Springer J R, Baer L J
Department of Psychiatry, Grand Rapids Campus, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine.
J Med Educ. 1988 Aug;63(8):591-5. doi: 10.1097/00001888-198808000-00001.
The authors conducted a study to collect information on the teaching of research-related topics at medical schools. A questionnaire was developed and mailed to appropriate administrators of all accredited United States, Canadian, and Puerto Rican medical schools that asked for information on courses offered in epidemiology, statistics, evaluation of medical literature, and research design. Ninety-seven percent of the medical schools responded to the questionnaire. All but one of the 139 respondents reported offering formal instruction in at least one of the four topics; epidemiology and statistics were offered by 98 percent and 96 percent, respectively, of the responding schools. Training in evaluating medical literature was required by slightly less than half of the responding schools, and research methodology was required by one-third. Future studies should evaluate the effectiveness of such courses.
作者开展了一项研究，以收集有关医学院校研究相关主题教学的信息。他们编制了一份调查问卷，并邮寄给美国、加拿大和波多黎各所有获得认证的医学院校的相关管理人员，询问有关流行病学、统计学、医学文献评估和研究设计等课程的信息。97%的医学院校回复了问卷。139名受访者中，除一人外，均报告至少在四个主题中的一个提供了正式教学；回复的学校中，分别有98%和96%提供了流行病学和统计学教学。略少于一半的回复学校要求进行医学文献评估培训，三分之一的学校要求进行研究方法培训。未来的研究应评估此类课程的效果。
