Tunis Med. 2022;100(5):396-402.
To assess the writing quality of the theses defended at the Faculty of Medicine of Sousse (FMSo).
This is a bibliometric, transversal and exhaustive study done on all theses defended at the FMSo between 2001 and 2005. The writing quality of the thesis was assessed, via double reading, by a grid applied to its abstract. This grid was composed of 20 items detailing the principles of scientific writing. A thesis was considered "satisfactory" when the writing score was ≥15 / 20.
During this five-year period, 670 theses was defended at the FMSo (an average of 134 theses per year), which in 93% of cases were research ones. All these theses were written in French except for one. On a 20-point scale, the average thesis editorial score was 14.1 ± 2.2. The writing quality was judged satisfactory in 47% of the theses. The objective of the thesis, research design and study population were mentioned, respectively, in 81%, 77% and 91% of theses abstracts. However, the descriptors chosen were MeSH words in only 42% of the time; Data sources and standard deviation were mentioned in only 25% and 9.6% of the abstracts, respectively.
The writing quality of the thesis at the FMSo suffered mainly from documentary, methodological and statistical insufficiencies. The introduction of a scientific medical writing module in the curriculum of the FMSo would be essential for the optimization of the medical thesis.
评估苏塞医学院（FMSo）论文的写作质量。
这是一项在 2001 年至 2005 年期间在 FMSo 进行的所有论文的文献计量学、横断和详尽研究。通过对其摘要进行双次阅读，使用适用于其的网格评估论文的写作质量。该网格由 20 个项目组成，详细说明科学写作的原则。当写作分数≥15/20 时，认为论文“令人满意”。
在这五年期间，FMSo 共发表了 670 篇论文（平均每年 134 篇），其中 93%的论文为研究论文。除了一篇外，所有这些论文均用法语书写。在 20 分制中，平均论文编辑评分 14.1±2.2。在论文中，47%的论文写作质量被认为是令人满意的。论文的目标、研究设计和研究人群分别在论文摘要的 81%、77%和 91%中提及。然而，只有 42%的时间选择了 MeSH 词作为描述符；只有 25%和 9.6%的摘要分别提及了数据源和标准差。
FMSo 论文的写作质量主要存在文献、方法和统计方面的不足。在 FMSo 的课程中引入科学医学写作模块对于优化医学论文至关重要。
