Sorry if this response is way overdue! Yes there’s tons of research opportunities! To the point that LSU hosts its own summer research programs that you can apply for so that you get paid + run your own project. It’s also worth mentioning (I didn’t know this until applying through ERAS for residency) that presenting a poster is equal in weight as getting publication, and LSU also takes care of you for that as well. We host our own “Poster day” so that all researching students get a chance to design and print their poster of their project and present it to other students. It’s awesome considering how hard it is to apply nationally for a poster presentation so it’s good to have one in-house to tack that onto your resume .
P.S. Congrats to all the future doctors who have been accepted! And to those waiting and those rejected; don’t let this grueling process break your morale, the only person who can tell you you can’t be a doctor is yourself!