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Evaluation of student project material and its relevance for use as reference values
Author(s) -
Mohamed Abdelrahim Osman
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.20.5.a974-d
Subject(s) - relevance (law) , medical education , control (management) , quality (philosophy) , medical laboratory , thyroid hormones , work (physics) , reference values , medicine , psychology , mathematics education , computer science , engineering , pathology , political science , thyroid , mechanical engineering , law , philosophy , epistemology , artificial intelligence
Every year several student projects are produced for the purpose of degrees in Medicine and laboratory Sciences, both undergraduate and masters by course in the Sudanese universities. This work usually is funded by the students themselves and if any very little support is expected from other sources. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relevance of the data in these projects for use as reference material in the clinical laboratory. Five master projects and 4 undergraduate studies were evaluated. The results were read and compared with reference values in the textbooks or national reference material. Four of the master projects used small control samples (n ≤ 40)for their study of serum ferritin, iron, iron binding capacity, albumin, CRP, lipid profiles and thyroid hormones. One of the master projects used very ambiguous terms like low, normal or high and never provided any numbers. The three laboratory undergraduate students projects were poorly conducted and non of them used control material. The study concluded that well supervised and funded projects can be a good quality research. However, there are limitations for the students in our countries including funds, large student numbers allocated for each faculty and poor logistics. Well conducted research gives valuable information which can be used as reference material.