I spent a full year doing basic sciences research in the lab of one of the professors at our school. It was mostly bench type stuff. After I finished my year of work, I presented a poster at my school’s research symposium. In order to be eligible to present my poster, I had to submit an abstract of my research and have that be accepted to the symposium before I could submit and present the poster.
I have two questions about this:
1) Can I list both the abstract I submitted to be entered in the symposium as well as the posterI presented once I was accepted?
2) Is there any way to convey the amount of time I spent working on this? I know a poster presentation at your school is not anything major, and it’s not like I discovered the cure to aging or anything, but I spent a full year working so hard in this research. I didn’t take a year off, I would literally go to class, study, hit the lab, and sleep for an entire year. When other students would go home and unwind after an exam, I went to the lab. We only got five weeks of summer between M1 and M2 and I spent all of it on campus in the lab. I go to a DO school and finding research is impossible, I was bending over backwards to find anything and I’m one of the only students at my school who found research that early. A lot of students rack up publications by writing case reports in like a month and that more impressive than a measly poster at your school, but basic sciences research takes ages. I pipetted until I got carpal tunnel.
How do I show how much time went into this to PDs?