title: Are medical students inclined to do research?".
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Medical research at undergraduate level has been given poor importance in developing countries including India. Less incentives, poor resources, lack of benefits has all been the reason for curbing the research interests of the students.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This research was done to understand if medical students perceived research to be important at an undergraduate level, to understand the reasons for doing research and the benefits obtained from research.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cross sectional study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Questionnaires were distributed to medical students studying in second, third, fourth and fifth years in the MBBS course at an undergraduate medical conference and a medical college. Questions were so designed to verify student's ideas on research, their research involvement and their reasons for conducting research. The answers were tabulated, data analyzed and statistics were made based on their answers.
  
  
  METHODS
  Frequency and percentage.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Out of the given sample, it was seen that though only 20.9% of the students had credited publications, 81.7% of the students admitted to research being essential to understanding and changing their perception of medicine. Only 38.3% of the sample found research to be cumbersome. 24.3% of the students were involved in research purely for the purpose of acquiring knowledge, 18.3% were pursuing interest in the field and a meager 1.7% were doing research to improve their curriculum vitae. Conclusion : These results are in conformance with other studies from elsewhere that shows decreased Indian medical student's engagement in researches, compared to those from developed countries, but on par with those from the developing countries.
authors.affiliation: Intern MBBS Student, Father Muller Medical College , Karnataka, India .
authors.forename: Rosmy
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jimmy
authors.affiliation: Intern MBBS Student, Father Muller Medical College , Karnataka, India .
authors.forename: Princy Louis
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Palatty
authors.affiliation: First year MBBS Student, Father Muller Medical College , Karnataka, India .
authors.forename: Prajna
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: D'Silva
authors.affiliation: First year MBBS Student, Father Muller Medical College , Karnataka, India .
authors.forename: Manjunath Srinath
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Baliga
authors.affiliation: First year MBBS Student, Father Muller Medical College , Karnataka, India .
authors.forename: Abhimanyu
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Singh
keywords: Curriculum Vitae; Feasibility of research; Institutional help; Medical research; Medical students