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I am a premed and would like to spend this upcoming gap year filled with ton of clinical research experience. After hearing that many residency applicants who wish to enter competitive specialty fields prepare themselves with not only the stellar board scores but also with five publications, I would like to get at least one or two abstracts during this gap year.
I am searching for faculties in several different fields that I am interested in. I am aware that I must find a mentor who is productive with recent publications and is possibly the chair or the chief of department.
But this is all I know at this point and would like to know more so that I would make a prudent decision, which would help me to fulfill my goals during this gap year.
Many people were saying that it takes shorter time to get publications in clinical than basic research. But this seems like an incomplete statement because it is depended on the projects since it could take several years of field study.
(1) How do I ask the mentor that whether their project is in the process of "wrapping up" or "doesn't require 7 years of field study" so that I would be able to take a role and write abstracts within a year?
(2) What kind of quality research projects are publishable within short time? I heard that projects about patients with unique disorder take short time but they are low in quality once published.
(3) After I manage to find the right mentor and accomplish my goals in GI field, but once I am in med school, let's assume that I would like to change my mind and want to do Cardiology. Then what would happen to my abstracts and publications in GI? Their "helpfulness" would be degraded?
I am searching for faculties in several different fields that I am interested in. I am aware that I must find a mentor who is productive with recent publications and is possibly the chair or the chief of department.
But this is all I know at this point and would like to know more so that I would make a prudent decision, which would help me to fulfill my goals during this gap year.
Many people were saying that it takes shorter time to get publications in clinical than basic research. But this seems like an incomplete statement because it is depended on the projects since it could take several years of field study.
(1) How do I ask the mentor that whether their project is in the process of "wrapping up" or "doesn't require 7 years of field study" so that I would be able to take a role and write abstracts within a year?
(2) What kind of quality research projects are publishable within short time? I heard that projects about patients with unique disorder take short time but they are low in quality once published.
(3) After I manage to find the right mentor and accomplish my goals in GI field, but once I am in med school, let's assume that I would like to change my mind and want to do Cardiology. Then what would happen to my abstracts and publications in GI? Their "helpfulness" would be degraded?
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