Undergraduate Research

[Supernatural17]

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I wanted to know does it matter what type of lab research you do in undergrad if you plan on applying to medical school. I'm doing Animal Behavior Research in a biology lab and it's not like a chemistry lab or a genetics/Microbiology lab but just field work with birds and analyzing there songs and calls and data analysis afterwards, rather than actual laboratory work with microscopes, etc.... Even though it's not actual laboratory work I really enjoy it. Is this kind of biology research still considered acceptable in what medical schools actually wanna see when you apply? Thanks

 

[AlteredScale]

I wanted to know does it matter what type of lab research you do in undergrad if you plan on applying to medical school. I'm doing Animal Behavior Research in a biology lab and it's not like a chemistry lab or a genetics/Microbiology lab but just field work with birds and analyzing there songs and calls and data analysis afterwards, rather than actual laboratory work with microscopes, etc.... Even though it's not actual laboratory work I really enjoy it. Is this kind of biology research still considered acceptable in what medical schools actually wanna see when you apply? Thanks

As long as you're creating a hypothesis, collecting the data, interpreting the results and can come to gain a decent exposure to the scientific method and have a fairly solid understanding of its application to medicine then you should be fine.

In other words, yes your research is fine to do and will work. For the most part, there's no particular type of research adcoms are expecting.

 

[IIIIIII]

I wanted to know does it matter what type of lab research you do in undergrad if you plan on applying to medical school. I'm doing Animal Behavior Research in a biology lab and it's not like a chemistry lab or a genetics/Microbiology lab but just field work with birds and analyzing there songs and calls and data analysis afterwards, rather than actual laboratory work with microscopes, etc.... Even though it's not actual laboratory work I really enjoy it. Is this kind of biology research still considered acceptable in what medical schools actually wanna see when you apply? Thanks

Umbc?????

 

[Supernatural17]

Umbc?????

Umbc?

 

[IIIIIII]

Umbc?

Haha just making sure you arent my friend who went to my undergrad and did the same research that i did.

Do you spend ours in front of monitors looking at differnt spectorgrams at certain frequency limit (while weeding out extra background noises)? Or do you map out territories by gps points?
Use Signal, Raven, and Exel frequently?
Any sound familiar?
How do I know? I did the exam thing in undergrad... and now I'm a week away from starting med school.

 

[echo87]

UMBC alumni here lol

 

[Tammy Gohard]

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[Tammy Gohard]

bump

 

[becomingdoctor]

hmm.... actually increasing number of research are none hypothesis driven (high throughput genomics etc.). I cannot say there is a clear hypothesis behind human gemone project, ENCODE project or Framingham heart study, but these "research" are truely transforming science and medicine. The over–emphasis on hypothesis has hindered our scpoe of discovery.