Mentioning the school's research on secondaries... how to correctly??

[hellocubed]

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I hear of people noting in the secondaries a school's past and present accomplishments in research as one of the reasons why they want to go there.

I was wondering how to do this correctly because, if there is ongoing research on robotic surgery, medical students will never even take part in that specific research; it would seem silly to mention it as a reason, unless it was illustrated as an indicator of the school's great research facilities. So should we instead mention the research facilities?

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks~

 

[chronicidal]

I don't like mentioning research facilities because who knows what kinds of facilities you'll ever even see? omg four scanning electron microscopes!

I think a more relevant question is, what do medical students do if they get involved in clinical research? Chart reviews and patient enrollment?

 

[drizzt3117]

I hear of people noting in the secondaries a school's past and present accomplishments in research as one of the reasons why they want to go there.

I was wondering how to do this correctly because, if there is ongoing research on robotic surgery, medical students will never even take part in that specific research; it would seem silly to mention it as a reason, unless it was illustrated as an indicator of the school's great research facilities. So should we instead mention the research facilities?

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks~

why would you think that? At our program a former student is on a patent with two attendings for an interventional radiology product, I'm sure it's happened elsewhere as well.