Research and Development Internship at Pharmaceutical Company

[Djax99]

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So I recently completed a R&D internship at a pharmaceutical company and my internship involved conducting research and obtaining novel results. I was wondering if this counts as research, as it essentially is the same as if I were conducting wet lab research at a university, it is just that in this case it was for a company. The results that I obtained are being pushed to be published in a peer-reviewed journal just as if I were a research asssistant at a university. Will medical schools consider this internship research? Will they look at it less fondly than if it were traditional wet lab research at a university?

Additionally, tangentially related, but as part of the internship, I had to make several poster/presentations internally within the company (audiences for some of my presentations >100 people internationally). Would this count as a poster/presentation (obviously not as high quality as national conferences)?

 

[nicesecrets]

So I recently completed a R&D internship at a pharmaceutical company and my internship involved conducting research and obtaining novel results. I was wondering if this counts as research, as it essentially is the same as if I were conducting wet lab research at a university, it is just that in this case it was for a company. The results that I obtained are being pushed to be published in a peer-reviewed journal just as if I were a research asssistant at a university. Will medical schools consider this internship research? Will they look at it less fondly than if it were traditional wet lab research at a university?

Additionally, tangentially related, but as part of the internship, I had to make several poster/presentations internally within the company (audiences for some of my presentations >100 people internationally). Would this count as a poster/presentation (obviously not as high quality as national conferences)?

It is research, so you should be good to list it.

As for the presentations in the company, I wouldn't list it as a separate tab since it is what you did on the job for the job.. perhaps you could list it as part of the research tab or as work experience: my three month research culminated in three presentations with cross functional teams that resulted in X.

 

[mmchick]

Research is research. Doesn't matter where it is performed, more so what was done. I agree with all above^ except that you could actually list your presentations/posters as an add-in for the category "presentations/posters" in your primary app alongside this job as a work experience.