Please share different methods employed by academicians globally to make the students have a keen interest towards research at incipient years of their study at a dental school / medical school.
Thanks in advance
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There are multiple steps required for student's recognize importance of research at an early stage of their studies.
a) Encourage students to read latest published research papers and journals.
b) Give students assignments based on research and analysis
c) Assign them research problems
d) Encourage them to write research papers
During lectures and experiment references (work done by scientists with names and institutes) shall be included and emphasise.
Another possibility is show them pratical examples that have arisen from research projects.
Thank you dear nuno for the response, what exactly do you mean by pratical example, could u elaborate a little?
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Dear Sudeep,
I can tell you my personnel experience. I disregarded natural sciences since the first years of school because the teaching was based only on theory with no practical examples. This discouraged me and push me to the management and economics area.
In Europe my opinion seems to be consensual, that is why European Union has a call dedicated to projects that may seduce people to pursue scientific careers: https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h2020-swafs-2016-17.html#c,topics=callIdentifier/t/H2020-SwafS-2016-17/1/1/1/default-group&callStatus/t/Forthcoming/1/1/0/default-group&callStatus/t/Open/1/1/0/default-group&callStatus/t/Closed/1/1/0/default-group&+identifier/desc
Dear Nuno, now I do get what you are saying, thank you for the advice, I do advice and make my students take up small research topics in groups. But I am not able to spark an interest in them to pursue more. It's sad because the education system and support runs on different terms and they get no supports or funds like in international universities. But I will keep trying and hope one day the system changes and that time my students be ready to push the limits.
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They should value having interested educators like yourself. It´s a detail that makes the difference in teaching.
Good luck.
Experts please share different methods employed by academicians globally to make the students have a keen interest towards research at incipient years of their study at a dental school / medical school at undergraduate level training.
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