Department of Urology and the Centre for Applied Urological Research, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
BMC Med Educ. 2010 Jan 22;10:4. doi: 10.1186/1472-6920-10-4.
An observed decrease of physician scientists in medical practice has generated much recent interest in increasing the exposure of research programs in medical school. The aim of this study was to review the experience and attitudes regarding research by medical students in Canada.
An anonymous, cross-sectional, self-report questionnaire was administered to second and fourth year students in three medical schools in Ontario between February and May of 2005. Questions were primarily closed-ended and consisted of Likert scales. Descriptive and correlative statistics were used to analyze the responses between students of different years and previous research experience.
There was a 47% (327/699) overall response rate to the questionnaire. Despite 87% of respondents reporting that they had been involved in some degree of research prior to medical school, 43% report that they have not been significantly involved in research activity during medical school and 24% had no interest in any participation. There were significant differences in the attitudes towards research endeavors during medical school between students in their fourth year compared to second year. The greatest barriers to involvement in research in medical school appear to be time, availability of research mentors, formal teaching of research methodology and the perception that the student would not receive appropriate acknowledgement for work put towards a research project.
The results of this self-report survey outline the significant differences in attitudes towards mandatory research as a component of critical inquiry and scholarship in the undergraduate curriculum in Ontario medical schools.
在医学实践中，观察到医师科学家的数量有所减少，这引发了人们对增加医学院研究计划曝光率的浓厚兴趣。本研究旨在回顾加拿大医学生从事研究的经验和态度。
2005 年 2 月至 5 月，在安大略省的三所医学院，对二年级和四年级的学生进行了一项匿名、横断面、自我报告的问卷调查。问题主要是封闭式的，采用了李克特量表。采用描述性和相关性统计方法分析了不同年级和有先前研究经验的学生之间的回答。
共有 699 名学生中的 47%（327 名）对问卷做出了回应。尽管 87%的受访者报告说他们在进入医学院之前曾从事过某种程度的研究，但 43%的受访者报告说他们在医学院期间并没有参与过实质性的研究活动，24%的受访者对任何参与都不感兴趣。与二年级学生相比，四年级学生对医学研究的态度存在显著差异。参与医学研究的最大障碍似乎是时间、研究导师的可用性、研究方法的正式教学以及学生认为他们在研究项目上的工作不会得到适当认可。
本自我报告调查的结果概述了安大略省医学院本科课程中，对强制性研究作为批判性探究和学术组成部分的态度存在显著差异。
