Mohammad Mahdi Hayatbakhsh Abbasi; Ali Hosseininasab; Tahereh Alinaghi; Fatemeh Karami Robati
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Background Dissertations or theses are valuable sources of information, which play an important role in scientific development because of their specific nature and characteristics. Objectives The aim of this study was to investigate the status of medical students and residents' dissertations in terms ...
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Background Dissertations or theses are valuable sources of information, which play an important role in scientific development because of their specific nature and characteristics. Objectives The aim of this study was to investigate the status of medical students and residents' dissertations in terms of contribution to scientific development in Kerman University of Medical Sciences. Methods This cross-sectional, analytical study examined the status of medical students and residents' dissertations, submitted to the Medical Faculty of Kerman University of Medical Sciences during 2012 - 2015. First, the research deputy of Kerman University of Medical Sciences provided the dissertation information. Then, the information was analyzed in terms of study design, study type, extraction of Persian and English articles, publication in domestic and international journals, and indexing in reputable scientific databases in two groups of medical students and residents' dissertations. SPSS was used for all statistical analyses. Results In total, 643 dissertations were studied, including 342 (53%) residents and 301 (47%) medical students' thesis. Overall, 267 (41.5%) dissertations were published as articles in domestic and international journals. The findings showed that 13.4% of articles were indexed in the Scopus database. The mean scores of medical students and residents' dissertations were 19.22 ± 0.70 and 19.15 ± 0.85, respectively. Conclusions Despite the large number of medical students and residents' dissertations submitted to Kerman University of Medical Sciences, a limited number of dissertations were published as scientific and research papers, and the number of articles indexed in international journals was insignificant. Thesis writing is generally a unique opportunity for students to learn research skills and methods. In addition, publication of thesis findings in domestic and international databases can lead to scientific development.
Forougheh Montajeb; Zahra Atai; Hosein Safizadeh
Volume 6, Issue 1 , July 2009, , Pages 57-65
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Background & Objective: Maintaining the international standards and research elements in dissertations leads to clearly showing the results in a scientific way It also facilitates indexing abstracting and easily using them in information sources This study aimed to assess ISO 7144 standards ...
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Background & Objective: Maintaining the international standards and research elements in dissertations leads to clearly showing the results in a scientific way It also facilitates indexing abstracting and easily using them in information sources This study aimed to assess ISO 7144 standards and research elements in dissertations of different schools from 1999 to 2004 in Kerman University of Medical Sciences Methods: In this crosssectional study 602 dissertations in schools of medicine dentistry pharmacy and nursing (masters degree) were evaluated Data was collected using a checklist Results: Results of this study showed that there was a general ascending trend in maintaining ISO standards and research elements in the dissertations The mean rate of maintaining ISO standard and research elements in references (9081%) results (7787%) figures and tables (7729%) were higher than the other parts In literature review (484%) thesis statement (502%) and abstract (5518%) it was lower than other parts This score was the highest in the dissertations of the School of Nursing (709%) in comparison with the other three schools Conclusion: Our results suggest that although an ascending trend in maintaining ISO standards and research elements in the dissertations is met but the general status is not satisfactory Hence it is suggested that maintaining international standards become obligatory so internal dissertations would be applicable and documented in international spectrum together with improvement in quality
Afsaneh Borghei; Mohammad Reza Rabie; Sahar Ester Abadi; Ali Abtahi
Volume 4, Issue 2 , January 2008, , Pages 108-115
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Background & Objective: Writing dissertation is an opportunity for students to become familiar with methodology of a research process during the period of education In recent years there has been special emphasis on proper studies structure similar and scientific writing process in research reports ...
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Background & Objective: Writing dissertation is an opportunity for students to become familiar with methodology of a research process during the period of education In recent years there has been special emphasis on proper studies structure similar and scientific writing process in research reports and dissertations Attending methodology workshop for faculties and students together with preparing booklets has helped a lot but still there is a long way to meet the optimal standards This study was conducted to evaluate methodological structure of medical dissertations in Golestan University of Medical Sciences from 1996 to 2005 Methods : This is a descriptiveanalytic Study For data collection all of the dissertations (257) were studied and scored with a check list that was designed for a national research on thesis The maximum score for each thesis was 500 Results : The results showed that the mean score ( ± SD) of the dissertations has increased from 2699( ± 78) in 1996 to 3515( ± 331) in 2005 According to this study 769 percent of dissertations had statistical consultants and the most frequent design was crosssectional There was a significant relationship between final score of dissertations and grade of them (r=038 P=0039) The weakest parts of the dissertations were methodology then statement of problem and then discussion Conclusion : Although methodology structure of medical dissertations has improved considerably recently but there is a long way to reach optimal status Education of faculty members and students in research field guiding students for finding best tactics of research and supporting them to perform researches help to enhancement of dissertations quality This needs a fundamental reform in long term planning for medical education
