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Hey guys!
I was reading through the recent thread about Yale, and I noticed that a lot of you have mentioned 1+ years of research experience. I was wondering if anyone would care to elaborate a bit more about what kind of research you did? I'm from Canada, applying to US schools plus Canadian schools. I am applying for streams in health education and/or community health. And I have about 1.5 years of research-related experience. The thing is that I actually majored in molecular biology, so a lot of my research experience is connected to wet lab work (I did have my own project for this one and I did my undergrad thesis there). Over this past summer though, I designed an educational brochure for patient education, and alongside of that, some data entry for clinical research, but never had my own project. I also have about 6+ months of experience in screening patients for government public health studies, although I guess you can either count this under "research" or "volunteering". Again, the problem is that I didn't have my project.
I'm asking because in a professional program like MPH, I'm confused as to how important research experience is. Also, I'm currently picking out references and I'm debating whether or not to ask my PI from my molecular biology lab as a reference, given that molecular bio isn't exactly relevant to health education and he would have little to say about my ability to conduct any social science research.
Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance!
I was reading through the recent thread about Yale, and I noticed that a lot of you have mentioned 1+ years of research experience. I was wondering if anyone would care to elaborate a bit more about what kind of research you did? I'm from Canada, applying to US schools plus Canadian schools. I am applying for streams in health education and/or community health. And I have about 1.5 years of research-related experience. The thing is that I actually majored in molecular biology, so a lot of my research experience is connected to wet lab work (I did have my own project for this one and I did my undergrad thesis there). Over this past summer though, I designed an educational brochure for patient education, and alongside of that, some data entry for clinical research, but never had my own project. I also have about 6+ months of experience in screening patients for government public health studies, although I guess you can either count this under "research" or "volunteering". Again, the problem is that I didn't have my project.
I'm asking because in a professional program like MPH, I'm confused as to how important research experience is. Also, I'm currently picking out references and I'm debating whether or not to ask my PI from my molecular biology lab as a reference, given that molecular bio isn't exactly relevant to health education and he would have little to say about my ability to conduct any social science research.
Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance!
