Tesis doctorales en medicina forense en España

Evaluation of theses in the field of forensic medicine in Turkey

“…Of the forensic medicine doctorate theses in Spain between 2000 and 2009, 38.5% were on the subject of forensic pathology, 13.9% forensic toxicology, 13.97% forensic psychiatry, 13.41% clinical forensic medicine, and 7.26% assessment of bodily harm and other subjects [16]. In the current study, 15.1% of the theses were clinical forensic medicine-trauma, 8.6% age and gender assignment, 6.8% autopsy, and 6.5%forensic psychiatry and other subjects.…”

“…However, when it is considered that in addition to the great effort spent preparing a thesis, there is also financial outlay, and 4 years in education spent learning the rules of scientific methodology, the converison rate is not at a sufficient level. The reasons for this low level include the increasing workload of medical faculties in providing routine healthcare services, the rapid increase in the number of undergraduates, low motivation of faculty members, insufficient time allocated for the development of academic skills, difficulties experienced in the process of thesis preparation, lack of foreign language knowledge, absence of a plan for an academic life as the financial income of medical specialism students is low, and that, as in France, only defence of the thesis is seen as sufficient for the thesis to be counted as successful [7,8,13,16,17].…”

“…A mentoring program designed to develop scientific skills has a positive effect on publication rates [16]. The provision of courses including the process of thesis writing, applying for ethics committee approval, statistical analysis and evaluation, the rules of writing a scientific article, and the selection of a scientific journal, will encourage young researchers on the subject of scientific publication and will play an important role in the improvement of the quality of publications.…”