<p>Hey,</p>
<p>My mentor at the hospital I am interning at said the hospital might not allow me to send in a research paper (also because I am still working on it)... They say there might be a lot of patient confidentiality issues and they dont want me to send it due the risk... I wonder if there is an alternate method to send them the gist of my project... its due to the fact of the surgical cases i researched and asking all of them for a patient confidentiality waiver for this thing is asking to much... </p>
<p>Someone mind telling me if it is worth sending on in light of these small problems i've listed... another thing is i continued the research project in india and dubai as well... so itll be double the work asking for patient confidentiality waiver from the past patients i was working with in india/dubai...</p>
<p>You could ask your mentor if it would be possible to send the abstract of the paper. Abstracts don't usually contain identifying information, as they include only a brief summary of the data and not the data itself.</p>
<p>Alternately, you can write a paragraph about the research and its impact on you rather than the research itself. This can be more helpful in terms of college admissions than sending a full research paper, since MIT will likely not have time to have it evaluated fully in a technical manner.</p>
<p>Ok, i will make sure to fax it to them rather than mail... im kinda worried because i sent in 2 supplementary materials already and within the coverletter i wrote a Post script stating it might not be possible to send in a research paper... but i will contact them to ignore that</p>
<p>So i guess ill send both... im sure they wont mind me sending in an abstract... and it wont hurt sending in the alternate option u suggested along with it</p>
<p>Yup abstract is the way to go</p>