Fostering the physician-scientist workforce: a prospective cohort study to investigate the effect of undergraduate medical students' motivation for research on actual research involvement.

Belinda W C OmmeringFloris M van BlankensteinMarjo Wijnen-MeijerMerel van DiepenFriedo W Dekker

Published in: BMJ open (2019)

Our findings suggest that the type of motivation matters and IM influences research involvement. Therefore, IM could be targeted to stimulate research involvement and could be seen as the first step towards success in fostering the physician-scientist workforce.

Keyphrases

medical students
primary care
public health
emergency department
cancer therapy
medical education