Al-Tannir Mohamad, Abu-Shaheen Amani, AlSumaih Saleh, AlMukaibil Nawaf F, AlHarbi Ryan, Heena Humariya, Sallout Luai, Mahha Adeebah, Marran Nasser Mohammed, AlFayyad Isamme
Research Center, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, SAU.
College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, SAU.
Cureus. 2018 Aug 11;10(8):e3132. doi: 10.7759/cureus.3132.
Introduction This study assessed the impact of a summer research training course on the knowledge levels and skills of medical and allied health students. Methods A one group pretest-posttest quasi-experiment study was conducted during a summer research course at King Fahad Medical City, Saudi Arabia. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed among course participants twice, on the first day (pretest) and the last day of the course (posttest). The questionnaire consisted of four sections: study design, literature review, formulation of a research question, and biostatistics. Results A total of 44 participants were included in the study, of whom 27 (61.4%) were medical students. The overall mean score of correct responses of the participants was 17.70±4.00 in the pretest compared to 22.18±6.64 in the posttest (p<0.001). The mean score of the correct responses of the participants in the "study design" pretest section was (4.23±1.51) compared to (10.23 ± 3.71) in the posttest, (p<0.001). While for the literature review section, the mean score of the correct responses in the pretest was (2.20±1.19) and (2.77±1.34) in the posttest, (p=0.027). Moreover, our results revealed that all participants (100%) were able to execute all the steps of a research project and 6 (13.64%) participants were able to submit papers for publication. Conclusions Our results showed that a research training program might enhance research knowledge and skills in terms of the successful accomplishment of relevant assessment tasks among medical and allied health students.
引言 本研究评估了一个暑期研究培训课程对医学及相关健康专业学生知识水平和技能的影响。方法 在沙特阿拉伯法赫德国王医疗城的一个暑期研究课程期间，进行了一项单组前测-后测准实验研究。在课程的第一天（前测）和最后一天（后测），向课程参与者分发了一份自填式问卷。问卷包括四个部分：研究设计、文献综述、研究问题的制定和生物统计学。结果 共有44名参与者纳入研究，其中27名（61.4%）是医学专业学生。参与者正确回答的总体平均得分在前测中为17.70±4.00，后测中为22.18±6.64（p<0.001）。参与者在“研究设计”前测部分正确回答的平均得分是（4.23±1.51），后测中为（10.23±3.71），（p<0.001）。而在文献综述部分，前测中正确回答的平均得分是（2.20±1.19），后测中是（2.77±1.34），（p=0.027）。此外，我们的结果显示所有参与者（100%）都能够执行研究项目的所有步骤，6名（13.64%）参与者能够提交论文发表。结论 我们的结果表明，一个研究培训项目可能会提高医学及相关健康专业学生在成功完成相关评估任务方面的研究知识和技能。
