Table 2.

Knowledge of the definition and scope of research

Knowledge item	Frequency (%)
Medical research is best conducted in hospital settings	164 (74.2)
Medical research is mostly about experiments to develop new drugs	150 (67.9)
Research is about distributing questionnaires in the community	122 (55.2)
Research is the way academic staff use medical students as “free labor”	119 (53.8)
“Google scholar” is more reliable than “Google” when seeking out journals	95 (43.0)
Research involves documentation of new discoveries in medicine	30 (13.6)
You need to seek ethical approval before commencement of a research	21 (9.5)