Uprising trend of research among medical students in Pakistan

ABSTRACT

Medical students these days are increasingly involved in the research projects, as well as article writing. The most common reason for increase in research activity is to improve the Curriculum Vitae for competitive USA and UK residencies. Furthermore few medical students want to do research at an early stage of medical career in order to get exposure to research for the postgraduate training purposes. Despite of all these interesting facts, there are various hurdles that medical students are facing, such as poor guidance of mentors, hardship during data collection, lack of time for research purpose due to study related barriers, rejections from journal, high fee charges from the reputable journals etc. all these factors demotivate medical students to pursue research