Research Experience

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I have been volunteering in a neuroscience lab for a year, with a couple of posters and a potential publication down the road. I will be doing a summer NSERC project and I plan to continue in the lab until my Honors thesis (2 years down the road).

Aside from my current lab, I have only worked in one other forensic psych lab for a year, doing paperwork, conducting structured interviews with psychiatric patients and running undergrad subjects in a small study.

If I were applying for MD/PhD, do you think I could get away with it? Or should I seek out more experience in yet another lab?

 

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I plan to continue in the lab until my Honors thesis (2 years down the road).

If you do this, you should be fine. Spending more of your time with a single lab will allow you more independence in your projects, and more ability to present your research in various ways (talks, posters, publications).

This will look better on your application than some barely part-time scut work you added on for the sake of diversity.

If you can find a logical break in your project and use some of your summer time to work full-time in a new lab, the experience may be useful to you (extra LOR, greater range of experience), but I would definitely not suggest juggling two labs and projects simultaneously.