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So I made a post last night about previous graduate students’ records being a factor to consider when choosing a lab for your PhD research / graduate school. A similar argument can be made for medical students who will be taking a year or two off to do research. Anyway, in choosing a lab there [...]
If you are a graduate student in the process of finding a thesis advisor, one factor that you should consider is how well previous graduate students have done. Some objective measures to look at are:
1) How many publications did each graduate student finishing in the last 5 years have?
2) Does the lab produce high quality or [...]
Are you a medical student looking for a short term research project that will get you a publication?
How do you communicate this to the professors / investigators you want to work with?
This is a dilemma facing many medical students, who are looking for research experience that will lead to publication(s), which–let’s face it–are becoming more and [...]
One of my mentors once advised me that the number one predictor of becoming a Nobel prize winner is working in the lab of a nobel prize winner. That the number one predictor of being elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is working in the lab of an NAS member. I don’t know [...]
Okay, so you are an enthusiastic medical student on the wards and you want to learn. At the same time, it is 2 PM and you haven’t eaten anything since yesterday at 9 PM but your resident is too busy (with work that you cannot do so you are not busy) to keep track of [...]
The best advice I ever received regarding interviews was from one of my professors in college, who said, “Don’t miss the questions you’re supposed to get right.” It’s such obvious and yet brilliant advice. In my experience, I would say that everyone knows this without anyone saying it to them, but almost no one really [...]
