Abstract

OLMOS-DE-AGUILERA AEDO, Romina; ALFARO-TOLOZA, Patricio; SANCHEZ-GONZALEZ, Juan Pablo  and  ABUDINEN ADAUY, Gabriel. Original articles published in biomedical journals from medical students congresses of Chile in 2009-2011. Rev Cient Cienc Méd [online]. 2013, vol.16, n.2, pp.18-21. ISSN 1817-7433.

Introduction: It is common for medical students to participate actively in student scientific conferences by presenting scientific papers, however, when analyzing such participation in biomedical journals is a figure much lower. It is these publications that are considered as real indicators of scientific productivity. Objective: To quantify the publication of papers presented at scientific congresses of Chile medical student in biomedical journals from 2009-2011. Material and Method: Retrospective bibliometric the best scientific papers presented at national scientific meetings of medical students ANACEM Chile 2009-2011 (n = 59). A search of these quantifying those that were published in biomedical journals, based on PubMed, SciELO and Google Scholar. The search was as title and authors' names in Spanish and English, analyzing the affiliation of the authors and the journal where they were published. Excel® 2010 was used for statistical work. Results: Of the 59 studies analyzed, 11 were published in the Journal ANACEM Chile. The affiliation of the authors accounted for universities: de Chile, de los Andes, Nacional Andrés Bello, de Concepción, de Antofagasta, de la Frontera, de Valparaiso and Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. Ten papers were for research papers and one case report. Discussion: There is a degree of participation in biomedical journals by medical students from Chile but this is done on a smaller proportion.A way to improve it should propose projects that encourage the publication of scientific articles from the undergraduate level.

Keywords : Congresses; Journal Article; Medical Students.

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