highest number of publications?

[ultane123]

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because there is so much talk (and truth) about how publishing as a medical student can be one more aspect of a strong application to residency... just curious what the highest number of publications a med student as had (that you know of, both total and first-author)?

i recently met this orthopedic intern (just graduated from med school in may) who had 15 total, 5 first author, all in ortho. unbelievable.

how many papers are considered "good"? --- 1?
"great"? --- 3?
"outstanding"? 4?
"unbelivable"? 10?

ultane.

 

[OddNath]

Are you counting MD/PhD students? Just curious.

 

[ultane123]

to clarify.... only non-PhD students, and only number of publications in press before start of residency.

 

[xanthines]

Your scale seems pretty right-on to me. For MD/PhD students just add +2 to the first 3 categories (1-2 is usually a requirement).

-X

because there is so much talk (and truth) about how publishing as a medical student can be one more aspect of a strong application to residency... just curious what the highest number of publications a med student as had (that you know of, both total and first-author)?

i recently met this orthopedic intern (just graduated from med school in may) who had 15 total, 5 first author, all in ortho. unbelievable.

how many papers are considered "good"? --- 1?
"great"? --- 3?
"outstanding"? 4?
"unbelivable"? 10?

ultane.

 

[JDWflash44]

Are we talking first author only or what? I should be at 1-3 before going to med school (all ortho pubs), but 2nd author on all of them behind my mentor/PI at NIH. Would they count?

Jim

 

[ultane123]

yes -- all publications BEFORE residency, including medschool, college, and in between.

Are we talking first author only or what? I should be at 1-3 before going to med school (all ortho pubs), but 2nd author on all of them behind my mentor/PI at NIH. Would they count?

Jim

 

[Pythagoras]

I have 5 publications in biomaterials/bioengineering journals (none are first author though, im always behind my PhD mentor). I'm about to start Med School in like 7 days...its just an MD program not MD/PhD; however im hoping to get involved in some research while in med school and add a few more publications, so hopefully i can be around 7 to 10 by the time i finish. I have at least one more paper that may come out of my old lab, but i have 5 in print at the moment.

 

[Crete]

I have 5 publications in biomaterials/bioengineering journals (none are first author though, im always behind my PhD mentor). I'm about to start Med School in like 7 days...its just an MD program not MD/PhD; however im hoping to get involved in some research while in med school and add a few more publications, so hopefully i can be around 7 to 10 by the time i finish. I have at least one more paper that may come out of my old lab, but i have 5 in print at the moment.

10 is normal?????? No medical student I asked while interviewing said more than 1 first author in a respectable journal and a few others in respectable journals is what "you want to shoot for" before graduating!