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Zehra, Nayyab, Hassaan, Ahmed, Mushtaq, Shafaq |
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Professional Medical Journal; 2015, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p121-126, 6p |
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Background: Evidence based scientific knowledge and research is an integral part of medicine. Research activities in Pakistan are still in their preliminary stages, the students are not well oriented towards medical research writings in their undergraduate years. This has resulted in a serious dearth of physician scientists in Pakistan. One of the major reasons cited is the insufficient teaching of scientific research methodology during undergraduate training. This led us to this study to find out the knowledge, attitude and practice regarding research in medical students of final year and first year at Army Medical College-NUST, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Objectives: The objectives of the study were to compare the level of knowledge, attitude and practice regarding research amongst medical students of final year MBBS and 1st year MBBS. Study Design: Cross sectional descriptive study. Place of Study: Army Medical College-NUST Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Duration of Study: Three months (October 2013 to December 2013). Materials and Methods: A questionnaire consisting of 23 closed questions, adapted from the guidelines given by Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Applied Undergraduate Research Skills (CETL-AURS) at Reading University, was filled by students of first and final year MBBS, through non-probability convenience sampling. The participation of the students was totally voluntary after they were briefed about research process. The data was analyzed by SPSS 21. p value of < 0.05 was considered to be significant. Results: Over 50% of first year students and 21.53% of the final year students had poor knowledge of research methodology. 89.30% students from final year along with 51.30% students from first year were motivated and had interest in research activities. Not a single student from first year and only 12.37% of students from final year were actively involved in research process at the time of undertaking the research. 50.40% first year students and 58.46% from final year strongly disagreed that there are ample opportunities for research in the college. Conclusions: A working scientific forum should be established in the college with introduction of student mentor link. Students should be guided on how to carry out a research and how to make a good research question, how to develop skills for paper writing and evaluating the data collected. They should be given time to complete research in their academic year along with the textbook studies. This system need to be established within the country for better undergraduate research skills and projects in students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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