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dc.contributor.authorJacobsen, Geir Wenberg
dc.contributor.authorRæder, Helge
dc.contributor.authorStien, Marianne Heldal
dc.contributor.authorMunthe, Ludvig Andre
dc.contributor.authorSkogen, Vegard
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-03T17:02:44Z
dc.date.available2018-09-03T17:02:44Z
dc.date.issued2018-04-30
dc.description.abstractOver the last decades there has been a decline in the recruitment of medical students into academia in all medical fields. Concurrently, medical research has increasingly included other disciplines in multidisciplinary convergence, introducing an unmet recruitment gap and requirement for medical researchers. To counteract the trend and recruit students to academic medicine, a national intercalated Medical Student Research Program (MSRP) was established in Norway in 2002. A preliminary evaluation in 2009 suggested that the MSRP had resulted in recruitment, but could not conclude on a lasting effect beyond graduation in a study that did not include any controls. These results led us to hypothesize that the MSRP could increase the number of PhD degrees and attract medical students towards academic medicine. Adopting a case cohort design, we here report that the intercalated MSRP had a significant impact of the throughput of physician-scientists to PhD, by increasing the rate of PhD completion 10-fold (p<0.001). Moreover, almost twice as many MSRP physicians reported an academic aspiration (49% vs 22%, p<0.001). Results suggested that an MSRP-like approach could efficiently address the unmet recruitment gap and strengthen the medical disciplines in medical research.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Research Council of Norway The Norwegian Department of Education and Scienceen_US
dc.descriptionThis is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Jacobsen, G.W., Ræder, H., Stien, M., Munthe, L.A. & Skogen, V. (2018). Springboard to an academic career—A national medical student research program. <i>PLoS ONE</i>, 13:e0195527(4), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195527, which has been published in final form at <a href=https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195527> https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195527</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.citationJacobsen, G.W., Ræder, H., Stien, M., Munthe, L.A. & Skogen, V. (2018). Springboard to an academic career—A national medical student research program. PLoS ONE, 13:e0195527(4), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195527en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1582885
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0195527
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/13640
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen_US
dc.relation.journalPLoS ONE
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Medisinske Fag: 700en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Medical disciplines: 700en_US
dc.subjectMedicine and health sciencesen_US
dc.subjectCareersen_US
dc.subjectMedical educationen_US
dc.titleSpringboard to an academic career—A national medical student research programen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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