ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to gain an overall knowledge about institutional support for teaching staff's participation in educational research and reform. Specifically, it investigates the participants' opinions on the necessity and current situation of establishing a unit focused on medicine and health education research, the involvement of educational research projects, as well as staff's publication on teaching and learning. Five questions were asked regarding these aspects in the survey. Data are analyzed and findings are presented in this chapter, which are structured in four sections. Section 1 reports how participants scaled to what extent they agreed with the necessity of establishing a unit focused on medicine and health education research. Section 2 shows participants' answers to whether there was such a unit in their university, and whether they had been involved in any educational research projects. Section 3 reports the levels of research projects they were involved if they answered ‘Yes’ to the previous question. Section 4 reports the number of articles they
142published on medical teaching and learning research. Data analyses in this chapter not only include overall findings to the above addressed issues, but also take into consideration of the impact of gender, age, profession, job title, and the university's geographical locations respectively.
