How do Medical Schools view Clinical research? Does it look just as good as lab research? I am currently a Research Assistant at a Neurosurgery and interview patients and assess their pain and see how they have been progressing since they have had the surgery.
How does Medical School view clinical research?
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won't really make a difference either way by itself
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As far as I'm concerned, research is research, duder. Basic science and clinical research both employ the scientific method to drive medicine forward, and that's the whole point.
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ANY research is good, as long as you're learning something about the scientific method. But some SDNers think that because it's clinical, that it has more value. it doesn't.
BTW, if you go and study clams in Fiji, just fine too.
Have you been productive in this research? That is, have you been on any abstracts, posters, publications? Clinical vs. bench research doesn't really matter for medical school (if anything, doctors you talk to will be able to understand your research more and it'll be more translatable once you get into medical school) but clinical research generally has a faster rate of publication, which is good.
I am trying to be the most productive assistant out of my coworkers so that I can be rewarded a project to do with one of the coordinators so that my name can be on of the journals that they publish. Wish a brother luck
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