INTRODUCTION
Health research training has been recognized as an important component of medical education because the rapid expansion and progress in biomedical research is expected to transform medical care.1 Studies have shown that research experience during medical school is strongly associated with postgraduate research initiatives2,3 and future career achievements in academia.4 The development of research capacity is imperative at the individual and institutional levels to attain a sustainable improvement in health research.5 Various strategies are being employed for this purpose, which include mandatory and elective research assignments, trainee sections in indexed journals, organization of trainee scientific conferences, reviewing of medical curriculum to integrate capacity building for research and holding of workshops on different aspects of conducting biomedical research.6
With research playing a vital role in improving clinical practice, it is important that medical trainees to include both undergraduate and postgraduate students understand the role of research and what it takes in submitting articles for publication.
Concerns about research wrongdoing in biomedical research are growing in developing countries, where research ethics training and research regulatory systems are just emerging.