Timothy K Behrens, Randa Osman, Paige Whitney, Dick Carpenter, Elizabeth Tucker, Julaine Field, Cheryl Kelly
A Profile of Active Transportation in Colorado Public Schools, 2014-2015
Journal of community health
qualitatively analyse barriers pursuing undergraduate research propose solutions problems identified qualitative study conducted may october 2021 approval institutional ethics review board dow university health sciences karachi comprised undergraduate students either gender various public private medical universities across pakistan level research experience good communication skills data triangulation employed collect qualitative data openended survey facetoface interviews focus group discussions using information one method inform rest linked trajectories established allowed validation information level data coded manually two researchers independently data subjected inductive thematic analysis 33 subjects 17515 males 17515 private medical colleges 18545 karachi 11333 final year medical school overall 13394 students completed openended survey 6182 completed facetoface interviews 14424 participated focus group discussions thematic analysis showed students interested research improve career prospects passionate students satisfied quality research conducted country dearth motivated faculty unavailability wellmaintained digitalised data registries ineffective research methodology teaching lack access medical journals research software major barriers undergraduate research time constraint projecting problem challenged students frequent research workshops conferences strong networking reorienting curriculum provide early exposure research studentled initiatives suggested improve undergraduate research pakistan students lack initiative coupled administrative facultyrelated issues pose serious threat future evidencebased medicine proposed solutions offer ray hope future undergraduate research pakistan