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Hi all.
My application is fairly strong in most areas...except for research. I have only managed to be part of a laboratory for the past year helping out with participant testing and data collection, but nothing near writing a paper.
Only in the past month have I started a role in a research project with a masters student. She has already done most of the work (including gathering data/testing participants), so my role is fairly superficial in the big picture. I am taking on the role to organize, manage, and interpret the abundance of data. This is still a large task though and should take 200-250 hours to complete. It is through a directed studies (course credit) if that adds anything.
Clearly, this is a role in research that did not have much to do with the initial/creative processes in developing the project. I find that this could be problematic with medical schools, as they want students to discuss the research in depth and sometimes even why a certain hypothesis was chosen. How do I approach this if I did not contribute to the hypothesis or the synthesis of the research protocol at all? In addition, I will not be writing up the paper 🙁.
I am very enthusiastic about research, but at my school the opportunities are not so abundant and I did not land the type of position on a project that would entail writing a paper and going through the scientific process. Don't get me wrong though, I understand the scientific process thoroughly and part of my directed studies (the course credit part) is to search the literature and submit a few essays discussing aspects of the project.
1) Is this type of role in research still considered "research" for most medical schools?
2) For research heavy schools, would it be to my benefit or detriment to discuss the lack of research but the recently increased involvement and interest for the field?
My application is fairly strong in most areas...except for research. I have only managed to be part of a laboratory for the past year helping out with participant testing and data collection, but nothing near writing a paper.
Only in the past month have I started a role in a research project with a masters student. She has already done most of the work (including gathering data/testing participants), so my role is fairly superficial in the big picture. I am taking on the role to organize, manage, and interpret the abundance of data. This is still a large task though and should take 200-250 hours to complete. It is through a directed studies (course credit) if that adds anything.
Clearly, this is a role in research that did not have much to do with the initial/creative processes in developing the project. I find that this could be problematic with medical schools, as they want students to discuss the research in depth and sometimes even why a certain hypothesis was chosen. How do I approach this if I did not contribute to the hypothesis or the synthesis of the research protocol at all? In addition, I will not be writing up the paper 🙁.
I am very enthusiastic about research, but at my school the opportunities are not so abundant and I did not land the type of position on a project that would entail writing a paper and going through the scientific process. Don't get me wrong though, I understand the scientific process thoroughly and part of my directed studies (the course credit part) is to search the literature and submit a few essays discussing aspects of the project.
1) Is this type of role in research still considered "research" for most medical schools?
2) For research heavy schools, would it be to my benefit or detriment to discuss the lack of research but the recently increased involvement and interest for the field?
