Study Design and Questionnaire construction
A cross-sectional anonymous survey was carried out among medical students, residents and attending physicians from two medical faculties in France (Faculty of Medicine of Nancy, University of Lorraine; Faculty of Medicine of Poitiers, University of Poitiers). The instrument “Nancy-Poitiers Translational Research Study” was developed in the Faculty of Medicine of Nancy after an extensive literature review. Content validity of the questionnaire was endorsed by two experts in medical curriculum development (JPF, MB). The final version of the questionnaire encompassed three domains. The first domain provided information on the characteristics of respondents, the academic level and orientation (13 items). The second domain concerned motivation for scientific training (4 items), research fellowships already accomplished by the respondents (4 items), possible constraints (9 items), knowledge on research structures within the home University of each respondent (3 items) and the scientific output of the respondent (3 items). The third domain of the questionnaire was focused on understanding of the concept of translational research (8 items) (Supplemental Digital Content: Questionnaire). The questionnaire was created as an online survey using the Google Docs platform (https://doc- s.google.com/) and took approximately 10 minutes to complete. All responses were kept confidential. The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University Hospital of Nancy and registered at French National Commission …show more content…
The questionnaire was distributed through the university e-mail to medical students, residents and attending physicians. A second mailing was conducted in June 2015 using the same
A cross-sectional anonymous survey was carried out among medical students, residents and attending physicians from two medical faculties in France (Faculty of Medicine of Nancy, University of Lorraine; Faculty of Medicine of Poitiers, University of Poitiers). The instrument “Nancy-Poitiers Translational Research Study” was developed in the Faculty of Medicine of Nancy after an extensive literature review. Content validity of the questionnaire was endorsed by two experts in medical curriculum development (JPF, MB). The final version of the questionnaire encompassed three domains. The first domain provided information on the characteristics of respondents, the academic level and orientation (13 items). The second domain concerned motivation for scientific training (4 items), research fellowships already accomplished by the respondents (4 items), possible constraints (9 items), knowledge on research structures within the home University of each respondent (3 items) and the scientific output of the respondent (3 items). The third domain of the questionnaire was focused on understanding of the concept of translational research (8 items) (Supplemental Digital Content: Questionnaire). The questionnaire was created as an online survey using the Google Docs platform (https://doc- s.google.com/) and took approximately 10 minutes to complete. All responses were kept confidential. The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University Hospital of Nancy and registered at French National Commission …show more content…
The questionnaire was distributed through the university e-mail to medical students, residents and attending physicians. A second mailing was conducted in June 2015 using the same