Determining Expected Research Skills of Medical Students on Graduation: a Systematic Review

Adapting for sustainability: Ensuring provision of research skills development for undergraduate medical students

“…Research skills training programmes are valued components of undergraduate medical education. 12 This study identified that the pandemic has to the greatest extent impacted upon project-based research activities which have a 'hands-on' component, whereas what has been described as coursework-based research activity 13 (e.g., generic skills related to research process) was less affected.…”

“…While provision of authentic research experiences is suggested to represent the most optimal path for students to develop research skills, 3 it is at present unclear whether completion of an independent research projects is necessary to achieve competencies, 13 or that it produces better clinician-scientists. 14 Moreover, longitudinal studies will be required to explore whether the pandemic-related disruption of undergraduate research opportunities will impact upon both the achievement of research-related learning outcomes, career trajectories of doctors graduating during this period, as well as other relevant outcome measures including postgraduate research productivity.…”

Educating future clinician academics: the role of medical schools

“…Such careers and the relevance of learning research remains opaque to medical students, and expectations for graduate research competencies are unclear. Unlike clinical skills, there is no consensus on the research skills that Australian and New Zealand medical graduates should acquire 4,5 . Australia is not alone; these gaps are reported internationally with calls for better defined core competencies in research that would enable purposeful design of learning outcomes and assessment 4,6,7 .…”

“…Unlike clinical skills, there is no consensus on the research skills that Australian and New Zealand medical graduates should acquire 4,5 . Australia is not alone; these gaps are reported internationally with calls for better defined core competencies in research that would enable purposeful design of learning outcomes and assessment 4,6,7 . Although an absence of agreed expectations for research training is seen across the continuum of undergraduate to specialty education and training, this article focuses on primary medical education for all medical students, only some of whom will become clinician researchers.…”

Comment on: “Determining expected research skills of medical students on graduation: a systematic review”

“…Dear Editor, I am writing regarding the systematic review published by Lee MGY and colleagues entitled "Determining expected research skills of medical students on graduation: a systematic review" [1]. Although the authors used two well-known databases (MEDLINE and ERIC) to retrieve articles related to medical student research programs, the potential to have omitted relevant publications cannot be ruled out, as the authors stated in the limitations section of their publication.…”