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Background: Proposal writing before starting research study is the key component of the any research project and quality of the research depends upon how the proposal was designed and planned. Objectives of this study was to determine thefrequency of most common errors in proposal writing by post graduate medical residents of College of physician and surgery of Pakistan (CPSP) at Peshawar. Methods: A cross sectional study was carried at Khyber College of Dentistry(KCD) Peshawar from August 2017 to May 2018.We conducted the reviewed of Form “S” of 43 proposals through convenience sampling. Each Form S consists of 34 questions. All the questionswere dichotomous which were presented in the form of frequency and percentages. Data wereanalysedby SPSS-22. Result: Out of 43 proposal, the result shows that 53.5% (n=23) of the candidates have notexplained the introduction in their own words while suitable statistical tests were not mentioned in more than half of the67.4%(n=29)proposal. References were not written in Vancouver style 51.2%(n=22) as well ashypothesis was not applicable in 62.8%(n=27) of the studies. However only 39.5% (n=60.5) of the trainees phrased the hypothesis properly.Conclusion:Majority of thecandidateswere unable to write the proposal according to the recommended guidelines. Application of the appropriate statistical measures was found as a challenge for the candidates. Similarly, objectives were not clearly defined in terms of SMART concep
Farhad Ali, , Ghulam Rasool, , Kifayat Ullah, Abdul Khaliq, Irfan Ullah, Sabreen Hassan, Zia Ul-Haq. (2019) COMMON ERRORS IN PROPOSAL WRITING: A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY AMONG POST GRADUATE MEDICAL TRAINEES AT PESHAWAR, JOURNAL OF AYUB MEDICAL COLLEGE ABBOTTABAD, Volume 31, Issue 4.
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