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Table 1 Distribution of publications by characteristics of the theses.

From: Medical theses as part of the scientific training in basic medical and dental education: experiences from Finland

 

Publications

 

Characteristics of the theses

No publications

n (%)

Finnish

n (%)

English

n (%)

All

n (%)

Field

    

â–Ş Clinical medicine

104 (72.7)

6 (4.2)

33 (23.1)

143 (100)

â–Ş Biomedicine

4 (44.4)

0 (0)

5 (55.6)

9 (100)

â–Ş Diagnostics or pharmacology

23 (69.7)

0 (0)

10 (30.3)

33 (100)

â–Ş Public health science and general practice

20 (90.9)

1 (4.5)

1 (4.5)

22 (100)

â–Ş Dentistry

44 (89.8)

1 (2.0)

4 (8.2)

49 (100)

Type

    

â–Ş Quantitative

81 (68.1)

3 (2.5)

35 (29.4)

119 (100)

â–Ş Brief quantitative

53 (89.8)

2 (3.4)

4 (6.8)

59 (100)

â–Ş Literature review

29 (100)

0 (0)

0 (0)

29 (100)

â–Ş Other

32 (65.3)

3 (6.1)

14 (28.6)

49 (100)

Supervisor

    

â–Ş Professor

68 (68.7)

4 (4.0)

27 (27.3)

99 (100)

â–Ş Adjunct professor

46 (82.1)

1 (1.8)

9 (16.1)

56 (100)

â–Ş Other

67 (84.8)

2 (2.5)

10 (12.7)

79 (100)

â–Ş Unknown

14 (63.6)

1 (4.5)

7 (31.8)

22 (100)

Structure of scientific article

    

â–Ş No

47 (95.9)

2 (4.1)

0 (0)

49 (100)

â–Ş Yes

148 (76.7)

6 (3.1)

39 (20.2)

193 (100)

â–Ş Printed publication

0 (0)

0 (0)

14 (100)

14 (100)

Language

    

â–Ş Finnish or Swedish

169 (91.4)

8 (4.3)

8 (4.3)

185 (100)

â–Ş English

26 (36.6)

0 (0)

45 (63.4)

71 (100)

Technical quality

    

â–Ş Poor

49 (89.1)

3 (5.5)

3 (5.5)

55 (100)

â–Ş Good

103 (83.1)

3 (2.4)

18 (14.5)

124 (100)

â–Ş Excellent

43 (68.3)

2 (3.2)

18 (28.6)

63 (100)

â–Ş Printed publication

0 (0)

0 (0)

14 (100)

14 (100)

Total

195 (76.2)

8 (3.1)

53 (20.7)

256