Dude who matched vascular at my school said his trick for 22 pubs was Stat Pearls. He said once you get a kind of template going it gets easier and easier to pump them out. Look into how Stat Pearls works. He also basically buddied up with people who had poster projects going and they would piggy back on each other’s work. He would end up having 3+ posters at once conference and many times the conference publishes the abstracts in their own book, which also counts as a pub. You basically just have to be a bit of a gunner, but it’s totally doable. My experience has been grind and find my own avenues. I have 2 anatomy pubs that I basically got by approaching my anatomy professor and telling him I wanted to do something about a unique anomaly in a cadaver. I also found a friend doing a big systematic review on antibiotic resistance and we got some posters out of that. Once you’re into 3rd year it’s even easier to crank out a few case reports, I’ve done 3 of those so far and they each took a total of 4-5 hours. Hardest part is getting the release forms signed, so figure out what your hospital and school requires and keep those handy on your rotations in case some cool comes up you can get them signed right away. Patients are almost always stoked to have their issue brought up for something academic, they’re just not good at following up with the forms.
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I’m leaning toward total outcomes, but I can’t say for sure. He said at every interview his quantity of research came up and the question was “how did you find the time to accomplish this?” I think mainly because the majority of it was done during 3rd year.
Yeah I’ve heard that too, but he said it’s good place to go and nobody gave him a hard time about that. He interviewed at all great places. He also had a lot of other good pubs though, definitely wasn’t a one trick pony. He co-authored a book chapter, couple other bigger things like that. I think his biggest thing was he did no actual research, like never went into a lab or anything like that. He also didn’t have to take time off for research anything like that.
He did all that through StatPearls?
No, but he recommended it as a great way to get your feet wet and said it’s how he beefed up his CV for sure. Like I said, he also had some other good projects and authorships.
DO school isn’t exactly a place that gathers lots of researchers or doctors who do research. It also depends on the location of the school, if your school is in the middle of nowhere with only a few community clinics around it will not be feasible to look for research opportunities. It is quite hard to come by a doctor who meets your mentioned criteria unfortunately imo.
Ah I see you got involved in research with someone remotely. Are people usually agreeable to bring someone onboard who is located far away? Would you recommend doing this as soon as MS1?
Thank you for the valuable insights, definitely worth trying as an incoming DO student like I am 🙂
