Results for my mentorship of my colleagues for the graduation projects.

Background

In this final year of medical school, we had a graduation project to finish within a deadline. this project was a cross-sectional study. I volunteered to help my colleagues to understand the fundamentals of scientific research, focusing on the cross-sectional study. I also helped them throughout the project to reach the final stage of writing an abstract on the topic, provided with all the analysis tables and graphs. I aimed in my videos to give them a background on scientific research and make them know how important this field is and it is not limited to the graduation project only, and also, to correct their misconceptions about clinical research. After discussing the project, I made a survey for them to test how they benefited from these videos.

Findings

From a total of 339 medical students divided into 19 groups, 11 groups for males and 8 for females, only 41 participants have filled out the survey 12 (29.3%) were males and 29 (70.7%) were females. Of the 40 participants, 22% have watched all videos, 75.6% watched one or more videos but not all of them, and only one response (2.4%) has not watched any of the videos.

Of the 40 students who watched at least one video, 67.5% had Great benefits and 32.5% had moderate benefits from the videos, as shown in Figure 1.

All of them had a better understanding of scientific research and 97.4% were more passionate about learning more about scientific research as shown in Figures 2 and 3 respectively.