1. Why research?

According to the US Medical School Admissions Handbook, 88% of admitted student have involved in research in undergrad years prior to medical schools. On average, US medical school have 7-10% student already had an advanced degree such as PhD or MS. These student already finished their graduate degree before medical school. This shows research is important in US medical school and almost a requirement. For students apply to competitive residencies such as plastic surgery, surgery, surgery subspecialties, or dermatology, etc. - research is a must. In addition, for future fellowship application, a good research record will enhance your chance when you apply.

For Vietnamese Medical Graduates, we already have some disadvantages due to language or location. Therefore, in order to increase the chance to get into US residencies, even the less competitive ones, VMGUS strongly recommend that you should participate some kinds of research.

A research project can be simply as some case studies or chart review. With a large Vietnamese patient population, I believe that there some research opportunities in Vietnam. VMGUS hopes to initiate some research projects in Vietnam that VMGUS members can participate.

In VMGUS forum, we will introduce some basic concepts about basic science and clinical research. If you have some knowledge in research, please share with us here. Below are some research materials / textbooks available for VMGUS members. For more books on USMLE, basic science, and clinical science, please go to our main forum.

E-Books
1. Designing Clinical Research
2. American Joint Committee on Cancer-Cancer Staging Atlas
3. Growth Factors and their receptors in Cancer Metastasis
4. Fundamentals of Clinical Research
5. How to write and publish a scientific paper
6. Basic Statistics for Health Science
7. Textbook of Clinical Trials
8. Biostatistics Lectures

Software
1. SPSS version 12

Search Materials on Web
1. New England Journal of Medicine
2. Journal of the American Medical Association
3. Pubmet of National Library of Medicine and National Institute of Health
4. sciencedirect.com
5. medscape.com

2. Research Finding Article

If you are looking for some articles online from New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, or so on, VMGUS can help. VMGUS has accesses to many top medical journals. All you need to do is log in to our forum and request. It may take up to 3 days for us to find that article. For more detail, please visit our main forum.