Mahbobeh Khorsandi; Farzaneh Jahani; Katayon Vakilian; Hajar Sadeghi
Volume 22, Issue 5 , November and December 2015, , Pages 842-853
Abstract
Background and Objective: One of the main sources for research in Universities is dissertations. Performing research in different majors of medicine results in improvement and better implementing of student dissertation has a special place. Knowing the challenges of conducting GP dissertations and determining ...
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Background and Objective: One of the main sources for research in Universities is dissertations. Performing research in different majors of medicine results in improvement and better implementing of student dissertation has a special place. Knowing the challenges of conducting GP dissertations and determining the administrative process problems can be helpful to modify learning program and improve the quality of education. The purpose of this study is to determine challenges in performing GP dissertation. Materials and Methods: This qualitative study was done through content analysis method in 2012, and for data collection, semi-structured and deep interviews were used. Sampling was done in purposive method and continued until data saturation. For analyzing the data, conventional content analysis were used. Results: Twenty students of GP graduates participated in this study. The main categories extracted from data were educational, structural and human sources barriers which were supposed as the GP challenges, and the lack of education, educational strategy, official, economic and performing problems, supervising, lack of motivation and time deficit were considered as subcategories. Conclusion: The findings of this study showed that educational, structural and human resources barriers were the most important challenges in GP dissertation process. Regarding the importance of GP dissertations as a part of research in the country, effective strategies such as shortening the process of proposal approval, increasing financial support, performing workshops for methodology and scientific writing for the students and their advisors are suggested for decreasing the problems.