Hello!
I am applying for Urology for the coming match and have a competitive application (Step, LORs etc.) as a whole to support this. My application as a whole is fairly research heavy and has 5 urology-specific publications with quite a few abstracts and presentations related to them. However, the thing I've been worried about is that 3 of these publications were published when I was in a uro-onc lab for 3 years as an undergraduate student. Most of these are interesting publications in good urology journals (think J. Urol or BJU) and I am first author on two of them, so in my opinion they are representative of the work I put in and not just fluff. I will not be seeking out an LOR from my old PI as he moved away from academic practice when I was in Med School.
I have worked in an urology lab in med school doing some really cool clinical research, however, the work I have done hasn't been as fruitful in terms of pubs or posters. I will be getting an LOR from here.
SDN as a whole has differing opinions on both the worth of these pubs/research in the match and I was hoping I could get some Urology-specific advice on how to approach this here. I know my extended work in Urology displays my passion for work in the field but I have no idea how to be presenting this both in apps and in interviews. Should I be focusing on the more recent work? How should I contextualize my previous research?
I am applying for Urology for the coming match and have a competitive application (Step, LORs etc.) as a whole to support this. My application as a whole is fairly research heavy and has 5 urology-specific publications with quite a few abstracts and presentations related to them. However, the thing I've been worried about is that 3 of these publications were published when I was in a uro-onc lab for 3 years as an undergraduate student. Most of these are interesting publications in good urology journals (think J. Urol or BJU) and I am first author on two of them, so in my opinion they are representative of the work I put in and not just fluff. I will not be seeking out an LOR from my old PI as he moved away from academic practice when I was in Med School.
I have worked in an urology lab in med school doing some really cool clinical research, however, the work I have done hasn't been as fruitful in terms of pubs or posters. I will be getting an LOR from here.
SDN as a whole has differing opinions on both the worth of these pubs/research in the match and I was hoping I could get some Urology-specific advice on how to approach this here. I know my extended work in Urology displays my passion for work in the field but I have no idea how to be presenting this both in apps and in interviews. Should I be focusing on the more recent work? How should I contextualize my previous research?