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Objectives: Curricula of the first three (preclinical) years of the Turkish medical faculty are assessed to determine the ratio of instructional hours related to research. Material and methods: In this descriptive study, we have accessed websites of 50 Turkish medical faculties between February 1st and April 15th 2006. Medical faculties that did not have curriculum information on their websites were contacted through mail. The final number of participants in our study was 36. Results: The number of total instruction hours for the first three years, ranged between 2151 and 3568. Percentage of research related content ranged between 1.83% and 12.37%. We found that research related curricula mostly consisted of subjects such as "computer", "biostatistics", "epidemiology". Fewer faculties' curricula contained "library usage and documentation", "medical informatics", "evidence based medicine" and "special study modules". The percentage of instruction hours on epidemiology and/or research ranged between 4- 57%. We found that only 3 medical faculties had more than 20% of the total instructional time allocated for courses that are expected to help students gain competence in research methodology. Fourteen of the faculties did not have any epidemiology courses during preclinical years. Conclusions: Medical faculty curricula should be assessed and evaluated, parallel to the change in programs, in terms of helping students gain the necessary knowledge and skills in scientific method and attitude.

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