Kordestani Moghaddam Azadeh, Esmaillzadeh Ahmad, Azadbakht Leila
Department of Medical Education, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Community Nutrition, School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
J Educ Health Promot. 2019 Jun 27;8:109. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_37_19. eCollection 2019.
One of the important challenges at the Universities of Medical Sciences is the mentorship of postgraduate students' academic theses. Since 2015, the Research Mentorship Program (RMP) has been implemented with the aim of improving research knowledge and skill, thesis quality, and quantity and quality of papers of emerging from postgraduate students' theses.
This was a prospective cohort study with census sampling method (nonprobability sampling), completed between 2015 and 2018. Twenty-eight postgraduate students participated in the program. Each trainee student is done during the research period through the supervisor and another student in a higher level of education as mentor. Questionnaire with open-ended questions and checklist was used for data gathering. For statistical analysis, Chi-square test was used.
100% of the mentors and 93% of the mentee participated at the Research Mentorship Program were satisfied. In addition, the duration of the research course for the master's students participated in the RMP was reduced. Participants in this program had higher quantity and quality of papers resulting from postgraduate student's academic theses. RMP can enhance the postgraduate students' knowledge and skills in their research projects and research methods, develop personal and professional relationships, and promote interpersonal communication as a student or mentor.
This program and its similar programs can improve the quality of postgraduate students' academic theses and reduce their research period.
医学科学大学面临的重要挑战之一是研究生学术论文的指导。自2015年以来，实施了研究指导计划（RMP），旨在提高研究知识和技能、论文质量以及研究生论文产出的论文数量和质量。
这是一项采用普查抽样方法（非概率抽样）的前瞻性队列研究，于2015年至2018年完成。28名研究生参与了该计划。每位受训学生在研究期间由导师和另一名更高学历的学生作为导师指导。使用开放式问题问卷和清单进行数据收集。统计分析采用卡方检验。
参与研究指导计划的导师满意度为100%，学员满意度为93%。此外，参与RMP的硕士生的研究课程时长缩短。该计划的参与者所产出的研究生学术论文在数量和质量上都更高。RMP可以提高研究生在研究项目和研究方法方面的知识和技能，发展个人和职业关系，并促进作为学生或导师的人际交流。
该计划及其类似计划可以提高研究生学术论文的质量并缩短其研究周期。
