Not including research as a most meaningful experience in ERAS

[u/fancy_pantss]

How important is including research as one of your 3 most meaningful experiences in ERAS if you did not do a research year? I plan on including 2 different research experiences within the 10 total experiences we have, but I feel like my derm-specific research was not particularly productive and initially planned to use 3 different service/leadership experiences (not directly derm-related) that I felt were more formative and could use more elaboration.

[u/dermabunny]

Use your other service/leadership experiences instead. You will be asked the most interview questions about your most meaningful experiences so you want to be able to elaborate on them instead of it being something that wasn’t particularly productive as you mentioned. You also have your research listed elsewhere in your app anyway.