From the National Council on Undergraduate Research definition, "An inquiry or investigation conducted by an undergraduate student that makes an original intellectual or creative contribution to the discipline." According to a joint statement from the National Conference on Undergraduate Research and the Council on Undergraduate Research (2005): "Undergraduate research is the pedagogy for the 21st century." AIMThis study was conducted to assess the awareness, knowledge and attitude of undergraduate students about medical research. METHODOLOGYTo conduct this study, we enrolled 235 students from II year MBBS, V and III semester in Kurnool Medical College. Ethical committee approval and oral informed consent was taken. We gave a questionnaire of 25 questions and given enough time to answer the questions. RESULTSAlmost 98% of students think that it is necessary to know about research as an undergraduate; 57% of students heard about ICMR. Only 10% of students know about Ethical committee research protocol and inform consent. Only 8% of students attended conference and 2% of students presented poster in conference; 3% of students wrote research protocol; 91% of students agree that statistics were essential for research. Reasons for not participating in research were lack of awareness (76%), lack of knowledge (53%), lack of guidance (90%), lack of time (33%), lack of money (40%) and no need of participating as undergraduate (20%). CONCLUSIONAll students were having good awareness and interested to participate in research. All students strongly felt that they need motivation and guidance from their teachers. KEYWORDSAwareness, Knowledge, Medical Research, Undergraduates. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Rajeswaramma G, Kumari DA, Jayasree D, et al. Awareness on medical research among undergraduates in a tertiary teaching hospital: a cross sectional questionnaire based study. J. Evolution Med. Dent. Sci. 2016;5(71): 5173-5175, DOI: 10.14260/jemds/2016/1173 INTRODUCTION In the broadest sense of the word, the definition of research includes any gathering of data, information and facts for the advancement of knowledge. Medical research is the basic research, applied research or translational research conducted to aid and support the development of knowledge in the field of medicine. An important kind of medical research is clinical research, which is distinguished by the involvement of patients. Other kinds of medical research include preclinical research, for example on animals and basic medical research, for example in genetics. There have been dramatic and drastic changes in the era since the turn of the 21st century to date in medical research. Financial or Other, Competing Interest: None. Submission 27-07-2016, Peer Review 22-08-2016, Acceptance 27-08-2016, Published 03-09-2016. Corresponding Author: Dr. G. Rajeswaramma, H. No: 45/24-B6, Ashok Nagar, Kurnool-518005, Andhra Pradesh. E-mail: dr.rajeswaramma@gmail.com DOI: 10.14260/jemds/2016/1173 The quality research in India is limited. As per the information a...
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