, MCAT/GPA: 522/4.0 The rest of my app has research exp (~4 years in a lab). My clinical exp is mostly a little less beefy (~2 years patient interviewing program, lots of hospital volunteering). Everything else is pretty standard. My choice is either 1) an RA position at Harvard through BWH (which pipelined from a harvard SURF). 2) a high-end private practice clinical internship in San Francisco with a doctor who is highly open to pitches in clinical research/affiliated with the SF schools. Position 1 would be clinical/basic research mixed in. It would get me a relationship with a Harvard MD-PhD doctor/professor. Lab environments can be kind of anti-social or boring. Probably (although who knows) won't publish with a year or two of work. Position 2 would be more clinical. Patient contact, administrative work, shadowing, with self-driven clinical research on the side. The administrative work of filing and taking patient vitals may be monotonous, but the doctor relationship and collaboration would be super strong. Also, because this doctor caters so highly to the wealthy, I'm fearful that medical schools will view this experience with hesitance. Although he does use opportunities to help the homeless and underserved for free. I'm kind of torn between the two. I guess it boils down to research vs clinical. If anyone has insights as to how these two activities may be viewed by adcoms, that'd be amazing. Beyond that, how might working under a Harvard doctor-researcher affect career prospects? (I understand the air of vanity associated with this last question, but I'm curious if it really does boost an app or not) Thoughts? [/QUOTE]
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