Hi nutellalover! I am not here to provide you with a school list (sorry) but instead with a little validation about your research experience. I think what's more important than having a real passion for research is instead understanding the importance of research in informing clinical and public health practices. And I am sure you can use your experiences to express that in your application. I also think it's important to express interest in exploring different types of research to find what (or if any) fit your goals. I personally had a convoluted research experience too, from a summer fellowship that turned into a publication a year later, to doing clinical research enrollments, to community health research disrupted by COVID, and now (finally) a thesis in anthropology. In my interviews, I tried to bridge these experiences and connect them to my overall narrative.You seem to have a strong vision for yourself and the way you want to impact medicine and public health, and you get to control how your research experience fits into that narrative. Don't be discouraged!