Investigating the evolution of undergraduate medical students’ perception and performance in relation to an innovative curriculum-based research module: A convergent mixed methods study launching the 8A-Model

• Farah Otaki,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Strategy and Institutional Excellence, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8944-4948

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• Deena AlHashmi,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation College of Medicine, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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• Amar Hassan Khamis,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hamdan Bin Mohammed College of Dental Medicine, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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• Aida Joseph Azar

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aida.azar@mbru.ac.ae

  Affiliation College of Medicine, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7659-8262

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