Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing (Apr 2022)

Status of Research and Development Within Dental Institutes of Pakistan

  • Hina Zafar Raja FCPS, MSc (UK), ICMT,
  • Muhammad Nasir Saleem FCPS, MSc, ICMT,
  • Ayesha Noor BDS, BSc, FCPS,
  • Ayesha Usmani M Phil Statistics,
  • Junaid S. Khan FCPS, FRCS, PGDip Med Edu, MEdELM, PhD Med Edu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/00469580221100147
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 59

Abstract

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Health sector institutes of Pakistan can play a pivotal part in improving the status of health sciences. This can be achieved by facilitating research and innovation facilities. It is a need of the day to emphasize academicians and institutional administrations to take keen interest in this regard. Knowledge of the present research and development conditions within higher education institutions may help in policy development and fund allocations at the required levels. Therefore, the objective of this study is to evaluate the status of research and development within dental Institutes of Pakistan. A 30 itemed questionnaire was e mailed/posted to all institutional heads of all registered and recognized dental institutes of Pakistan. Response rate was 62% showing lack of administrational interest. Insufficient infrastructure, inadequate research planning, execution and intellectual property management was recorded. It can be concluded that higher education dental institutions of Pakistan are in need of deeper administrational and educational input to gear up the progress of health sector in this direction.