Undergraduate research: An innovative student-centered committee from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Research involvement by medical students is an essential need of the twenty-first century and models like URC could provide crucial platform for research training to the new generation of physician-scientists.

Extrinsic motives to encourage extracurricular research activities: a reminder call to medical schools in Saudi Arabia

“…Moreover, graduating clinically-qualified and research-trained medical professionals emerges as a crucial healthcare necessity. In line with the above-mentioned notions, there is a rapidly mounting propensity towards incorporating structured scientific research training into undergraduate medical education 1 , 3 …”

Ten Salient Practices of Undergraduate Research Mentors: A Review of the Literature

“…Over the next decade, numerous studies conducted in the USA, the UK, and Canada clearly demonstrated the benefits of involving undergraduates in research (Gillies & Marsh, 2013;Graham, Hempstead, & Couchman, 2012;Healey & Jenkins, 2009;Hensel, 2012;Kuh, 2008;Lopatto, 2010). Now recognized as a global phenomenon (Jenkins & Healey, 2010), the integration of research and teaching at the undergraduate level is taking hold in Australasia (Healey & Jenkins, 2009;Sandover, Partridge, Dunne, & Burkill, 2012), China (Wang & Wang, 2008;Yuhao, 2014), India (Padmaja, Laxmi Ramana, & Reddy, 2015), the Middle East (Alamodi et al, 2014;Ibnouf, Dou, & Knight, 2014), and the Netherlands (van der Rijst & Visser-Wijnveen, 2011), among other parts of the world. Both government and private funding drive the transformation of undergraduate education in countries such as Oman (Oman Research Council), Qatar (Qatar National Research Fund), and China (Yuhao, 2014).…”

Meeting the global need for physician-scientists: a Middle Eastern imperative

“…Recent scholars have discussed this problem in-depth, and modest but positive efforts have already begun to rectify this situation (6). However, we believe that it is the second of these two questions which forms the gist of the dilemma.…”