Policy analysis reveals drawbacks of rushed dissertation selection in postgraduate medical residents, highlighting the need for a three-month reflection window.
In the current directive of the National Medical Commission, postgraduate (PG) residents are required to list their dissertation topics within a very short period after enrollment. Such activity to pre-establish shortlisted topics before subjecting them to any training in research methodology results in designed studies that are not executed well, and students are not interested. In this study, the author suggests that a 3-month reflection window is necessary to place the interest of the students in line with scientific research.
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