Short length summer programs

[blondie888]

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Does anyone know of any week long or 10 day length summer programs in science, medical, or research areas?
All I am finding are programs that are 6 weeks-8 weeks in length and I would like to find shorter programs.

 

[blondie888]

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[apumic]

Umm... a week-long research program? You mean... like going to a conference?
3 months is far too short to be on research team. (Try a minimum of 2 semesters if you want to have anything to show for it -- including a halfway decent LOR.)
What are you wanting out of a 7-10 day program? If you mean an MCAT review, GS offers one... check out their site... otherwise...

 

[NickNaylor]

Yeah, there's no way you're going to find a 10-day research program. That's simply not enough time to do anything productive.

 

[apumic]

Yeah, there's no way you're going to find a 10-day research program. That's simply not enough time to do anything productive.

Haha... well, neither is 3 months, really. After 3 mos in a lab, you're not even properly trained as a lab rat, much less an actual research asst! Just sayin'... Our standards for premeds are kinda low sometimes....

 

[loveoforganic]

You can get a whole (albeit small) project done in 3 months of full time research...

 

[apumic]

You can get a whole (albeit small) project done in 3 months of full time research...

Anything you can get done in 3 months full-time is probably not going to make even the smallest dent in the literature, nor will you have learned much from it, IMO. I also wouldn't expect much for an LOR from someone you've only known for 12 weeks. (I've always heard LORs from research advisors are quite important, so I wouldn't want to apply w/o one -- I hear it's sort of a bit of a red flag.) Research takes time (heck, a thorough lit review can easily take 3 mos and serious research is rarely done without at least a decently thorough lit review). Granted, if you're just doing bench research, that's somewhat different (minus the need for a lit review). You can run trials in the lab all day, etc., but for any sort of applied or clinical research, 3 mos is nowhere near sufficient. It usually takes that long just to find enough subjects! (Or to design the research methods necessary to properly test your hypothesis in the applied or clinical setting, for that matter.) Publishing and conferences take even longer. Even if the lit review had already been done and you had subjects ready for the experiment when you got there on June 1 and someone had already designed your experiment for you, the next few weeks would be runs of each trial. Assuming you finished this by mid-June and submitted an abstract to a conference by our imaginary (and very convenient) deadline of June 25, you would still likely expect a good 1-2 month delay between initial submission and even hearing back whether you'll get to present. Assuming you are accepted, it is likely to be another couple of months before the actual conference. In this case, we'll assume the best and say the wait is only 3 months, which puts us at September 25. So even with everything else done for us, our wonderful little project still took more than 3 mos to bring to a productive close!

 

[loveoforganic]

Doesn't have to be clinical, and with a project that can be done in approximately 3 months prepicked by PI, you can get the full research experience, minus some of the lit review and sending the paper back and forth doing revisions based on what journal whatever's editor would like to see.

Anyone who doesn't think 2400 hours of continuous research is a significant research experience is a big fat do do head! Big and fat I say!