Non-Ortho Research?

[killrforehand]

Hello,

I am currently an MS3 and I was always interested in Ortho but I somehow couldn't find an ortho project my first two years in medical school. I have 6 papers, 1 textbook chapter so far. 3 from undergrad physical chemistry, and 3 in plastic surgery in medical school. I have couple of hand papers coming out soon (hopefully). I am still trying to find ortho research by e-mailing a lot of faculty, but would not having a straight up ortho research (hand is indirectly ortho in my opinion) hurt my application?

Briefly, I go to a "tier 1" school and got a mid-240s in step 1. Decent extracurriculars and leadership in medical school as well. Any advice will be very appreciated, thank you!

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[joker2400]

Hello,

I am currently an MS3 and I was always interested in Ortho but I somehow couldn't find an ortho project my first two years in medical school. I have 6 papers, 1 textbook chapter so far. 3 from undergrad physical chemistry, and 3 in plastic surgery in medical school. I have couple of hand papers coming out soon (hopefully). I am still trying to find ortho research by e-mailing a lot of faculty, but would not having a straight up ortho research (hand is indirectly ortho in my opinion) hurt my application?

Briefly, I go to a "tier 1" school and got a mid-240s in step 1. Decent extracurriculars and leadership in medical school as well. Any advice will be very appreciated, thank you!

We had a student match last year with no research at all. I think you should be fine with what you have. Most residents and attending I've interacted with say that ortho research is better than other research in the sense that the people interviewing you will be able to discuss your research with you. Most ortho attendings won't spend much time discussing your papers if they don't know much about them. The hand papers will be good. You've been productive in your research, and that is going to be what they are looking for.

FYI: I am an M2. My source for this info are 2 attendings involved with choosing residents for their program (PD and chief/chair/bunch of other titles), 2 chief residents with equal voting powers on the resident selection committee, and last years grads.