Pharmaceutical work experience as a Pre-Med during gap year

[premed12324]

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I was thinking of working in the pharmaceutical industry during my gap year. Do adcoms see experience in the pharmaceutical industry and drug development of value? Does it fall into the same category as research since it is largely hypothesis-driven work in the drug dev process? (patient safety, clinical trial design, digital medicine) I have interned in pharma before and was super interested in working as a physician in the industry.

 

[premed12324]

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[Goro]

I was thinking of working in the pharmaceutical industry during my gap year. Do adcoms see experience in the pharmaceutical industry and drug development of value? Does it fall into the same category as research since it is largely hypothesis-driven work in the drug dev process? (patient safety, clinical trial design, digital medicine) I have interned in pharma before and was super interested in working as a physician in the industry.

Employment is always good

 

[LizzyM]

If is a fine field for a gap year job.

 

[zorcandpals]

Whether it counts as research depends on your exact role but I can imagine it fitting under the amcas descriptor of research quite well.

 

[LizzyM]

Whether it counts as research depends on your exact role but I can imagine it fitting under the amcas descriptor of research quite well.

It could certainly be called paid employment too.

 

[premed12324]

It could certainly be called paid employment too.

does epidemiological research count as research experience or like a secondary analysis of a dataset (NHANES) that is in the process of being published? or do you mean bench work research by research?

 

[LizzyM]

does epidemiological research count as research experience or like a secondary analysis of a dataset (NHANES) that is in the process of being published? or do you mean bench work research by research?

There are those who like to see bench research skills, despite the fact that epidemiologic research requires a skillset, too, and one that might be more relevant to academic research for a physician-scientist than PCR would be. Anyway, if you write up a research project in your application and use the right buzz words like "test the hypothesis", "data anlaysis" etc then you might be fine.