Abstract

TORO-HUAMANCHUMO, Carlos J.; FAILOC-ROJAS, Virgilio E.  and  DIAZ-VELEZ, Cristian. Participation in student scientific societies and research courses, associated with the scientific production of medical students: a preliminary study. FEM (Ed. impresa) [online]. 2015, vol.18, n.4, pp.293-298. ISSN 2014-9840.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S2014-98322015000500011.

Introduction. The promotion of scientific research within the undergraduate represents a fundamental to ensure continuous medical education and comprehensive training of the student, and should be a priority for all universities. Aim. To identify factors that might be associated with the scientific production of medical student from a region of Peru. Subjects and methods. An analytical, cross-sectional study was conducted. The students answered a self-administered survey where they were asked about their scientific production, their attending to extracurricular courses, their research experience and the reasons for doing research. Crossed variables: belong to a scientific society, attending to extracurricular courses in methodology, biostatistics, critical reading and literature search, with having two or more researches and two or more publications. For the inferential analysis we used the prevalence ratio and Fisher test used with a 95% confidence interval. We considered as a significant value p < 0.05. Results. Of the 50 students surveyed, 44% belonged to a scientific society, 60% had attended to at least one extracurricular course and only 20% had any scientific publication. There was association between belonging to a scientific society and have attended to an extracurricular course with having two or more researches and a publications. Conclusion. There were few students with a research or a publication. Membership in scientific societies and participation in extracurricular research courses increases the probability of having a higher scientific production.

Keywords : Medical students; Peru; Research promotion; Training courses; Undergraduate.

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