بررسی پایان نامه‌های دانشجویان فارغ التحصیل دانشگاه علوم پزشکی قزوین

ABSTRACT Background: Qazvin University of Medical Sciences produces about 60 general practitioners,40 general dentists and 20 specialists each year and the students will be graduated by presenting their theses. The objective of this study was to evaluate the theses of all graduates from 1993-1998. 244 theses were reviewed by the writers and the data were collected in checklists. Of 244 theses, 209 were written by interns,28 by deristry students and 13 by the vesidents. 241 dissertations were supervised by clinical supervisors and the rest by professors pf basic sciences. The frequency destribution of the subjects were 25% pediatrics,17.6% internal medicine, 11.5% surgery. On the aspect of research design, 15.6% were desk studies or review articles,79.9% descriptive ,11.2% analytic observational and only 0.8% experimenal .when considering Considering the manner of making -up and presentation „much irregularities were found.21.87 / had failed in writing abstracts,problemdefinitions,objectives,litrature review results and discussion. The most frequent weaknesses were on litraturereview,material and methods and references. It is concluded that all supervisors and students should attend research methodology workshops before selecting a research topic.