Scholarly concentration programs and medical student research productivity: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Scholarly concentration programs have become a common method to promote student inquiry and independent research in medical schools. Given the high resource requirements of scholarly concentration program implementation, it is important to examine program efficacy. This systematic review examined the impact of scholarly concentration programs on student research productivity.

Methods

The authors carried out a literature search to find articles related to scholarly concentration program research productivity outcomes. The inclusion criterion was a method of rigorously evaluating program scholarly productivity. Study rigour was evaluated with the Medical Education Research Study Quality Instrument.

Results

The initial search disclosed 2467 unique records: 7

SUBMITTER: Havnaer AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5542888 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature