Importance of health research in South Asia

Sadana, Ritu; D’Souza, Carol; Hyder, Adnan A.; Chowdhury, A Mushtaque R

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“…Slow advances however, have been made in medical research in developing countries. Now, more funding, is also available [3]. Nevertheless, the quality of research is affected by lack of expertise in research skills.…”

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Should Research be Made Compulsory in Medical School?

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Background: Healthcare decision-making is mostly reliant on evidence-based medicine. Building and upgrading skills in scientific reasoning and thinking amongst medical students has now became an important part of medical education. But due to unforeseen reasons, medical students in developing countries have no or very little opportunities to develop research skills and become evidence based physician-scientist. Moreover, there is also an alarming decline in the current number of physician-scientists, which also threatens the progress of translational medicine in the upcoming era. The compulsion of research work in residency, has no doubt, increased the quantity, but the quality has subsided. The only way, to improve the quality of research and medical evidence based health care, is by inculcating various research programs in school and motivating the professors and subsequently, the medical students. Many schools around the world have started various research training programs and the results are astonishing. Hence we suggest, instead of making research compulsory, there should be a location and school based research program which can help in developing interest.

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“…[2] South Asia comprised only 1.2% of all annual research on health topics. [3] With time constrains the difficulty becomes more for doctors to comply with the present scenario of publishing articles with an enormity which is ever increasing. This may somehow adulterate the attitude of authors towards research, making them confused of all the responsibility for why they publish?…”

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Medical Research in India – “Comprehending Challenges and Quest for Renaissance”

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“…Moreover, case studies from Nepal, Bangladesh, and Pakistan report that the bulk of government funding for research goes towards training, salaries, and infrastructure, resulting in research projects being largely funded (and influenced) by external donors 5 . Until recently, most health researchers in Nepal worked individually rather than in institutions.…”

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Research Methods Coverage in Medical and Health Science Curricula in Nepal

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Nepal J Epidemiology

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Higher education institutions in Nepal have been offering different types of health sciences programmes over the last few decades. With the growing number of education institutions, the range of programmes has also increased. Currently, five higher education institutions – TU, KU, PU, PoU and BPKIHS are providing health sciences course at undergraduate and graduate level. TU being the leading university to offer most of health science programmes, there is observable influence in the curriculum contents and design of the remaining four institutions. However, a variation is observed in structure of curriculum within and between institutions. The curricula of Pokhara University are better designed and recent compared to other while the curricula of TU are less revised and comparatively old. Curricula in general health sciences are detailed and favourable to research methodology contents. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/nje.v3i3.9185 Nepal Journal of Epidemiology 2013;3(3): 253-258

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Importance of health research in South Asia

Cited by 79 publications

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Should Research be Made Compulsory in Medical School?

Should Research be Made Compulsory in Medical School?

Medical Research in India – “Comprehending Challenges and Quest for Renaissance”

Research Methods Coverage in Medical and Health Science Curricula in Nepal

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