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In scrutinizing my application in depth out of paranoia I have discovered a potentially dangerous mistake.
To preface:
I initially thought I was on a paper submitted to a specific journal while I was drafting my AMCAS application back in early May. However, it turned out I had misunderstood what my PI said, and that he actually meant I was on a manuscript that was being prepared to be submitted to that journal in question. When I found this out in late May, I thought okay, no big deal, and thought I had edited and corrected my AMCAS application to reflect this prior to submission at the beginning of June.
However, during the stress and rush to submit my AMCAS application early, an older unedited draft of my research works/activities entry must have been submitted and I missed in my final review that it didn’t use the correct updated wording about the manuscript being in preparation. It’s pretty lowkey and is a single sentence right at the end of my works/activities entry for my research and is not its own entry.
Thus my works/activities section falsely claims I have coauthored a manuscript submitted to this journal, which in reality has still yet to be submitted even now. A fact I have only realized just NOW.
On the plus side, I’m coauthor on a different manuscript that was actually submitted to a different journal last week. Really.
I have interviewed at several places and received an acceptance. Should I sit tight and explain if med schools ever reach out to me? or should I risk sinking my acceptance by reaching out first? Can journals even reveal if a specific person has ever coauthored a submitted manuscript? Maybe I was better off living in ignorance...
I’m actually feeling sick.
For what it’s worth I’m confident my PI can vouch and verify the manuscript is real and I really am coauthor on a manuscript being prepared for submission for this journal and that this was an honest editing mistake. I had zero intention of misrepresenting myself and had always intended to say that I was on a manuscript being prepared for submission to this journal once I found out my mistake in late May. Seriously wishing I took a more careful look.
To preface:
I initially thought I was on a paper submitted to a specific journal while I was drafting my AMCAS application back in early May. However, it turned out I had misunderstood what my PI said, and that he actually meant I was on a manuscript that was being prepared to be submitted to that journal in question. When I found this out in late May, I thought okay, no big deal, and thought I had edited and corrected my AMCAS application to reflect this prior to submission at the beginning of June.
However, during the stress and rush to submit my AMCAS application early, an older unedited draft of my research works/activities entry must have been submitted and I missed in my final review that it didn’t use the correct updated wording about the manuscript being in preparation. It’s pretty lowkey and is a single sentence right at the end of my works/activities entry for my research and is not its own entry.
Thus my works/activities section falsely claims I have coauthored a manuscript submitted to this journal, which in reality has still yet to be submitted even now. A fact I have only realized just NOW.
On the plus side, I’m coauthor on a different manuscript that was actually submitted to a different journal last week. Really.
I have interviewed at several places and received an acceptance. Should I sit tight and explain if med schools ever reach out to me? or should I risk sinking my acceptance by reaching out first? Can journals even reveal if a specific person has ever coauthored a submitted manuscript? Maybe I was better off living in ignorance...
I’m actually feeling sick.
For what it’s worth I’m confident my PI can vouch and verify the manuscript is real and I really am coauthor on a manuscript being prepared for submission for this journal and that this was an honest editing mistake. I had zero intention of misrepresenting myself and had always intended to say that I was on a manuscript being prepared for submission to this journal once I found out my mistake in late May. Seriously wishing I took a more careful look.
