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EDUMECENTRO
versión On-line ISSN 2077-2874
Resumen
CASTRO-RODRIGUEZ, Yuri et al. Theses supported and published by health sciences students in Peru. EDUMECENTRO [online]. 2020, vol.12, n.1, pp.15-29. ISSN 2077-2874.
Background:
the university thesis culminates undergraduate and / or postgraduate studies, it´s unpublished and original, it consolidates academic training and allows obtaining a professional degree.
Objective:
to quantify the amount of university thesis published as a scientific article in health sciences: Human Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Veterinary Medicine and Psychology, of the National University of San Marcos; Lima Peru.
Methods:
a study was carried out with a quantitative, basic, observational, descriptive level and retrospective design approach that evaluated 1954 theses carried out by undergraduate students registered on the Cybertesis web portal, from 2010 to 2018. The variables were analyzed: productivity by faculty / professional school, time and place of publication, experience of the advisor and gender of the thesis students.
Results:
theses were published in scientific journals 134 (6.9%). The average time it took to publish a thesis in scientific article format was 1.72 ± 1.05 years. 124 (92.5%) published theses presented consultants who participated in scientific publications. In 133 articles (99.3%) the students were the main authors. 123 theses (91.8%) appeared in Peruvian scientific journals. 6.9% of theses supported were published in original article format; the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine was the one with the greatest scientific production.
Conclusions:
the study carried out allowed diagnosing the percentage of published theses with respect to the sustained ones, which provides a tool for its increase from studies where the causes that affect the found percentages are delimited.
Palabras clave : students, medical; academic dissertation; periodicals as topic; education, medical.