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Research training program in a Turkish medical school: challenges, barriers and opportunities from the perspectives of the students and faculty members

BACKGROUND: Providing medical students with opportunities for research experience is challenging for medical schools in developing countries. The Research Training Program (RTP), which is carried out in Ege University Faculty of Medicine (EUFM) parallel to the core curriculum, aims to improve the sc...

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Autores principales: Öcek, Zeliha, Batı, Hilal, Sezer, Ebru Demirel, Köroğlu, Özge Altun, Yılmaz, Özlem, Yılmaz, Nilüfer Demiral, Mandıracıoğlu, Aliye
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7780673/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33397360
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02454-1
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author Öcek, Zeliha
Batı, Hilal
Sezer, Ebru Demirel
Köroğlu, Özge Altun
Yılmaz, Özlem
Yılmaz, Nilüfer Demiral
Mandıracıoğlu, Aliye
author_facet Öcek, Zeliha
Batı, Hilal
Sezer, Ebru Demirel
Köroğlu, Özge Altun
Yılmaz, Özlem
Yılmaz, Nilüfer Demiral
Mandıracıoğlu, Aliye
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description BACKGROUND: Providing medical students with opportunities for research experience is challenging for medical schools in developing countries. The Research Training Program (RTP), which is carried out in Ege University Faculty of Medicine (EUFM) parallel to the core curriculum, aims to improve the scientific competencies of the highly motivated students and to provide them with the opportunity to conduct a research. The purpose of this project is to evaluate RTP through the perspectives of students and faculty members. METHODS: This phenomenological study included two groups; students of RTP and faculty members who contributed to the program. Interviews were conducted with the research group whose selection was determined by maximum variation technique. Interviews with new individuals continued until data saturation was reached. Interpretative data analysis started with close reading of the transcripts and generating a list of codes. Coding by two independently, developing categories and themes were the following steps. RESULTS: Twenty-one RTP students and 14 faculty members were interviewed. The main motivation for students to participate was the desire to learn how to do research. The introduction course providing the students with the basic competencies needs to be improved in terms of practical activities. It was reported that during the project process students needed intensive guidance especially in finding a research topic and a mentor. The students’ lack of time, deficit of enough mentoring and the fact that conducting a research does not provide a competitive advantage for residency are important obstacles to the completion of the program. The most frequently mentioned achievement of the students is to learn all the stages of the research as well as getting acquainted with critical thinking. CONCLUSIONS: This research showed that it was realistic to implement research programs for highly motivated students in medical schools with conditions like those in EUFM. The solution of mentor shortage emerged in this study is dependent on the adoption of student research as a national policy. Getting acquainted with the interrogative thinking style, conducting research, and making lifelong learning a core value are more important outcomes of research programs than the number of completed projects.
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spelling pubmed-77806732021-01-05 Research training program in a Turkish medical school: challenges, barriers and opportunities from the perspectives of the students and faculty members Öcek, Zeliha Batı, Hilal Sezer, Ebru Demirel Köroğlu, Özge Altun Yılmaz, Özlem Yılmaz, Nilüfer Demiral Mandıracıoğlu, Aliye BMC Med Educ Research Article BACKGROUND: Providing medical students with opportunities for research experience is challenging for medical schools in developing countries. The Research Training Program (RTP), which is carried out in Ege University Faculty of Medicine (EUFM) parallel to the core curriculum, aims to improve the scientific competencies of the highly motivated students and to provide them with the opportunity to conduct a research. The purpose of this project is to evaluate RTP through the perspectives of students and faculty members. METHODS: This phenomenological study included two groups; students of RTP and faculty members who contributed to the program. Interviews were conducted with the research group whose selection was determined by maximum variation technique. Interviews with new individuals continued until data saturation was reached. Interpretative data analysis started with close reading of the transcripts and generating a list of codes. Coding by two independently, developing categories and themes were the following steps. RESULTS: Twenty-one RTP students and 14 faculty members were interviewed. The main motivation for students to participate was the desire to learn how to do research. The introduction course providing the students with the basic competencies needs to be improved in terms of practical activities. It was reported that during the project process students needed intensive guidance especially in finding a research topic and a mentor. The students’ lack of time, deficit of enough mentoring and the fact that conducting a research does not provide a competitive advantage for residency are important obstacles to the completion of the program. The most frequently mentioned achievement of the students is to learn all the stages of the research as well as getting acquainted with critical thinking. CONCLUSIONS: This research showed that it was realistic to implement research programs for highly motivated students in medical schools with conditions like those in EUFM. The solution of mentor shortage emerged in this study is dependent on the adoption of student research as a national policy. Getting acquainted with the interrogative thinking style, conducting research, and making lifelong learning a core value are more important outcomes of research programs than the number of completed projects. BioMed Central 2021-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7780673/ /pubmed/33397360 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02454-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Batı, Hilal
Sezer, Ebru Demirel
Köroğlu, Özge Altun
Yılmaz, Özlem
Yılmaz, Nilüfer Demiral
Mandıracıoğlu, Aliye
Research training program in a Turkish medical school: challenges, barriers and opportunities from the perspectives of the students and faculty members
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title_short Research training program in a Turkish medical school: challenges, barriers and opportunities from the perspectives of the students and faculty members
title_sort research training program in a turkish medical school: challenges, barriers and opportunities from the perspectives of the students and faculty members
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7780673/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33397360
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02454-1
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