Boly A, Tachfouti N, Zohoungbogbo I S S, Achhab Y El, Nejjari C
Laboratoire d'Épidémiologie, Recherche Clinique et Santé Communautaire, Faculté de Médecine et Pharmacie, Fès (Maroc).
Médecin généraliste, lauréate de la Faculté de Médecine et Pharmacie, Fès (Maroc).
East Mediterr Health J. 2014 Jun 9;20(5):340-6.
A thesis in medicine is a scientific work which allows a medical student to acquire a Doctor of Medicine degree. It is therefore recommended that theses presented by students fulfill essential methodological criteria in order to obtain scientifically credible results and recommendations. The aim of this study was to assess the methodology of thesis presented to the Faculty of Medicine in Fez in 2008. We developed an evaluation table containing questions on the different sections of the IMRAD structure on which these theses were based and we estimated the proportion of theses that conformed to each criterion. There were 160 theses on various specialties presented in 2008. The majority of the theses (79.3%) were case series. Research questions were clearly expressed in 62.0% but the primary objectives were pertinent in only 52.0%. Our study shows that there were important deficiencies in the methodological rigor of the theses and very little representation of the theses in publications.
医学论文是医学生获得医学博士学位的一项科研成果。因此，建议学生提交的论文应满足基本的方法学标准，以便获得科学可信的结果和建议。本研究的目的是评估2008年提交给非斯医学院的论文的方法学。我们制定了一个评估表，其中包含基于这些论文的IMRAD结构不同部分的问题，并估计了符合每个标准的论文比例。2008年共提交了160篇关于各个专业的论文。大多数论文（79.3%）为病例系列研究。62.0%的论文明确表达了研究问题，但只有52.0%的论文主要目标恰当。我们的研究表明，这些论文在方法学严谨性方面存在重大缺陷，且在出版物中的发表率极低。
