Medical students’ research productivity and career preferences; a 2-year prospective follow-up study

Möller, Riitta; Shoshan, Maria C.

doi:10.1186/s12909-017-0890-7

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“…Furthermore all MD-RHD students are first authors on at least one paper. This is comparable with medical student research output reported in similar programs [ 22 , 24 , 25 ]. To note is the inevitable time lag in the peer review and publication process which means that figures of output are always changing, and the process of long term tracking of our graduates can be difficult.…”

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The clinician-scientist track: an approach addressing Australia’s need for a pathway to train its future clinical academic workforce

Eley

2018

BMC Med Educ

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BackgroundClinician-scientist training represents the epitome of preparation for biomedical scientific discovery. The significance of, and need for, clinician-scientists is universally recognised as essential to progress medical research across what is regarded as the ‘translational gap’. Despite a rich history of cutting-edge biomedical research, Australia has no infrastructure or career pathway for training clinician-scientists.DiscussionThe Clinician-scientist Track (CST) was developed to address this concern at the University of Queensland. The CST concept began in 2010 with the Concurrent MD-Masters that allowed students to undertake a research Masters concurrently with their medical program. The rationale was to offer an attractive and realistic option to recruit our highest performing students into a research higher degree, with the underlying aim of encouraging those most capable, to transfer to the MD-PhD. The Concurrent MD-Masters was immediately popular and remains so. Over 8 years, enrolments rose seven-fold (60 MD-Masters, 36 MD-PhDs). The transfer rate from MD-Masters to MD-PhD is 28% supporting our original aim.ConclusionsMany challenges remain for the future of the program. These challenges are underpinned by a culture that values clinician-scientists as crucial to ensuring that high quality health and medical research is undertaken and translated to patient care, but lags behind in establishing an infrastructure to develop and maintain a new generation of this vital workforce. A future challenge is to develop a coordinated approach to a supported Australian MD-PhD pathway for our most talented and committed students beginning in the undergraduate Bachelor’s degree into the medical degree and throughout specialty training. Shared responsibility is necessary between institutions and stakeholders to support and nurture newly trained MD-PhDs into the post-graduate years. Flexibility across this medical training continuum that allows integration of both degrees will help ensure students make the most meaningful connections between the research and the medicine. What is paramount will be acknowledging the career expectations of an emerging cohort of medical students, in particular females, wishing to pursue research. Without these considerations we risk losing our next generation of potential clinician-scientists.

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The clinician-scientist track: an approach addressing Australia’s need for a pathway to train its future clinical academic workforce

Eley

2018

BMC Med Educ

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“…In another study conducted among medical students, 12% had attended an international conference. In the present study, 61% of the participants have presented their research at any conference, which is signi icantly much higher than the previous study (Möller and Shoshan, 2017).…”

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Awareness of importance of research in undergraduate dental students

Ali¹,

K²,

Jayaraj³

2020

ijrps

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Research can be defined as a study on a particular topic in detail in a systematic and scientific method. The purposes of research are to find something new, to prove or support a theory, to contribute knowledge in a field, or to increase awareness about something. Medical research includes basic research to clinical research which leads to advancement in the pharmaceutical industry, to improve healthcare and public health. Research among undergraduate students will expand knowledge in their field, increases interest in their career and improves their resume for job search. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among undergraduate dental students to evaluate the awareness of the importance of research. The study population in the study are the undergraduate dental students with a sample size of 100. The questionnaire consisted of 20 questions and was shared to undergraduate dental students using online survey platform. 80% of the participants college encourage students to do research, 11% of the students college does not and 9% of the students college partially encourages the students to do research. 48% of the participants said they would continue doing research, 17% said they would not continue doing research and 35% said they might continue doing research. From the results obtained, we can conclude that moderate to a good level of awareness is seen in undergraduate dental students. More awareness should be created and undergraduate students should be encouraged to do research and make the best use of their college years.

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“…A Swedish questionnaire study was recently published [ 9 ]. The authors reported a follow-up of close to 400 medical students who had been enrolled in a 20-week mandatory research project 2 years before interview.…”

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Springboard to an academic career—A national medical student research program

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Over the last decades there has been a decline in the recruitment of medical students into academia in all medical fields. Concurrently, medical research has increasingly included other disciplines in multidisciplinary convergence, introducing an unmet recruitment gap and requirement for medical researchers. To counteract the trend and recruit students to academic medicine, a national intercalated Medical Student Research Program (MSRP) was established in Norway in 2002. A preliminary evaluation in 2009 suggested that the MSRP had resulted in recruitment, but could not conclude on a lasting effect beyond graduation in a study that did not include any controls. These results led us to hypothesize that the MSRP could increase the number of PhD degrees and attract medical students towards academic medicine. Adopting a case cohort design, we here report that the intercalated MSRP had a significant impact of the throughput of physician-scientists to PhD, by increasing the rate of PhD completion 10-fold (p<0.001). Moreover, almost twice as many MSRP physicians reported an academic aspiration (49% vs 22%, p<0.001). Results suggested that an MSRP-like approach could efficiently address the unmet recruitment gap and strengthen the medical disciplines in medical research.

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Medical students’ research productivity and career preferences; a 2-year prospective follow-up study

Cited by 47 publications

References 21 publications

The clinician-scientist track: an approach addressing Australia’s need for a pathway to train its future clinical academic workforce

The clinician-scientist track: an approach addressing Australia’s need for a pathway to train its future clinical academic workforce

Awareness of importance of research in undergraduate dental students

Springboard to an academic career—A national medical student research program

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