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Originally Posted by salmanjafri
Hey everyone, I'm a premed and I have many questions. I'm a fourth-year undergrad majoring in micro/immuno at a four-year university.
How much immunology is studied in med school?
If one wanted to specialize in allergy-immunology, are the only residencies through which that can be accomplished internal med and pediatrics?
Also, as a premed, does it depend on what kind of journal one is published in? For example, would the admissions committee value a publication in an undergraduate journal, or when people talk about "getting published," are they referring to big-time journals like nature, and science, etc.
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At my school, immuno was studied with micro as part of semester long course, so really, not that much. However, there's a LOT of pathology associated with immune dysregulation, so you will see it come up in pretty much everything.
Specifically looking at allergy-immuno, yes, you have to go through med or peds first. Rheumatology is another good alternative, but that also has training at the fellowship level rather than at the residency level.
As far as publications, I had one but it wasn't in a huge journal, it was in "Alcoholism: clinical and experimental research", and that still helped me. Getting into Nature or Science is huge... heck even JAMA and the New England Journal are huge deals for med students. As long as it's not in something like "Bolivian journal for research on mice with funny looking tails", you should be ok.
