Baig Shoukat Ali, Hasan Syed Askari, Ahmed Syed Mustajab, Ejaz Kiran, Aziz Sina, Dohadhwala Nava Asad
Final Year Medical Student, Dow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
Educ Health (Abingdon). 2013 May-Aug;26(2):117-21. doi: 10.4103/1357-6283.120705.
Previously, in a low-income country with limited resources like Pakistan, biomedical research was conducted mostly by individuals working in private organizations. Recently, there has been an upsurge in the number of medical students conducting research in both private and public medical colleges of Karachi, Pakistan. We investigated student perceptions of the reasons behind the increase in biomedical research among medical students of private and public medical colleges in Karachi, Pakistan.
This cross-sectional study was conducted at four medical universities of Karachi, using structured data collection tool. Participants included medical students who stated that they were interested in medical research. We assessed how many had been involved in research or stated that they intended to be, and tallied students' stated reasons why they were involved in research. Chi-square analyses were used to assess if year of training, institution, and other factors were associated with the likelihood of past or current actual research involvement.
Out of the 398 students with research interest who participated in the study, 349 (88%) stated that they intended to do research projects in their undergraduate years. At the time of the study, only 202 (51%) reported that they had actually conducted research. The reasons given for engaging in research for a minority included personal interest (n = 136; 34%), while majority stated that their motivation was to improve their curriculum vitae (75%) and/or to be more competitive for a residency in the United States (43%). The reasons students gave for involvement in research were related to whether their schools were public versus private and to their year of study.
According to students' reports, improving one's curriculum vitae to get a strong residency in the USA appeared to be a principal reason for the increase in biomedical research in Karachi. The challenges of research, such as lack of good mentors and increased work-load were reported to affect few students' ability to engage in research.
此前，在像巴基斯坦这样资源有限的低收入国家，生物医学研究主要由在私人机构工作的个人开展。最近，在巴基斯坦卡拉奇的私立和公立医学院进行研究的医学生数量激增。我们调查了巴基斯坦卡拉奇私立和公立医学院医学生对生物医学研究增加背后原因的看法。
这项横断面研究在卡拉奇的四所医科大学进行，使用结构化数据收集工具。参与者包括表示对医学研究感兴趣的医学生。我们评估了有多少人参与过研究或表示打算参与研究，并统计了学生参与研究的所述原因。卡方分析用于评估培训年份、机构和其他因素是否与过去或当前实际参与研究的可能性相关。
在参与研究的398名有研究兴趣的学生中，349名（88%）表示他们打算在本科阶段开展研究项目。在研究时，只有202名（51%）报告称他们实际进行过研究。少数人参与研究的原因包括个人兴趣（n = 136；34%），而大多数人表示他们的动机是改善简历（75%）和/或在美国获得住院医师资格时更具竞争力（43%）。学生参与研究的原因与他们的学校是公立还是私立以及学习年份有关。
根据学生的报告，改善简历以在美国获得有力的住院医师资格似乎是卡拉奇生物医学研究增加的主要原因。据报告，研究的挑战，如缺乏优秀导师和工作量增加，对少数学生参与研究的能力有影响。
