How long does it take a registrar to complete the compulsory research project enabling specialist registration
| Autor: | E Grossman |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | South African Medical Journal, Vol 109, Iss 4, Pp 254-258 (2019) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2078-5135 0256-9574 |
| DOI: | 10.7196/SAMJ.2019.v109i4.13377 |
| Popis: | Background. The 2011 Health Professions Council of South Africa mandate requires a research component in the form of an MMed degree to permit specialist registration. Registrars consider that the time required to complete an MMed interferes with clinical training, service delivery obligations, and study and exam time. Net research time to completion is difficult to establish because MMed research activity is often intermittent, starting and finishing anywhere within the 4-year clinical training period. Conversely, gross dissertation completion time (DCT) is easily calculated by subtracting the ethics approval date from the dissertation submission date.Objectives. To use gross DCT as a proxy to assess the time needed by registrars to finish the required research project. Additionally, the effect of four variables, namely dissertation format, clinical discipline, university research resources and the introduction of the 2011 ruling on gross DCT, was determined.Methods. The sample was 213 MMed dissertations, downloaded from the public domain. The dissertation submission date was subtracted from the ethics approval date to give the gross DCT in months. Descriptive analysis and χ2 testing were used to determine the effects of the four variables on gross DCT, with significance set at p |
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