you might want to be applying to one of the benefits of having a mentor is that they're going to be so much more experienced than you in the field of scientific research and so don't be scared to lean on them for asking about the logistics of publishing you know what your best chances are if there's a realistic chance of you being published et cetera because they might just say to you right off the bat you know what i'm working on a research project that's going to take about five years to complete i don't expect it to be published anytime soon if your main priority is publishing then it might be better for you to go to a different pi now imagine knowing that information upfront versus not asking about publication and you start working for them and then you're halfway through the summer before you realize well this isn't going to help me for my immediate job applications i know it's a scary and daunting thing to do to actually talk about publishing but remember you know researchers know exactly why you're there almost every student who goes to do scientific research wants to get published and they're there to get published there are a few who just love doing scientific research which is completely great but you know they know this already so be honest about your goals and ask them what the likelihood of publishing might be and then even after your research project is over stay in touch with your mentors because you know once the research is done they'll likely be able to offer you future opportunities if they're going to do more research and if not they're just really valuable connections and friends to have in the scientific field something that i do is every now and again i'll drop an email to my pi or the team that i was working with just checking in with them how are things going how's that research project going just to keep in touch and keep things going along before we move on to the rest of the video it's time for an ad from today's sponsor squarespace from websites and online stores to marketing tools and analytics squarespace is the all-in-one platform to build a beautiful online presence and run your business their website builder makes it easy for someone like me with no knowledge of how to make a website to custom design one from scratch what i like most about squarespace is those customizable templates each designed by a world-class design team to help you fit your own personal brand their websites are also optimized for mobile devices so they look great whether you're looking at it on a phone a laptop or a tablet and you can even manage the entire website from an app on your phone my friend an amazing photographer aaron who takes a lot of my photos on instagram has his entire portfolio and website built using squarespace there's loads of other features like powerful email campaigns built-in seo and in-depth analytics tools whether you want to start a blog sell things online or share your photography portfolio do it with squarespace head to URL_TOKEN for a free trial and then when you're ready to launch go to URL_TOKEN karma medic for NUMBER_TOKEN off your first purchase of a website or domain all right let's get back to the video although finding a mentor and joining a group of other researchers is one of the main ways to publish it's not always easy and instead you might consider publishing something on your own you can reach out to lower impact journals with your interesting ideas and tailor your work to their research guidelines often medical students can submit pitches for articles that they want
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