To determine factors affecting successful research and publication among medical students, a cross-sectional survey study was carried out at four Thai medical schools during 2018–2022. Medical students who had previously performed research under research advisors’ supervision and their research advisors were included. There were 120 participants, 78 medical students and 42 research advisors. The most common problems reported by the students were student’s lack of knowledge of research design (78%) and research topic (53%), while the most common problems reported by the advisors were student’s lack of knowledge of research topic (55%) and how to prepare documents for ethics committee approval (48%). The promoting factors for research success commonly reported by the students and advisors were “an advisor helps with protocol writing and reviewing the manuscript”, “research teaching in the curriculum”, “provision of an example of a written ethics committee protocol”, and “arranging a special session so that advisors can talk to students about their research of interest”. Among the 78 participating students, 20 (26%) had successfully published their research in journals. These 20 students were more likely than those without publications to be from an institute that had a special research project or conference for medical students (20% vs. 0%,) and to suggest that teaching protocol writing helped in promoting research success (70% vs. 43%). These findings suggest that teaching research, a special research project or conference for medical students, and faculty development of research advising could potentially increase the success rate of students’ research publications.

为了确定影响医学生成功研究和发表的因素，2018 年至 2022 年期间在四所泰国医学院进行了一项横断面调查研究。之前在研究顾问的监督下进行过研究的医学生及其研究顾问也被包括在内。共有 120 名参与者，其中 78 名医学生和 42 名研究顾问。学生最常见的问题是学生缺乏研究设计（78%）和研究课题（53%）的知识，而导师最常见的问题是学生缺乏研究课题（55%）和研究课题的知识。如何准备伦理委员会批准的文件（48%）。学生和顾问普遍报告的研究成功的促进因素是“顾问帮助撰写方案和审查手稿”、“课程中的研究教学”、“提供书面伦理委员会方案的示例”和“安排一次特别会议，以便顾问可以与学生讨论他们感兴趣的研究”。在 78 名参与的学生中，20 名（26%）已成功在期刊上发表了他们的研究成果。这 20 名学生比那些没有发表过论文的学生更有可能来自为医学生举办特殊研究项目或会议的机构（20% 与 0%），并认为教学方案写作有助于促进研究成功（70%） vs. 43%）。这些发现表明，教学研究、针对医学生的特殊研究项目或会议以及教师的研究咨询发展可能会提高学生研究出版物的成功率。