Table 4.

Participants’ self-reported confidence in their skills and abilities in various aspects of research, grant writing and publishing.

Skills and abilities	Poor (%)		Fair (%)		Good (%)		Excellent (%)
	Before training	After training	Before training	After training	Before training	After training	Before training	After training
General skills and abilities in research	26	1	61	5	11	68	2	26
Research conception	32	0	47	0	19	47	2	53
Writing fundable research proposal	68	0	19	9	12	56	1	35
Undertake a research project independently	37	0	31	8	22	58	10	34
Writing publishable scientific manuscript	29	0	38	5	23	38	10	57