A popular quote from Ernest Boyer is “Poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. Poor teacher hurts 130.” But then, somebody added “Poor Surgeon hurts one person, Poor Teacher hurts 130 but Poor Researcher Hurts Millions”.
Last year I attended a seminar on “Research opportunities in medical college and role of medical faculties as researcher” at PDU Medical College Rajkot1 and the seminar forced me to ponder on creating an enabling environment in medical colleges in developing research evidences for national health policy for various disease control, achieving MGD (millennium Development Goal), new drug development, poor drug withdrawal from market, disease registry, evaluation and monitoring of various national health programme and many more. SWOT analysis of Scope of Research in Medical Colleges: The primary focus should be on SWOT analysis of current status of research in medical…
