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I am on a couple of wait lists and am still waiting to hear from some schools (had my final interview of the cycle yesterday). Some of these schools I like quite a bit. Things I could include in this update would be:
- I finished grad school this month. There is one grade (A in an immunology course) that wasn't on my AMCAS, and I have finished my thesis research project. I am in the process of submitting this work to a pretty well known journal, which will be my first, first author paper.
-Back in September, I received a promotion at my full time job. The promotion was not a wildly new role, more just [title] to Senior [title]. It did add in some new aspects to my job though - began attending meetings re: the direction of our department, began training new staff, began bringing potential study sponsors (I work in clinical trials) for tours of the hospital, etc.
-Also from the clinical trials job, a randomized clinical trial that I have intimately worked in for over 3 years has reached its primary endpoint. It is to be submitted as a late breaking abstract to a major conference in the field next week, and then more formally submitted in mid March. I am included as an author. Is this worth mentioning? The project was very important to me and not explicitly mentioned on AMCAS. It is the type of clinical trial that will definitely be published. Please don't take that as cocky, it was a randomized interventional CT with a large sample size and my PI is a leader in the field.
-I am preparing a manuscript for a global health journal related to a project that was one of my 3 most significant experiences and discussed in my personal statement. This is early on in the process, possibly not worth mentioning (though could be wrapped into a broader update in the state of this project, which I would have some fodder for).
-At the end of February I will be leaving my job. I am traveling to South America where I will be living in a big city and teaching English in one in one settings. I will also have the opportunity to take Spanish lessons and obviously practice a ton (very little English where I'm going). I plan to immerse myself in the culture as much as possible and hope to come back conversational in Spanish (I'm already decent-ish). This is something that's important to the career I'm hoping for, and some of the schools are in areas with a large Latino population.
I would only send to schools where I could also write a genuine bit about my interest, and obviously to school's that accept updates (one or two even encourage them). Does any of this stuff seem worhtwhile? I wish I could say that any of the 3 papers were actually fully accepted at this time. If I wait a could weeks I believe I will have a conditional acceptance for the late breaking abstract, if that helps anything.
Thanks as always! Please excuse typos - I am using my phone in an airport.
- I finished grad school this month. There is one grade (A in an immunology course) that wasn't on my AMCAS, and I have finished my thesis research project. I am in the process of submitting this work to a pretty well known journal, which will be my first, first author paper.
-Back in September, I received a promotion at my full time job. The promotion was not a wildly new role, more just [title] to Senior [title]. It did add in some new aspects to my job though - began attending meetings re: the direction of our department, began training new staff, began bringing potential study sponsors (I work in clinical trials) for tours of the hospital, etc.
-Also from the clinical trials job, a randomized clinical trial that I have intimately worked in for over 3 years has reached its primary endpoint. It is to be submitted as a late breaking abstract to a major conference in the field next week, and then more formally submitted in mid March. I am included as an author. Is this worth mentioning? The project was very important to me and not explicitly mentioned on AMCAS. It is the type of clinical trial that will definitely be published. Please don't take that as cocky, it was a randomized interventional CT with a large sample size and my PI is a leader in the field.
-I am preparing a manuscript for a global health journal related to a project that was one of my 3 most significant experiences and discussed in my personal statement. This is early on in the process, possibly not worth mentioning (though could be wrapped into a broader update in the state of this project, which I would have some fodder for).
-At the end of February I will be leaving my job. I am traveling to South America where I will be living in a big city and teaching English in one in one settings. I will also have the opportunity to take Spanish lessons and obviously practice a ton (very little English where I'm going). I plan to immerse myself in the culture as much as possible and hope to come back conversational in Spanish (I'm already decent-ish). This is something that's important to the career I'm hoping for, and some of the schools are in areas with a large Latino population.
I would only send to schools where I could also write a genuine bit about my interest, and obviously to school's that accept updates (one or two even encourage them). Does any of this stuff seem worhtwhile? I wish I could say that any of the 3 papers were actually fully accepted at this time. If I wait a could weeks I believe I will have a conditional acceptance for the late breaking abstract, if that helps anything.
Thanks as always! Please excuse typos - I am using my phone in an airport.
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