Research to improve your CV

[SeafoodNoodles]

Question #1 How much does doing basic sciences research during medical school help you to match?

Question #2 Another question, for example, you did four years of cardiology research, does it help when you apply to general internal medicine residency?

Question #3 Since the field of internal medicine is so broad, what kind research do you exactly need to do to help you to improve your Cv? You can't do research in every discipline of IM.

Thanks for any comments/inputs in advance.

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[gro2001]

In general, research (especially published) helps. How much it helps, and how necessary it is to have research on your application depends on many things (speciality you are applying, the strength of the rest of your application, how competitive are the programs you are applying to, etc).

Productive research, including in cards, would definitely help you when applying to IM. Having said that, some programs with less-than-stellar fellowship placement may raise questions of why you are interested in them.

You don't need to do research in every facet of a speciality to boost your application. It would be best if your research is applicable to your chosen speciality though. And some areas are applicable to almost any speciality (cancer, stem cells, etc).

 

[IMnerd]

There are 5 domains residencies use to select candidates. Since these are weighted differently by each program, its probably optimal to have something memorable in each category.

1) Grades (including AOA and Deans Letter)
2) Board Scores
3) Research
4) Extracurriculars
5) Interview (inlcuding Letters of Rec)