Zinat Salem; Mohsen Rezaeian; Siyavash Dehghan
Volume 4, Issue 1 , July 2007, , Pages 36-43
Abstract
Background & Objective: The validity of a thesis is important from two perspectives First the research issue by itself and second the references that are used in the research The present study was designed to investigate the bibliographies of the theses of Medical students in Rafsanjan University ...
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Background & Objective: The validity of a thesis is important from two perspectives First the research issue by itself and second the references that are used in the research The present study was designed to investigate the bibliographies of the theses of Medical students in Rafsanjan University Methods : In this crosssectional study all of the defended theses of Rafsanjan Medical students from 1993 to 2003 (a total of 332 theses) were evaluated Bibliographies were assessed by using a check list Data analysis was done by applying descriptive and analytical statistical methods Results : Mean ( ± SD) of the number of references was 259( ± 1899) and 12% of the theses have not used any references There was no reference to electronic publications and review articles in the studied theses English articles had the highest rate of citation (161%) and abstracts presented in the congresses the lowest (008 %) In whole 61100% of the references belonged to five years prior to the study In 885% of the theses bibliography writing was according to the standard styles Conclusion : It is suggested that by planning educational workshops students be taught to benefit from using more recent scientific published or electronic references in writing their theses
Mohsen Rezaeian; Zinat Salem; Siyavash Dehghan; Ahmad Reza Sayadi; Farhad Iranmanesh; Mohammad Hasan Ahmadi
Volume 2, Issue 2 , January 2006, , Pages 72-79
Abstract
Background: Submitting thesis is one of the most important tasks of medical students Moreover medical theses can be considered as a basic source for improving the health statues of the society Objective: The aim of this study was critical appraisal of the submitted theses by medical students of Rafsanjan ...
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Background: Submitting thesis is one of the most important tasks of medical students Moreover medical theses can be considered as a basic source for improving the health statues of the society Objective: The aim of this study was critical appraisal of the submitted theses by medical students of Rafsanjan Medical School during 1993 2003 Methods : In the present cross sectional study 332 Medical theses were evaluated by using a questionnaire Data analysis was done by using simple descriptive methods and Chi square test Results: According to the results 258 theses (777%) have been well written Theses submitted during the recent years had better quality comparing to others (924% versus 739%) Theses supervised by more than one leader were better in comparison to those with only one leader (915% versus 739% P= 0002) Moreover theses with at least one advisor had a better quality than those conducted without any advisor (884% versus 397% P= 00001) Conclusion : Better quality of theses submitted during the recent years can show the beneficial effect of participation of both medical students and their supervisors in Research Methodology Workshops held in the recent years This fact has also been reported in other studies
