Is this enough research? or need more

[PerfectMD]

Hi everyone,

I recently got a first-author peer-reviewed publication now indexed in PubMed as a 2nd-year medical student. Really excited to see it come through. I am interested in Orthopedics. During my master's degree, I published my first peer-reviewed paper that is not indexed in PubMed.

My main question is does the one I did during my Master's count for residencies? Also, overall, will I need more publications? I plan on doing my best to get more but in the event that I can not, can I satisfy the rest of my research components with presentations and abstracts?

Thank you.

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[voxveritatisetlucis]

More is always better. How much better is hard to say. If you have the time, it’s probably better to just do more. Why risk it?

 

[imidazzle92]

Depends on what kind of studies/papers. 1st author case report is not as impressive as a more rigorous study. The paper from the Master's degree counts. The numbers frequently cited for ortho, derm, NSG, etc. are all inflated because things like abstracts/oral presentations/posters all count. Either way, 2 actual pubmed-indexed manuscripts by M2 is not bad. If you look at the actual number of pubmed-indexed manuscripts for successfully matched applicants, they are a lot lower than you'd think (there are publications on this).

Strong LORs from ortho faculty, not bombing step 2 ck, etc. will matter quite a bit in addition to research.

 

[PerfectMD]

Depends on what kind of studies/papers. 1st author case report is not as impressive as a more rigorous study. The paper from the Master's degree counts. The numbers frequently cited for ortho, derm, NSG, etc. are all inflated because things like abstracts/oral presentations/posters all count. Either way, 2 actual pubmed-indexed manuscripts by M2 is not bad. If you look at the actual number of pubmed-indexed manuscripts for successfully matched applicants, they are a lot lower than you'd think (there are publications on this).

Strong LORs from ortho faculty, not bombing step 2 ck, etc. will matter quite a bit in addition to research.

the recently published is a review paper. Working on primary research right now but I know they take a while and may not reach publication on time.