Publication pattern of medical theses, France, 1993-98

Salmi, Louis‐Rachid; Gana, Slimane; Mouillet, Évelyne

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2923.2001.00768.x

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“…In Germany, it is mandatory for medical students to submit a thesis outlining the results of a research project in order to graduate with the title "Doctor" [30]. This requirement has also been reported in Peru, Finland, France and some U.S. universities such as Yale [24,27,76,94]. The AAMC 2013 Graduation Questionnaire shows that 68.2% of US medical graduates participated in a research project with a faculty member on a mandatory or volunteer basis and 41.7% co-authored a research paper [7].…”

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Medical Student Research: An Integrated Mixed-Methods Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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ImportanceDespite the rapidly declining number of physician-investigators, there is no consistent structure within medical education so far for involving medical students in research.ObjectiveTo conduct an integrated mixed-methods systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies about medical students' participation in research, and to evaluate the evidence in order to guide policy decision-making regarding this issue.Evidence ReviewWe followed the PRISMA statement guidelines during the preparation of this review and meta-analysis. We searched various databases as well as the bibliographies of the included studies between March 2012 and September 2013. We identified all relevant quantitative and qualitative studies assessing the effect of medical student participation in research, without restrictions regarding study design or publication date. Prespecified outcome-specific quality criteria were used to judge the admission of each quantitative outcome into the meta-analysis. Initial screening of titles and abstracts resulted in the retrieval of 256 articles for full-text assessment. Eventually, 79 articles were included in our study, including eight qualitative studies. An integrated approach was used to combine quantitative and qualitative studies into a single synthesis. Once all included studies were identified, a data-driven thematic analysis was performed.Findings and ConclusionsMedical student participation in research is associated with improved short- and long- term scientific productivity, more informed career choices and improved knowledge about-, interest in- and attitudes towards research. Financial worries, gender, having a higher degree (MSc or PhD) before matriculation and perceived competitiveness of the residency of choice are among the factors that affect the engagement of medical students in research and/or their scientific productivity. Intercalated BSc degrees, mandatory graduation theses and curricular research components may help in standardizing research education during medical school.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Medical Student Research: An Integrated Mixed-Methods Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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“…Studies of text similarity in abstracts and titles have provided interesting approaches to detect papers derived from theses (Salmi et al 2001;Benotmane et al 2012;Caan and Cole 2012), although they have not been able to discern with clear evidence outputs emananting from theses. However, on the basis of full-text comparison of theses and articles of the same author, the Discussion section has demonstrated to be the essential part to identify the derivative articles.…”

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“…That means, on average, that 81.3 % of authors published related papers before or during the year of the thesis completion. Other authors reported publications of medical students using different criteria, such as: Salmi et al (2001) on French medical theses, with any article registered before the thesis submission, 14 papers (27.5 %) in the year of presentation, with a cumulative proportion of 49.0 % of papers having been published after 2 years. Dhaliwal et al (2010) on medical theses in an Indian university did not include the possibility of articles derived before or during the year of the thesis completion, and Larivière (2012) in a study about the contribution of Canadian PhD students in peer reviewed students revealed that 63 % of doctoral students in health contributed to at least one paper during their doctorate, although any relationship with their PhD thesis was reported.…”

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confidence: 99%

Medical theses and derivative articles: dissemination of contents and publication patterns

2014

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Doctoral theses are an important source of publication in universities, although little research has been carried out on the publications resulting from theses, on so-called derivative articles. This study investigates how derivative articles can be identified through a text analysis based on the full-text of a set of medical theses and the full-text of articles, with which they shared authorship. The text similarity analysis methodology applied consisted in exploiting the full-text articles according to organization of scientific discourse IMRaD (Introduction, Methodology, Results and Discussion) using the TurnItIn plagiarism tool. The study found that the text similarity rate in the Discussion section can be used to discriminate derivative articles from non-derivative articles. Additional findings were: the first position of the thesis's author dominated in 85 % of derivative articles, the participation of supervisors as coauthors occurred in 100 % of derivative articles, the authorship credit retained by the thesis's author was 42 % in derivative articles, the number of coauthors by article was 5 in derivative articles versus 6.4 coauthors, as average, in nonderivative articles and the time differential regarding the year of thesis completion showed that 87.5 % of derivative articles were published before or in the same year of thesis completion.

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“…5 Although these theses are recognized by the scientific community as official scientific documents, theses are seldom read by more than a few scientists, because they are usually available only in University libraries or in the Library of the Council of Higher Education, written in Turkish language only, and not indexed in international databases. Research results, which are published in relevant literature, will become more readable and easy accessible through secondary publication to all scientists.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%