Table 2.

Residents’ self-assessment of research related tasks before and after completing the RRP, as well as the difference in their assessment

Variables	Pre Mean ± SD	Post Mean ± SD	Diff (Post-Pre) Mean ± SD	P-value
Total score 1-Literature Review	66.4 ± 19.5	80.5 ± 15.5	14.1 ± 12.6	< 0.0001
Literature review	65.4 ± 21.5	78.4 ± 17.6	13.3 ± 16.1	< 0.0001
Using PubMed	65.1 ± 20.8	80.0 ± 16.9	14.9 ± 14.8	< 0.0001
Reading articles	70.4 ± 19.9	83.3 ± 15.7	12.9 ± 14.5	< 0.0001
Summarizing articles	65.4 ± 23.2	80.2 ± 17.7	14.7 ± 16.9	< 0.0001
Total score 2-Writing the Proposal	48.0 ± 20.5	71.1 ± 15.8	23.1 ± 17.7	< 0.0001
Defining research objectives	57.8 ± 23.8	76.8 ± 17.1	19.0 ± 18.6	< 0.0001
Constructing questionnaire	49.5 ± 22.9	69.3 ± 17.9	19.8 ± 18.6	< 0.0001
Writing proposal	45.7 ± 24.9	72.2 ± 17.4	26.5 ± 22.0	< 0.0001
Applying to IRB	68.5 ± 21.0	52.6 ± 21.9	29.3 ± 22.0	< 0.0001
Total score 3-Data management and analyses	52.6 ± 21.9	72.8 ± 16.1	20.2 ± 17.7	< 0.0001
Data collection	59.4 ± 26.3	79.4 ± 17.9	20.0 ± 20.0	< 0.0001
Data entry	54.9 ± 27.1	77.7 ± 18.3	22.7 ± 23.2	< 0.0001
Data analyses	45.4 ± 23.5	66.3 ± 20.6	21.0 ± 21.1	< 0.0001
Data summarization	52.3 ± 24.5	71.7 ± 18.6	19.4 ± 21.6	< 0.0001
Tables graphs	52.1 ± 23.4	72.1 ± 17.8	20.0 ± 20.6	< 0.0001
Total score 4-Writing	52.8 ± 21.9	72.2 ± 17.7	19.4 ± 17.1	< 0.0001
Writing introduction	57.4 ± 25.2	77.0 ± 17.2	19.6 ± 20.2	< 0.0001
Writing methods	52.6 ± 25.1	74.4 ± 18.7	21.8 ± 19.9	< 0.0001
Writing results	53.4 ± 24.1	74.4 ± 18.2	21.0 ± 19.2	< 0.0001
Writing discussion	53.3 ± 23.5	71.5 ± 18.2	18.2 ± 17.9	< 0.0001
References	57.4 ± 26.3	76.2 ± 18.6	18.8 ± 21.4	< 0.0001
Submission publication	39.4 ± 24.1	59.8 ± 25.6	20.4 ± 23.3	< 0.0001
Study presentation	60.4 ± 25.6	78.8 ± 18.6	18.4 ± 21.8	< 0.0001
Total score	54.5 ± 19.5	73.8 ± 15.0	19.3 ± 14.1	< 0.0001

IRB Institutional Review Board, SD standard deviation; RRP Residency Research Program