RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY

EVALUATION AMONG FACULTY MEMBERS AT DOW UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES KARACHI

Abstract

Research training at higher education level for clinical and teaching staff is
important and there are methods to introduce research culture in employees at clinical and
teaching departmental level. Objectives: To recognize and quantify the research productivity
status of teaching and clinical faculty of (DUHS) Dow University of Health Sciences Karachi
before and after its establishment in 2003. Design: Non experimental cross sectional study.
Period: 1st October 2012 to 1st February 2013. Setting: Medical college Karachi. Subjects and
method: Students of third semester were applied to sort out the ten years record from 1998 to
2008 of all researches conducted by faculty of Dow University of Health Sciences, published in
international and national journals by using different online search engines. Research Output
was measured in terms of the increase in the number of publications and quality of publications
before and after the launch of Dow University. Data was entered in Microsoft office excel version
2007 and analyzed it in statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 17; Pearson chisquare
was applied to test the statistical significance at 95% confidence interval. Results: Data
of total 594 researches was found out between the years1998 to 2008, 175(29.5%) researches
were published before the foundation of Dow university of Health sciences Karachi (2003)
while 419(70.5) researches were produced after 173(45.6%) research papers were published in
indexed journals before, “whereas” 206(54.4%) were published in indexed journal after 2003.
Original research articles were 152 (31%) before 2003, which rose to 339 (69%). Publications of
article types such as case reports, case series, and short communication, editorials and review
articles also increased to 80 from 23 after establishment of Dow University. Conclusions: From
a total of 594 faculty researches o published in indexed and non indexed journals between
the years 1998 and 2008; there was a significant increase in production after establishment of
Dow university of Health Sciences Hence it is confidently reported that due to establishment
of research committees after the founding, there is a promotion and facilitation of research
activities among faculty members.