جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « research management » در نشریات گروه « پزشکی »

Medical education is a broad field of study that, as a subset of educational research, examines inputs, processes and outputs associated with teaching and learning medical sciences. The purpose of this study was to investigate the status of medical education studies by Iranian researchers among the educational publications indexed in Web of Science from 1990 to 2015.

This descriptive study was conducted using Co-Word analysis (a scientometrics method). The research population was comprised of all Iranian scientific outputs in the field of education, indexed in the Web of Science database between 1990 to 2015.

The review yielded a total of 2954 articles by 6643 authors. Three influential and prolific authors were affiliated with medical sciences universities. The words education, student, health, women, learning, knowledge, risk, medicine, quality, and school were the most widely used words among the concepts under study.

With a remarkable growth in Iran, medical education has attracted the greatest part of educational research in recent years, such that the articles by the most influential and prolific authors, top journals and institutes related to the subject of education in Web of Science are in the medical and paramedical field.

Scientific research in the medical sciences is known as a basic necessity for professional development which leads to clinical improvement. This study aims to compare the barriers to research activities among students of Arak University of Medical Sciences and provide proper strategies for student research management. This analytical comparative study was carried out in year 2012 on 325 students of Arak University of Medical Sciences. Non-researcer students were selected through stratified sampling while researcher students were selected by census. Data was collected using two researcher-made questionnaires classified using Likert scale that compared barriers existing in institutional and individual area. The scores given to these barriers were compared to those found by similar studies in 25 published articles. Strategies for improving student research management were validated using the Delphi technique. Validity and reliability of the questionnaires were confirmed and data was analyzed using ANOVA and t-test. According to the viewpoints of researcher students، mean score for barriers in instutional area was (3. 32±2. 14) and according to non-researcher students، mean score for existence of barriers in individual area was (3. 68±1. 98) which is considered high. The highest barrier scores belonged to the lack of of trained research assistants (4. 35±1. 3)، no application of research outcomes in the community (4. 25±. 9)، and students’ unfamiliarity with digital library (4. 31±1. 5). The mean score of institutional barriers given by non-researcher students was significantly different among different schools (p=0. 001). No significant correlation was observed between gender or students’ grand point averages with scores of research barriers (p>0/05). Finally improvement strategies for students’ reasearch management in three fields of structure، process، and function were represented. This research emphasises on the required infrastructures for student researches، taking benefit of well-trained research assistants and encorporating research methodology course in curricula of all medical sciences disciplines as the main basis for student research activity improvement.