Need help on which route of research to take

[StressfulMD]

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So I am grateful to have two options in front of me for research:

1) orgo research with a prof at school--the school is an hour away from home and he wants me to come in 6 days a week. I'm thinking its just basic wet bench stuff (he promised me its not cleaning test tubes all day, which is nice). The professor does some legit stuff

2) chart reviews with an MD at a local hospital--MD an adcom of the affiliated med school, so I think this will help me in the long run. Have any of you had experience with chart reviews? If so, is it worthwhile to do? (i.e., does it count as legit clinical research?) From what I understood from the doc, he said that its data stuff at first, but as I go along, I could maybe propose a project and work on it with him, which would be great.

I'd also like to get you guys' opinion on the chart review stuff too, as I don't 100% know what it entails/if its worth it. What have you heard about it?

So where do I go?? Thanks!

 

[efle]

The basic science would probably be more interesting/varied work but much more difficult to produce anything worthwhile. The chart reviewing will be brainless data extraction from EMR into Excel most likely, but is much more likely to net you a middle authorship on a pub.