Publications by Students Doing a Year of Full-Time Research: What Are Realistic Expectations?

Clinical Research Training Program at the National Institutes for Health and Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship was created to provide medical and dental students a structured opportunity to conduct clinical research and to learn how the findings from basic research projects could be translated into advances in the prevention, diagnosis, and therapy of disease. Many students enter these programs assuming that their year of research will result in a publication. However, it is often impossible to complete, write up, and publish clinical projects shortly after the research year, students and program directors who have not done clinical research might not be aware of this limitation. Here, Cohen et al document the publication rates of students in these programs.