Knowledge Attitudes and Barriers of Undergraduate Medical StudentsTowards Research in University of Babylon

Abstract

Objective of the study: To evaluate the attitude and knowledge and barriers of a sample of Iraqi medical undergraduate students( in Babylon college of medicine and college of dentistry) toward research. Across sectional study was done using self-administered pretested questionnaire to measure the knowledge ,barriers and attitudes of students toward research. Two hundred eight students were responded to this study from Hammurabi medical college, and college of dentistry in the University of Babylon. Females constituted 67%. The female to male ratio was 2:1. Regarding barriers to conducting research activities the study revealed that ( 55.3% )of the students had efficient internet connection and 1.5% had no internet connection at home This study explained that the skill of English language writing is very low, only 5.3% of them mentioned that they had very good skill of writing in 66.5 % mentioned that they had intermediate level of writing English. Regarding speaking English language (which is the language of training for the medical students) only one in fifth of them had good skill in speaking fluent English language. Regarding the attitude 73.3% of the participants had positive attitudes and they mentioned that they are interested in conducting research during undergraduate training.