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As an fmg applying for residency in the US, how many publications should I have to make my application competitive?
As many as you have.
As Buzz Me points out, there's no magic number. And, unless you're lying on ERAS, it's not like you can do anything about those numbers at this point.
I'm US-IMG, hope to be back in USA. In the country I'm in, English isn't too big, but known by people in medical communities. What if I got published in foreign-language journals? Chinese, Japanese....
They're almost all peer-reviewed scholarly journals, just not important on the international scene. It's not like I can ever reach the level of Science, Nature...
What if I'm involved in two med school labs and one biology institute and got published as a minor author (named near the end), but my name appears on some publications, would them serve as credits? Does ERAS even have a place to list them? It's years before I graduate, and I don't know what ERAS looks like.... if anyone can tell me, or show me the fields of the most recent app...I'd appreciate it.
I want to tailor to the best programs I can reach, don't know if i can peek before I apply... I figure it's analogous to CommonApp to the hundreds of U.S. schools... or AMCAS.
It's fine to list foreign language publications, but you may want to help out your application reviewer understand the significance and/or legitimacy of your work by (a) providing a translated title; and (b) providing additional locator information (eg., a reference number for whatever Chinese database indexes the article, like a PubMed ID Number; or a URL). Even (c) some sort of measure of significance would be useful (eg., is there a equivalent to "impact factor" among Japanese peer-reviewed journals?).
Do residencies do detail checking of long lists of publications, esp. obscure foreign ones? Or do they care more to know that applicant has some research skills beyond clinical.
I trust applicants at their word and don't double check their publication lists. I probably should (I saw a poster at a national meeting a couple of years ago indicating that a not-insignificant percentage of applicants misrepresent their publications) but there just isn't time at any point in the recruiting process. I think applicants know by now not to list anything they can't converse knowledgeably about during the interview.