Medical What specialties are known to pump out the most publications?

[Goro]

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Many of my mentors are telling me to do lots of research (doesn't matter if its a specific specialty) and pump out publications to have a shot at more competitive speciality programs. What do you think about this advice, and what specialties are generally able to pump out a bunch of clinical research abstracts/posters/papers quickly?

This is impossible to answer. It really depends upon the authors and what they're studying.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Advice about what? You don't need it to get into medical school, and impact carries some weight. You can't always control when your paper gets accepted either. I think mentoring and your dean's letters are more consequential as would your board scores.

 

[lord999]

Medical genetics/bioinformatics/computational biology, but there's already major talk about adjusting impact factor due to this. I don't view this as even a factor for acceptance. Your numbers (USMLE, GPA) matter far more and are in your control.

I personally think the "easiest" is to do a bunch of meta-analyses, but it's not that useful. But, I'm curious about the source of that advice as for Radiology/Lab Medicine/Pathology which is historically a research heavy specialty, that wouldn't enter ACP's RPD's minds besides making sure they did do some research.