Fostering research skills in undergraduate medical students through Mentored Student Projects: Example from an Indian medical school

Devi, Vasudha; Abraham, Reem Rachel; Adiga, Abhijin; Ramnarayan, K; Kamath, Asha

doi:10.3126/kumj.v8i3.6215

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“…Similar findings were also reported by a study done by Devi et al in Melaka Manipal Medical College, India. 8 Devi et al study findings also reflected our study findings of requirement of more time in terms of time management. 8 Nearly 85% said they have never been exposed to any kind of research activity before to community medicine postings.…”

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Evaluation of research skills of medical interns by focus group discussion: a qualitative study in Chennai, India

Anusuya

Arumugam

Sucharitha

et al. 2018

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Health research has become an important component of undergraduate medical curriculum. Hence we assessed the research skills of interns who have recently completed the community medicine internship postings.Methods: It is a qualitative cross sectional study of 32 interns who have completed community medicine internship postings and also have completed a research project during the postings in a private medical college in Chennai. The method of assessment is by focus group discussion. Duration of the study was 10th August to 23rd August 2018. The research skills were graded on a 0 to 9 point ordinal scale. The mean difference in research skills before and after the postings were analysed using paired t test.Results: 43.8% were males. The mean age was 22 years. 15.6% felt they had research skills even before entering the internship postings. 100% felt they have acquired some kind of research skills after postings. The research skills acquired by the interns were in doing review of literature (50%), sample size calculations (53.1%), methodology (43.8%), questionnaire development (75%), data collection (75%), data entry (53.1%), data analysis under guidance (21.9%), report writing (34.4%), and presentation skills (65.6%). The overall mean increase in research skills before and after the postings was nearly 4.03 (p=0.000). Suggestions given by interns to improve the research activity were giving individual topics (19%), more time (47%) and more guidance (9%).Conclusions: Our study has shown that a research project done during the community medicine internship postings has helped interns to gain research skills.

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Evaluation of research skills of medical interns by focus group discussion: a qualitative study in Chennai, India

Anusuya

Arumugam

Sucharitha

et al. 2018

Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…In order to combat the challenges facing medical research, medical schools need to train future physicians who are eager to pursue careers that include medical research . Medical student research has been shown to provide many benefits beyond the actual research produced, including medical communication skills, medical literature comprehension, critical thinking skills, career mentorship, and a deeper understanding of medical specialties . Consequently, the AAMC, LCME, and ACGME have all encouraged medical trainee research opportunities as components of their guidelines, competencies, and milestones .…”

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A flexible, preclinical, medical school curriculum increases student academic productivity and the desire to conduct future research

Peacock

Grande

2015

Biochem Molecular Bio Educ

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In 2006, small blocks of flexible curriculum time, termed selectives, were implemented in the Mayo Medical School preclinical curriculum. Selectives permitted students to pursue professional endeavors, such as research, service, and career exploration, in the preclinical years. The purpose of this study was to survey current and former Mayo medical students regarding the impact of selectives on their research interest and productivity. The authors surveyed 377 current and former Mayo Medical School students from the 2004 to 2014 graduating classes, 154 participants (41% response rate) responded to the survey. The classes were grouped into pre- and postselective groups for the comparison studies. Postselective students published significantly more (p = 0.003) and gave significantly more presentations (p = 0.0007) during medical school than preselective students. Thirty-four (72% of the postselective respondents) indicated that selectives had a strong or very strong impact on their current research interest. Respondents spent an average of 4.0 [3.0-5.0] weeks of Selective time on research, resulting in 1.8 [1.4-2.2] publications and 1.8 [1.4-2.2] presentations, which represented 52.5% [40.0-65.0%] and 47.3% [37.1-57.4%] of the students' total medical school publications and presentations, respectively. Flexible selective time during the preclinical years results in significantly more medical student academic productivity.

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“…It is widely acknowledged that promoting research aptitude among undergraduate students will help them become more inquisitive and analytical in their approach and in turn lead to adoption of deeper learning capacity. 4,5 Education is a powerful tool that can bring a developmental change in the life of individual, group of people and society at large. For this to happen, learning must encompass the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains.…”

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Knowledge, attitude and practices studies conducted amongst medical students of India

Sachdeva

Taneja

Dwivedi

2018

Int J Community Med Public Health

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INTRODUCTIONResearch is a critical component in progress and prosperity of institution or nations and inter-alia prevents them from rusting, decay and decline. The research environment in developing countries including India is witnessing a slow but positive rise. In this context, irrespective of research subjects, a total of 157 researchers per million populations were reported in India in 2010, much less than the global average of 1023. Similarly, India scored 12th position among the productive countries of the world in medicine during 1999-2008 with a mere 1.6% share in the world research output.2 Another recent study revealed that out of 579 recognized medical institutions, 57% did not produce a single research paper in indexed journal during the period ABSTRACT Background: Assessment of published original "KAP" based research studies conducted amongst Indian medical undergraduate students. Methods: A systematic evaluation was undertaken using keywords "KAP" or "knowledge" or "awareness" or "attitude" or "practices" and "MBBS students" or "medical students" or "health students" or "undergraduate student" or "university students" and "India" through search engines, PUBMED and Google scholar under certain criteria. Results: Highest, "KAP" based articles amongst MBBS students published during one-year period were related to Pharmacovigilance (15.6%) followed by organ/blood donation (11.7%) and self-medication (9.8%), tobacco (5.8%), and basic life support (5.8%) etc; 48 (94.1%) article was one-time cross-sectional descriptive studies while 03 (5.8%) had intervention based research design. Average no. of authors per article was 3.5 (±1.3); Medical student was coauthor in 04 (7.8%) research papers. Corresponding author was largely dominated by faculties from pre and paraclinical departments with highest from pharmacology (29.4%) and community medicine (27.4%). The studies covered an average sample size of 225.8 MBBS students (45-648, range) per research article. Avg. no. of references used/article was 18.6 (±7.4); Out of all the references used in research articles, only 60.2% were of recent-10 year time frame (2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016) origin while the rest were from older time-frame and only 36.1% of all the references were of Indian origin. Conclusions: Probably, first of its kind systemic synthesis undertaken in the country concludes that diverse topics of "KAP" research have been conducted by the teaching faculties on MBBS students in India and this study provides the over-view of the same.

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Fostering research skills in undergraduate medical students through Mentored Student Projects: Example from an Indian medical school

Cited by 38 publications

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Evaluation of research skills of medical interns by focus group discussion: a qualitative study in Chennai, India

Evaluation of research skills of medical interns by focus group discussion: a qualitative study in Chennai, India

A flexible, preclinical, medical school curriculum increases student academic productivity and the desire to conduct future research

Knowledge, attitude and practices studies conducted amongst medical students of India

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