Research isn't nice to have.
It's THE differentiator.
Physician-taught, self-paced. The repeatable system Dr. Kevin Jubbal, Dr. Sean Anderson, and Dr. DePaul Patel used to publish 60+ research items each, now packaged into a course built for pre-meds and med students who see research as a tool for competitiveness.
Watch Dr. Kevin Jubbal explain the Research Output Engine (8 min)
NRMP charting outcomes , most recent match cycle
28
Dermatology
research items (avg)
35
Plastic surgery
research items (avg)
37
Neurosurgery
research items (avg)
Those numbers have nearly doubled in just a few years. Research increasingly differentiates top programs from average ones , in every specialty, and increasingly in med school admissions too.
This is probably what's happening to you right now
“Research matters. Everyone tells you it matters. So you do what you’re supposed to do.”
, Dr. Kevin Jubbal, from the intro video above
Emails ignored
You email PIs 5, 10, 20 times. You hear back from maybe one or two.
Six months of grunt work
You get onto a project, and now you're six months in doing data entry, cleaning spreadsheets, running samples.
Fifth-author fog
You ask about authorship and hear "let's see how it goes." Maybe somewhere around fifth author.
Watching classmates publish
Meanwhile, classmates have 3, 4, 5 publications , second or third author , and you think, what do they know that I don't?
A letter from Dr. Kevin Jubbal
I know this because I lived it. When I applied to plastic surgery , a specialty with one of the highest research expectations , I had 66 research items on my application: publications, abstracts, posters, and oral presentations. But here’s what most people don’t know.
For the first several years I was terrible at research. I was getting one research item every couple of years. I was cold emailing PIs and getting ignored. I was watching classmates publish while I felt completely stuck.
So the real question isn’t that I ended up with 66 items. It’s how I went from stuck to that , and I didn’t figure this out alone. I built this course with Dr. Sean Anderson and Dr. DePaul Patel. Both matched into competitive specialties. Both have 60+ research items of their own. Between the three of us, we’ve each independently figured out how this game actually works.
This is the framework that took me from one research item every couple of years to producing over 30 research items in a single year. It got to the point where some mentors genuinely asked me if the numbers were even real. They were. Every publication, abstract, poster, and presentation is real, and you can see the full list publicly at kevinjubalmd.com.
, Dr. Kevin Jubbal, MD
Research is the one extracurricular that compounds over your entire career
Everything else resets. What you do as a pre-med only counts for your med school application. Then you reset in med school and start over for residency. Research publications, abstracts, and presentations stay with you. ERAS , the residency application , literally has categories to list every research item for your entire life.
The students who understand this aren’t working harder than you. They just started building sooner , and they knew how to build.
The Research Output Engine
Not a list of tips. Not another “how to email a PI” video. A repeatable system built on three pillars , refined by three physicians over years of trial, error, and teaching student researchers.
01
Get In
Go from feeling frustrated, overwhelmed, and intimidated by research to confidently identifying high-yield projects and using outreach strategies that actually get responses.
02
Get Output
Master authorship rules, project design, and data analysis. Learn the advanced shortcuts that save enormous amounts of time. Instead of dreading research, it becomes a game where your effort compounds.
03
Make It Count
Select, frame, and present your research so it actually impresses admissions committees , not by inflating numbers, but by showing ownership, progression, and impact.
What every URC student gets
Physician-taught video curriculum
Every module built and taught by Kevin, Sean, and DePaul.
Outreach templates that get responses
Actual PI email templates from Kevin's 60+ publication run.
Authorship playbook
How to negotiate authorship position early , before six months of data entry.
Project selection framework
How to identify high-yield projects vs. dead-end ones.
Manuscript-to-submission workflow
Section-by-section writing walkthrough. Journal selection strategy. Peer-review response guide.
Poster & podium presentation prep
Templates + speaker prep for conference deliverables.
Planners and step-by-step execution guides
Not theory , a system you can actually run.
Exclusive URC-only community
Interact with other pre-meds and med students. Share notes, seek collaborators, help each other succeed.
Built by physicians. Not academics.
Three physicians. 180+ combined research items. Every module is grounded in current research practice , not textbook theory.
Dr. Kevin Jubbal, MD
Founder, Med School Insiders
Plastic surgery match. 66 research items on application. Full list published at kevinjubalmd.com.
Dr. Sean Anderson, MD
URC Co-Creator
Matched into a competitive specialty. 60+ research items. Co-designed the Research Output Engine.
Dr. DePaul Patel, MD
URC Co-Creator
Matched into a competitive specialty. 60+ research items. Co-designed the Research Output Engine.
Three ways to enroll
Kevin’s closing line in the video: “You’ll see three options depending on the level of support you want. Pick the one that fits.” Base price plus optional Insider access, scaled by seniority and years of experience.
The self-paced system
URC Core
Was $599 · Save $250
Self-motivated pre-meds and med students who want the framework.
- ✓Full Research Output Engine curriculum
- ✓Planners, templates, execution guides
- ✓Exclusive URC-only community
- ✓Peer support from other URC students
- ✓10-Day 100% Money Back Guarantee
Small-group coaching
URC + Resident Insider
Insider · Resident · 3-5 yrs experience
Placeholder pricing , TBD
Students who want live Q&A from someone who just did this successfully.
- ✓Everything in URC Core
- ✓Monthly small-group Q&A with a matched resident (recent 60+ items)
- ✓Priority answers in the community
- ✓Manuscript review , 1 paper included
- ✓10-Day 100% Money Back Guarantee
1:1 with Dr. Jubbal
URC + Attending Insider
Insider · Attending · 10+ yrs experience
Placeholder pricing , TBD
Students targeting the most competitive matches (derm, plastics, neuro).
- ✓Everything in URC + Resident Insider
- ✓4 × 1:1 sessions with Dr. Jubbal or Dr. Anderson
- ✓Direct application review
- ✓Manuscript review , up to 3 papers
- ✓Introductions to research collaborators
- ✓10-Day 100% Money Back Guarantee
10-Day 100% Money Back Guarantee
“There’s no risk in trying this. Go through the course. If it’s not for you for any reason, you get a full refund.”
, Dr. Kevin Jubbal
Frequently Asked Questions
Kevin’s answer: “Technically, yes, but here are two problems. It took me seven years of trial and error, talking to colleagues, digging through YouTube and Reddit to learn what’s inside this course. Dead-end projects, ignored emails, wasted effort. This is the shortcut I wish I’d had. Second, some of the most powerful tactics in this course are closely guarded , used by a small minority of research superstars in med school. Most students never learn them, not because they’re impossible to understand, but because no one teaches them openly. In this course, we’re giving those tactics away.”
Optimized for pre-meds and med students who see research as a tool for competitiveness. You don’t have to love research. You don’t have to want a PhD. If you do want a lifelong research career, you’ll still get value , but that’s not who we built this for. We built this for students who understand that research matters for admissions and want to do it strategically and efficiently without wasting years figuring it out on their own.
Research is the one extracurricular that compounds over your career. What you do as a pre-med only counts for your med school application , then you reset for residency. But research publications, abstracts, and presentations stay with you. ERAS literally has categories to list every research item for your entire life. Applicants with massive research numbers didn’t just do it in med school , they started in college.
Self-paced. The framework is designed so you spend less time overall than you would grinding through dead-end projects on your own. Kevin went from 1 research item every couple of years to 30+ in a single year using the same system.
URC starts assuming zero experience. Get In (identifying high-yield projects, outreach) is Pillar 1 for exactly this reason.
No course can guarantee publication , that depends on your data, journal, and reviewers. URC gives you the exact process our physicians use. The outcome is on your work.
Placeholder for this preview. The current live product is URC Core at $349. Tier 2 (Resident Insider) and Tier 3 (Attending Insider) are conceptual, demonstrating how the tier structure Kevin mentions in the video (“three options depending on the level of support you want”) could map to URC. Real pricing and features pending product spec.
10-Day 100% Money Back Guarantee. Go through the course. If it’s not for you for any reason, you get a full refund.
Turn research from a source of stress into a real advantage
Hundreds of pre-meds and medical students have already decided to level up how they approach research. If you want to stop guessing and start building research that actually helps your application, you’re in the right place.