Needing to "Research Methodology" as a course or workshop at University of Medical Sciences?

"nDissertation is the last part of student's study carried out under supervision of academic staff. Graduate theses are important sources of academic research; its results should go to science and industry. Here regarding to experiences up to now, an idea is proposed to oblige teaching of "Research Methodology" as course for Pharmacy students. Although "Research Methodology" has been launched in some universities as a workshop but the problem is just a few energetic students attend in, whereas for all doctorate students training is not over before defence of a thesis; and, because of the short time of this workshop (2-3 days) its outcome is not enough efficient. "nAttempts have been made to evaluate all registered theses (n=474) in library of faculty of Pharmacy, Kerman University of Medical Sciences in 20 years considering to their quality and quantity. The results showed that no statistic was used in 85% of theses. The structure of theses was not harmonized and the weakest parts of theses were analysis, discussion/conclusion. The most frequency of Pharmacy theses were in Pharmaceutics field. One out of six theses have been published in scientific journals; therefore regarding to our results and even other studies on medial theses in Iran, it seems necessarily to teach students how communicate, think, research, analyze and write scientifically and effectively to present their dissertations or articles in a professional way which should be covered by "Research Methodology" course.