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I recently attended the AAMC Virtual Fair and the unanimous opinion among the representatives and medical students at the ~20 schools I chatted with said that papers that were submitted, under review or in-revision could (some even said should) be put under the "Publication" category.
One medical student said they used this format and sent an update whenever the paper was accepted/published, also telling me to NOT put the journal name:
Applicant name, et al. Title of Paper. Submitted/under-review/in-revision. 1st/2nd/3rd etc author.
However, when I look online, there definitely seems to be some split opinions regarding this practice. A lot of people (on SDN especially) seem to be very negative about doing this.
I hesitate a bit on the SDN advice though, as I know it is common practice for people to list pending papers when applying to residency and there were many troll-like comments in previous threads (someone said they could submit cheese to Science and it would have similar value to an applicant submitting their research paper to a journal? Be serious).
I probably will end up listing pending papers and updating schools if they get published during the cycle, will this backfire on me in any way? If there aren't any serious foreseen consequences, then I will proceed as others have since I don't want schools to miss this.
One medical student said they used this format and sent an update whenever the paper was accepted/published, also telling me to NOT put the journal name:
Applicant name, et al. Title of Paper. Submitted/under-review/in-revision. 1st/2nd/3rd etc author.
However, when I look online, there definitely seems to be some split opinions regarding this practice. A lot of people (on SDN especially) seem to be very negative about doing this.
I hesitate a bit on the SDN advice though, as I know it is common practice for people to list pending papers when applying to residency and there were many troll-like comments in previous threads (someone said they could submit cheese to Science and it would have similar value to an applicant submitting their research paper to a journal? Be serious).
I probably will end up listing pending papers and updating schools if they get published during the cycle, will this backfire on me in any way? If there aren't any serious foreseen consequences, then I will proceed as others have since I don't want schools to miss this.
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