Suss-tymatic reviews are emerging as an increasingly popular thesis option for BHSc students due to their ease and amenability towards being used for “OMSAS points.“ We analyzed a total of 150 fourth year McMaster BHSc students during the 2015-2016 academic year. 108 students self-reported that their thesis involved the production of a suss-tymatic review, defined as a credited authorship on a trivial manuscript which is “almost pretty much ready for publisher review.” The remaining 42 students served as controls, claiming to be involved in “actual research” in departments such as Biochemistry, Philosophy, and Inquiry. Contributions to suss-tymatic reviews were marginally positively correlated with the attainment of medical school interviews (p=0.13), and negatively correlated with acceptance into top-tier graduate programs (p<0.0001) and neuronal cell count post-thesis (p=0.0499). Overall, this study provides suss-tymatic, un-appraised evidence that suss-tymatic review contributors are probably more likely to attain medical school interviews compared to students involved in actual research. Ethics approval is pending for a nested cluster cross-over case-controlled randomized meta-analysis as a followup to this question.
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