Approach to research for
Current US MD M2 here wondering how I should be changing my approach to research. Currently wanting to pursue PM&R and have essentially completed 3 first author projects with 3 different doctors since med school. Each project however has seemed to stall out and I keep getting ghosted after completing all the chart reviews and data extraction and finish the initial drafts of the manuscript. Very frustrating as I’m essentially completing all these projects and working very hard but idk if anything is gonna get published or I’ll actually have anything to actually show on my residency apps. Meanwhile have friends doing research in other specialties that is much more low lift and they’re cranking about 20 pubs per year. How do people even get on such projects? What should I be doing differently in my approach or like how do people get these projects completed? I’m not sure what’s happening as I’m not receiving any feedbacks from the attendings as to why the projects are just suddenly dying out like this. Any advice is appreciated as I’m starting to get concerned that I may have to take a research year.
FYI these 3 doctors are basically the only ones doing active research in the PM&R department at my school