RESEARCH PROCESS IN THESIS WRITING IN MEDICINE Dentistry AND NURSING
Dr.T.V.Rao MD Every Student in Medical, Dental and Nursing Profession who wishes to do a Post Graduate studies has to be competent to do a research related to his chosen ideas to improve his career , and can be benefiting the society. Today it is very important to think of improving the skills with your day to practices, and will be helpful if you can incorporate in your dissertation The greater challenge continues to be limitation with exploring the matters in humans, as the first principle is do no harm to the chosen patient, where the ethical issues to be addressed before one can proceed to perform the research, formulate and present before the competent authority to get the enrolled degrees, Any research done without documentation will be void so the presenting the research process remain the essential element in work. The scientific research process is a multiple-step process where the steps are interlinked with the other steps in the process and your interaction with many in the workplace ,a great art to be perfected
Medical postgraduates cannot spare longer hours on research alone they have many clinical responsibilities , However the Preclinical and para clinical will have much time to go into depth of the matters, and certainly put greater dedication to complete the process, When starting your research you may or may not have a clear question but by starting with an idea and formulating this idea into a question you will be able to review the literature already written on this topic which will likely help you to refine and narrow your questions or give you ideas for new research questions you may not have thought about previously.

A typical research process comprises the following stages:

1 Selecting the research topic You are expected to state that you have selected the research topic due to professional , career and personal interests in the area and this statement must be true. always try looking for new ideas than copying the old matters ,
2 Formulating research aim, objectives and research questions or developing hypothesis It is critically important to get your research questions or hypotheses confirmed by your supervisor before moving forward with the work. And you have to greater steps of Statistical formulation scientific committee and Institutional ethical committee, Sometimes going through all evaluations difficult but don't worry , it will teach many things research is the really difficult part of our education
3 Conducting the literature review. It can be mentioned that the literature has proved to be the longest stage in the research process Read through articles published in the recent past not more than 5 years, old however older literature help more in basic sciences as basics to human life remain more static than the clinical topics which are moving than one imagines,
4 Selecting methods of data collection Here comes true role of your Guide and Professors and co guides , It is certainly the responsibility of the guides and students should present the data at frequent intervals and get the log book signed.
5 Collecting the primary data- Primary data collection needs to be preceded by a great level of preparation and you should start discussing the matters with you statistician who can judge whether you are going in the right direction are not
6 Data analysis Try to analyse after completing at least 50 % of the research process as you still have Time to correct and try going to scientific and statistical committee, and valuable time can be saved if the matters go wrong
7 Reaching conclusions -Completing the research-The first draft of your dissertation needs to be prepared at least one month before the submission deadline. This is because you will need to have sufficient amount of time to address feedback of your supervisor or guide and who finally takes the responsibility of approving your thesis
Research Philosophy You need to specify the research philosophy of your study. Your research philosophy can be pragmatism, positivism, realism or interpretivism
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Dr.T.V.Rao MD
Chairperson IEC Azeezia Medical Institutions Kollam Kerala