20.500.12556/DiRROS-31573 Knowledge of and attitudes towards medical research ethics among frst year doctoral students in Slovenia at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana Background Research ethics and attitudes should be the main concern of those who are conducting and publishing research in medicine. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted using a questionnaire among frst year postgraduate doctoral students in Biomedicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana during the academic year 2022/2023. Results There were 54 out of 57 doctoral students included in the study, with a mean age (SD) of 29.7 (4.7) years, with predominantly female doctoral students, 66.7%. The number of correct answers out of 39 considered to illustrate students’ knowledge of medical research ethics was 31, meaning that they gave correct answers to 80% of all the questions. The mean number (SD) of correct answers was 18.9 (5.8), which signifcantly difered from 31 (p<0.001). The previous experience of the doctoral students in research was signifcantly correlated with their knowledge of medical research ethics, even when controlling for the age, gender and workplace of respondents. Conclusion This study clearly showed that insufcient knowledge and a poor level of attitudes exist about the main questions pertaining to medical research ethics. Overall knowledge is well below the expected positive answers. Further studies are needed to compare the knowledge of doctoral students with that of their tutors and what implications this might have for further teaching of research ethics. research ethics integrity doctoral students biomedicine Slovenia Faculty of Medicine University of Ljubljana etika v raziskovanju integriteta doktorski študenti biomedicina Slovenija Medicinska fakulteta Univerza v Ljubljani true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Neznano 2026-08-05 11:28:58 2026-08-05 11:28:58 2026-08-06 04:01:33 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2023 0 0 Nasl. z nasl. zaslona; Opis vira z dne 10. 11. 2023; str. 1-9 iss. [article no.] 828 Vol. 23 2023 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 61 1472-6920 10.1186/s12909-023-04809-w 171657219 RAZ_Grosek_Stefan_2023.pdf RAZ_Grosek_Stefan_2023.pdf 1 D0F77F374AE788434C28995FE6434A00 29db5ded65c0985fb1691509eecc3aad8aa378704c33d25ef6797241275027bf 379d0b21-90b0-11f1-af5a-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=48956 https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12909-023-04809-w 1 17d89446-90b0-11f1-af5a-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=48953 Univerzitetni klinični center Ljubljana 0 0 0