Medical students’ attitudes and believes on the roles of probability and statistics in doing scientific research, a case study in Vietnam

The importance of scientific research has become more evident everyday among the factors that directly related to the better performance of the emerging countries in 21st centuries. For health care and medicine, scientific research has played a significant role in the development of any organizations in general and the professional development of any practitioners in particular. For these reasons, the authors of this article aims to study medical students’ attitudes, believes on the roles of probability and statistics in scientific research in the curriculum issued by Thai Nguyen University of Medicine and Pharmacy (TUMP), Vietnam. The survey was carried out with support of virtual technology with 220 students who were successfully graduated and experienced with the probability and statistics subject at TUMP. Research methodology includes literature review of current curriculum, training materials and reports on the learning and teaching of probability and statistics subject at TUMP, online questionnaires implementation, in-deep interviews and various observations of educational activities and environment at Thai Nguyen University of Medicine and Pharmacy