Vaishak Belle
Logic + probabilistic programming + causal laws
Royal Society open science
era evidencebased medicine systematic research help providing judicious precise healthcare individual patients based updated knowledge skills however many medical professionals feel competent confident enough conduct research one reasons could lack researchbased curriculum undergraduate courses national medical council also stressed need formal training research methodology healthcare professionals research methodology workshops help familiarize participants basic clinical translational research required impart optimum patient care objective study evaluate research methodology workshop conducted postgraduate students assessing participants knowledge feedback expected impact using kirkpatricks evaluation model quasiexperimental singlegroup study conducted among 132 firstyear postgraduate students four levels kirkpatricks model applied evaluation feedback forms scores pretest posttest quality research proposal drafted postgraduates thesis finally successful submission research proposal components used evaluate four levels outcome kirkpatricks model data collected compiled tabulated ms excel proportions calculated categorical variables mean standard deviation sd scores comparison means pre postworkshop scores made paired ttest value p 005 considered statistically significant statistical analysis done using ibm spss statistics version 200 software 132 participants 29 38 males 71 94 females mean sd pretest posttest scores 95 confidence interval 1055 2537 1243 2484 respectively difference found statistically significant paired sample ttest p 0001 participant feedback vital improving research methodology workshops workshop met overall requirements participants significant improvement knowledge participants workshop completion