Are medical students able to perform multicenter studies?

Are medical students able to perform multicenter studies? This question goes far beyond what the scientific environment could imagine even a few years ago. Medical students, particularly in Latin America, have progressively incremented their research productivity[1],[2]. This is due to the strategies developed —such as the creation of medical students’ scientific societies— in response to the lack of a culture of research and publishing in the continent [3],[4]. As these improvements have been rising, new research challenging opportunities have emerged. Multicenter studies are an example. We would like to relate the experience of a project we ran in 85 universities of 17 Latin American countries in which the main local researchers were medical students, conforming then the Collaborative Working Group for the Research of Human Resources for Health (Red-LIRHUS) [5]. In order to do so, we will mention the main advantages and complications in carrying out a multicenter study with medical students as investigators.

Author(s): Pereyra Elías, Reneé; Montenegro Idrogo, Juan José; Mayta Tristán, Percy ( 0000-0002-0861-6606 ) 
Source: Medwave (Medwave)
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10757/579916