فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

CONTEXT: Research experience helps an undergraduate student to understand published works, tolearn teamwork, and even to consider research as a career. Few medical institutions have attemptedto engage undergraduates in research experience. Competency‑based medical education hasemerged as a core strategy to educate and assess medical students worldwide.AIMS: This study aims to develop and implement a competency‑based research methodology trainingmodule for undergraduate students and find out students’ perception about this.SETTINGS AND DESIGN: A cross‑sectional study of mixed design was undertaken in the Departmentof Community Medicine, UCMS, Delhi, India.METHODOLOGY: A competency‑based research training module was developed and implementedwith 4th semester undergraduate students posted in the department. Students’ feedback about themodule was obtained.STATISTICAL ANALYSIS USED: For quantitative variables, means, ranges, medians, andpercentages were calculated. To find out students’ perception about the posting a qualitative analysiswas done.RESULTS: The module was implemented with 25 students posted in the department in May 2017.However, feedback was obtained from 23 students. About 83% of the students reported as highlysatisfied with the posting, 61% of the students mentioned that after completion of this posting, theyfelt motivated to do further research. A qualitative analysis of the feedback showed that studentsfound the project helped them to enhance their knowledge and develop skills.CONCLUSIONS: Competency‑based research methodology training can serve as a tool for teachingresearch methodology to undergraduate students.