Importance of presentations/publications/posters in research?

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[penguinsfan71]

Publications, presentations, posters, etc. rank pretty low on the totem pole of factors that adcoms care about. They're nice to add, but they're not going to make or break an application, even at a research powerhouse school.

 

[Goro]

Hi all,

Anyways, title. I kind of shot myself in the foot in this regard because the field I do research in is very intricate and publications/progress takes a very, very long time to push out. I've certainly learned a lot, definitely more than if I would have crunched numbers doing health disparity clinical research (my other option when I came into college) but on paper, it doesn't really look like I've accomplished anything. I have an independent project that was sponsored by a pretty competitive fellowship that I was supposed to work on but it was moved remotely. I still got the fellowship, but I literally did pretty much no work since my research is 100% bench lab; my grad student gave me data and I used in the poster which I made (first author) however the symposium was canceled so my poster isn't even going to get printed or presented...

I'm applying next cycle. Is it worth trying to get a clinical research position in the next year so I could have it on my research tab? I really like research, but I'm just afraid that I won't be able to reflect my research competence and achievements on paper to the research schools I hope to apply to.

Thank you

Research as a whole is over-rated. Showing that you understand the scientific method is always good. The Research Who....um, sex workers like evidence of productivity, but just chill, because it's rare that pre-med students have publications.

I think that you can go a lot further by having lots of service to others less fortunate than yourself.

 

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[LizzyM]

If you are shooting for a top school, you'll need to be in that 5% who have demonstrated research productivity. You can certainly list that you had a poster chosen for the xyz meeting that was cancelled due to COVID. I do think that adcoms this year and next will cut a break to people who hit a snag due to these crazy times were living in.

 

[Isomerase]

Hm, pretty interesting. Out of curiosity, do you remember what was first (or up there) on that survey?

Check page 15 Table 1 for the data @gonnif is referencing

https://www.aamc.org/system/files/2020-07/services_mcat_using-mcat-data-in-2021-medical-student-selection-guide_07082020_0.pdf