Can research hurt your residency application in some circumstances?

I suppose there are two potential scenarios for this: 1) Doing research in a specialty during MS1-MS3 (for example, OBGYN), only to find out that you don't want to go into that specialty cause another one catches your interest (Optho, for example). But now all the optho residencies will see that you did a bunch of OBGYN research and fault you for it. 2) Doing research in the specialty you apply to, BUT the program you want to go to doesn't like their residents doing too much research. I... Read more
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