A modern picture of scientific publications in the life of medical students

It is no secret that writing a scientific research is a nonautomatic task that requires time and significant intellectual costs. Modern statistics can confirm that most students prefer an alternative to scientific activities– watching entertainment programs on TV, spending time on the Internet (social networks, video games) in their free time. In addition, students put off doing scientific research at a later date, not knowing or understanding their merits for their professional future. Moreover, they believe that this is the prerogative of teachers and scientists. Over the past half century, humanity has made a huge step in various fields of activity, but all thanks to scientific discoveries. And here the question arises: what future awaits us if we do not pay proper attention to our own development? Has science really ceased to be a value in the modern world? There is no doubt that the answer to this question is difficult. 

As world events demonstrate on a daily basis, we are all greatly influenced not only by the quality of the research on which important decisions are made, but also by how clearly and objectively its results are communicated to the people who make these decisions. We live in a world whose well-being is increasingly dependent on the knowledge of those engaged in research. [1] 

Furthermore, all students can be divided into two categories. A small part of them are engaged in research activities because they intend to link their future career with science, but, unfortunately, most of them prefer to engage in science only by the reason of they are approaching the defense of a thesis or the requirement of the department. 

In connection with the above situation at the moment, we conducted a study aimed at assessing and identifying the role of science among students of NJSC "Astana Medical University".

Based on the data obtained from the social survey, it was revealed that 62.9% of students studying in the 1st - 5th years of bachelor's degree, interns and residents read scientific articles extremely rarely, among which 30.4% noted that they read several times a year, 7.7% - several times a month. In addition, there are 7.7% of students who are not interested in reading scientific articles. 

Based on the survey, students often prefer to spend their leisure time with more social and entertaining activities, including 86.6%(271 people) of all respondents spend their free time on the Internet, about 40% read fiction and communicate with their peers, while television and media products (newspapers and magazines) were chosen by 14.1% and 26.4%, respectively. Among students of the medical university, articles of a clinical nature, but little-known databases are used by 1/5 of all respondents, and an equal number (16%) read well-known and littleare in demand, where they describe specific cases from medicine, because the most interesting topic in scientific journals was reasoning and review of clinical cases (41.9%). The top three topics of interest were new discoveries (28.4%) and experiments in the scientific field (21.4%). 3.2% preferred statistical data, and 5.1% said they did not read it. If the topics were listed above, then three-quarters of all respondents read articles in Russian, while 13.4% read in Kazakh and only 10.9% in English, which indirectly shows an insufficiently high level of English proficiency among students.

When analyzing the answers to the question: "Where do you read scientific publications?» it turned out that more than half of all respondents (176) mentioned well-known databases such as PubMed, TheLancet, Cochrane library.

Public-known magazines. 11.2% said that they do not read scientific articles. 

This survey showed an urgent problem of medical university students, because 43.5% do not know how to write an article if they want to. 30% have no desire to do scientific research at all, and only less than 15% have experience in writing articles. 

On the last question, the answer option was a text string for written reasoning. Respondents ' opinions converged and diverged at many points, and the most repeated responses were the low level of popularization of domestic scientific articles, investment in scientific research, accessibility, individuality and diversity of topics.

1. It was revealed that more than 90% of all respondents occasionally read, including scientific articles, and more than half of them are students, 54.3% several times a month. 

2. It was found that half of all respondents read the works of scientific research only for the need for study and less than half (44%) for personal interest. 

3. Analysis of survey respondents showed that 78.6% of all respondents prefer electronic resources articles, including famous and little-known database, because not all articles are available in printed form (33.2 per cent) and for readers it's easier, because it does not have to go anywhere (33.2 per cent). 

4. Slightly less than half of all students (43,5%) have no skills of writing scientific articles and 30% did not have desire, because the Domestic scientific articles have no relevance, at a low level of promotion and inaccessible that they are a trigger for demotivation. 

6. Factors of lack of relevance of reading are, lack of time due to employment in school/work or other, more interesting activities.