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A Primer for Medical, Dental, and Nursing Courses / Piyush Gupta, Dheeraj Shah

First Edition : 2014

Second Edition : 2021

I am delighted to learn that you are going ahead with the second edition of your highly in demand, an absolute must for all budding postgraduates and even their teachers and guides, the very apt book on “How to Write Thesis.” You have done a commendable job and this new edition with additional inputs will be liked even more by all postgraduate students and teachers in various Medical, Paramedical, Nursing, Biomedical, Biotechnical, and Pharmaceutical Institutions involved in conduct of research. In today's world of competence and competition, good research is a core issue.

Conducting Medical Research is essential for the understanding of the problems that affect individuals, communities, or health systems. It allows for a systemic and scientific assessment of the problem and provides knowledge that allows for instituting a change in the practice of clinical medicine.

While the first edition of this book was inspired by a series of workshops on thesis writing organized for postgraduate students by our team, in this thoroughly revised second edition, we have attempted to accommodate the additional perceived needs and demands of students participating in workshops conducted by us since the publication of first edition. To achieve this, we provided a set of objectives and the desired content and flow to the author of each chapter, simultaneously providing them liberty to incorporate new ideas and examples. This process mandated inclusion of illustrious authors who are the best in the fields of medical education and research in the country. Though this revised edition essentially maintains the sequence of chapters as per the events in engaging with a thesis, each chapter is thoroughly revised with inclusion of plenty of examples from various medical and nonmedical subjects for easy understanding. We have included two new chapters—“Converting Thesis into a Scientific Paper” and “Manuscript-based Thesis: A New Paradigm”—in order to further stimulate the readers to culminate this process of thesis writing in form of a scientific paper in a reputed journal. We have tried to keep the language simple and conversational so as to achieve a better connect with the readers. An updated list of references for further reading is provided for readers to explore more details of the processes of research and thesis writing. A pleasing two-color format and inclusion of Key Messages and Concluding Paragraph with every chapter will result in better visual appeal and understanding. We hope that this book will continue to serve not only the needs of novice researchers such as undergraduate/postgraduate medical/nursing students and PhD students, but also of their supervisors and young research scientists who have to consolidate their research knowledge and skills for further dissemination and implementation.

This book has evolved from a series of workshops organized for postgraduate students by the Medical Education Unit of the University College of Medical Sciences. The objective of the workshops was to introduce them to the basics of biomedical research as a prelude to writing a protocol for a thesis, and subsequently, to writing the thesis itself. As the number of postgraduate admissions increased exponentially in 2009, the three-day “thesis writing workshop” was split into two one-and-a-half day workshops; the first a protocol writing workshop at the beginning of first year of residency, and the second a thesis writing workshop, some three months prior to thesis submission.