Advice: Gap Year or Not for IM/Academic Career

Hi all, for a while I've been thinking about taking a gap year. My ultimate goal is to have a clinical research-oriented career where I perform clinical trials in an IM sub-specialty. I've always thought that it'd make sense to develop research skills and try to attend research institutions with as much resources as possible. I'm currently at a mid tier institution with not much research going on (I've talked to almost everyone in the dept) and the project I'm working on is going kind of... Advice: Gap Year or Not for IM/Academic Career
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