publishing during residency?

[hopefulvet21]

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I read on dvm360 that vet grads pursuing a residency are often required to publish scholarly articles during their residency. What exactly does that entail? I've never done research or published anything, and the idea of having to do that scares me a bit. What if your work isn't good enough to get published? Where does residents' work generally get published? Is it common to be doing a PhD during residency, or is it just as easy to exclude that and just do the residency? Is it extremely hard to get something published? For those of you who have done research, did you publish? How did you come to learn how to put your paper together? Is there a supervisor of some sort to help you with that? I wouldn't know where to start...

Is it expected that you do some research on your breaks during vet school to get a residency? Or is it basically determined by how well you did at your internship and how competitive the internship was?

(Just getting overwhelmed here by the long road ahead of me!)

 

[No Imagination]

Unless you are planning to go into academia, not sure what publishing during residency would get you (I know publishing makes you board eligible for Lab animal w/ work experience, but thats w/out a residency).

I am sure publishing (if you had to opportunity) during your vet school years couldn't hurt in landing a residency.

Now im curious, because I've never really heard of this.

 

[alliecat44]

Some specialty Colleges (like ACVIM) require a certain number of publications in peer-reviewed journals to be eligible for board-certification. These are required before you sit your specialty certification exam. Precise information can be found on each College's website. Not all specialties require publication and some require more than others....publishing can be anything from case reports to prospective studies to retrospective studies. Again, some Colleges have more stringent/specific requirements.

Additionally, the institution at which you're doing your residency often requires some sort of publication. They might have the same requirements as the College, or different. Usually they'll put this requirement in the info on the VIRMP site. This is done to keep the school/practice's name out there contributing to the literature and knowledge in the community. After all, it's all about reputation... 😉

As far as how to do it--I'm worried about that, too. I have no research experience and have to work this summer--so no chance to do research. I believe your mentors in your residency are a great resource. There are seminars on writing grant proposals, etc.

Hope this helps!

 

[Bill59]

Many residencies require you to do a research project during your residency. Usually that will result in at least one publication. If the residency program is worth a crap, you will be mentored during this process. So as a pre-vet this is the last thing you need to be worrying about right now.

But briefly what's involved is you write the paper, typically with several coauthors who also helped with various parts of the research, and submit it to the appropriate journal. A journal editor sends out the paper to several outside, usually anonymous, reviewers who raise any questions or make suggestions. Based on those reviews, the paper is either returned to the author to address any concerns or rejected. In the first case, if you adequately address the reviews the paper is usually accepted and published.

If it's rejected you have the option of submitting it to a different journal and repeating the process.

Writing the paper is the easy part. Doing the research in the first place is the real work.

 

[chris03333]

Unless you are planning to go into academia, not sure what publishing during residency would get you (I know publishing makes you board eligible for Lab animal w/ work experience, but thats w/out a residency).

You have to publish to take the specialty boards regardless of if you do a residency for lab animal.

 

[No Imagination]

You have to publish to take the specialty boards regardless of if you do a residency for lab animal.

So confusing... I was told otherwise, thanks for clearing it up.