Taking year off to do research - will it help?
Started by SoyMilk
If you do something that significantly advances the specialty, then yes. If you get some sort of advanced degree from it, then perhaps. If you do some no-name little study, then unlikely, especially if you're only doing it to stay in California rather than a love of research.
Having helped selected applicants as a chief, research was very low on our list of criteria.
There's a lot of other great places--consider leaving your comfort zone and explore the possibility of living somewhere else for a few years.
Having helped selected applicants as a chief, research was very low on our list of criteria.
There's a lot of other great places--consider leaving your comfort zone and explore the possibility of living somewhere else for a few years.
Focus on clinical grades and Step 2. Then great EM rotations and letters.
Research is way behind all of those.
Wait, are you M1/M2/M3?
Research is way behind all of those.
Wait, are you M1/M2/M3?
M3.
He asked some similar questions in this post: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/thr...no-honors-top10-school.1060184/#post-15018019
SoyMilk, I obviously can't speak for everyone, but I strongly suspect you're going to get the same responses to this question as you did to the thread above.
