title: [Publications of medical thesis defended in Lille school of medicine].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this study was to determine the future, in terms of scientific publication, of medical thesis (MT) defended in the Medical School of Lille 2 University (MSL2U) between January 1st, 2001 and December 31st, 2007.
  
  
  METHODS
  The collection of MT published as a corresponding scientific article was realized from PubMed(®). For every corresponding article, we determined the journal Impact Factor (IF), the language of publication and the rank of the student and his MT director in the author list. Analyses were also realized according to the group of speciality of the TM.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In all, 11.3% of the 2150 MT defended in the MSL2U were followed up by a scientific publication. The average IF was 2.32 with a median at 1.75 and extreme values from 0 to 14.78. Seventy percent of the articles were published in English. The rank of the student was placed before his MT director (2.06 vs. 3.15). The MT defended by students in the field of medical specialities presented the highest rate of publication (25.1%). The general medicine was the second speciality the most productive in term of number of published articles (n=49) after medical specialities (n=103).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The MT director and the PhD students must be more motivated to publish their results. The value of 11.3% could be considered as weak but, because of a huge lack of references, it is impossible to compare our results to those of other French medical schools. It remains important to reform the objectives and the modalities of the writing of a MT: should we not have to turn to thesis called "on article"?
authors.affiliation: PRES Nord de France, université de Lille 2, faculté de médecine Henri-Warembourg, option initiation à la rédaction d'article, Lille cedex, France.
authors.forename: Ilies
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Benotmane
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Glatz
authors.forename: Solenn
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bihan
authors.forename: Fanny
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Legrand
authors.forename: Didier
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gosset
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Boulanger
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004522:Educational Status; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D055811:Journal Impact Factor; D007802:Language; D008511:Medicine / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D039781:PubMed / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011642:Publications / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011643:Publishing; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014956:Writing