Report Summarizes Professional Education Study Findings from University of Health Sciences (A thirteen year audit of manuscripts related to medical…

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Report Summarizes Professional Education Study Findings from University of Health Sciences (A thirteen year audit of manuscripts related to medical education published in leading medical journals of Pakistan)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Week -- Investigators discuss new findings in Professional Education. According to news reporting from Lahore, Pakistan, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, "To audit the number and type of published articles related to medical education in leading Pakistani biomedical journals. The audit covered the period from January 2001 to December 2013."

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the University of Health Sciences, "Journals either indexed in Medline or having an impact factor were selected. The audit was done in two phases. First, articles related to medical education were screened by reading the titles. Then abstracts were studied and articles were placed into several pre-defined categories based on article type and research topic. Data was analysed using SPSS 20. A total of 118 relevant articles were published. Of them, 60(51%) articles were published in the Journal of Pakistan Medical Association, 42(35.6%) in the Journal of College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan, 4(3.4%) in Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences, and 12(10.2%) in the Journal of Ayub Medical College. Articles related to curriculum development were 33(28.0 %), teaching 28(23.7%), assessment 29(24.6%), faculty training 5(4.2%), continuous medical education 4(3.4%), ethics 3(2.5%), and others 16(13.6%)."

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: "There is a need to increase the quality of health profession education research, documentation and audit of the global contribution of Pakistani medical educationists."

For more information on this research see: A thirteen year audit of manuscripts related to medical education published in leading medical journals of Pakistan. Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, 2016;66(4):439-41 (see also Professional Education).

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting F.A. Rathore, Dept. of Rehabilitation Medicine, CMH Lahore Medical College and Institute of Dentistry, University of Health Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan. Additional authors for this research include A. Waqas and A.M Zia.

Keywords for this news article include: Asia, Lahore, Pakistan, Medical Education, Professional Education.