Students in medical and health-related fields as well as seasoned medical practitioners need to understand the issues related to the process of planning a scientific study, conducting the study, analysing data and reporting the findings. Recognizing this need, the Iranian medical education system (IMES) started to design and implement a series of workshops in research methodology and statistical data analysis during the past decade. The IMES includes more than 40 universities of medical sciences (UMS). Faculty members and students of the UMS participated in the aforementioned workshops. The workshops provided an opportunity for the participants to get hands-on experiences in the process of scientific research. Based on the above, in the first part of this paper the structure of the workshops, their content and instructional methods are described. Results from a survey to find out the effectiveness of one of the workshop are presented.
The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education