Are conducting scientific research and writing articles essential in the training of health professionals?

Abstract

Among the obstacles to making participation in research a mandatory curricular component, there is obviously the difficulty of funding. The lack of prioritization of investments to adapt the infrastructure of laboratories and guarantee the presence in the teaching staff of experienced researchers with dedicated and paid time for the scientific initiation activity is in fact an obstacle. This fact makes the sensu spread that research should be restricted to graduate studies; which should be the training sequence of the student willing to enter the world of research. This thought removes the true role of postgraduate studies as a stage of intellectual improvement.