TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shrestha,Oshan.
TI  - A report on student’s perspective on incorporation of research methodology in undergraduate medical curriculum
PY  - 2022///
KW  -  student’s perspective
KW  - Incorporation of research methodology
N1  - Thesis Report
N2  - SUMMARY:

This study is awarded Undergraduate Research Grant by Nepal Health Research Council 
(NHRC). This study was carried out to assess the perspective of undergraduate medical 
students on incorporating research methodology in the undergraduate medical curriculum. 
Since there is increasing interest among the new generation of medical students towards 
research, this study aimed to establish this through data and know their perception on 
incorporating research methodology in the curriculum itself. 
Exposing medical students towards research has benefits like having a paper published in one’s 
name, being able to stand out for the competition for residencies, having a better understanding 
of diagnostic techniques, and aiding those who aspire to be physician-scientists. Since 
developed nations have already taken the initiative to encourage medical students in research, 
it’s high time for a virgin country like ours to take initiative to produce manpower that can live 
up to the needs of the nation in terms of innovation and research. 
This study was conducted among medical students studying under Tribhuvan University and 
systematic sampling method was applied for the selection of the respondents. The study tool 
was developed on a five-point Likert scale. Frequency is calculated for all the variables and 
ordinal regression is carried out for the variable of interest which is the question of 
incorporating research methodology in the undergraduate medical curriculum. A P-value less 
than 0.05 is considered significant. 
The study had 351 respondents. 223 (63.5%) were males and the mean age of the participants 
was 22.58 ± 1.585 years. Nearly 84% of students think that research methodology should be 
incorporated into the curriculum and 84.9% of the responders believe that getting students 
involved in research studies will increase the standard of medical education of the country. 
75.5% of the students are interested in learning about study designs and statistical methods if training is provided to them, while, 46.2% of the responders have already attended 
webinars/seminars to get oriented towards research methodologies that were conducted by 
other organizations. The majority of the students (75.8%) of the students want research 
methodology to be incorporated in the pre-clinical phase of medical school.  Students who were 
interested in reading research articles had 3.085 times more odds of agreeing while increasing 
age was associated with a decrease in odds by 0.772 times in agreeing to incorporate research 
methodology in the curriculum.  
The majority of medical students are interested in being part of research studies. Initiatives that 
can back up this interest of a new generation of medical students to establish the concept of 
physician-scientist should be taken by the stakeholders. Incorporating research methodology 
in the curriculum, in the pre-clinical phase, will be a great support to the interest of medical 
students. This will also orient students towards evidence-based practice in their professional 
life, improving the patient outcome in long term.
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