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Medical School Attrition-Beyond the Statistics A Ten Year Retrospective Study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Education, January 2013
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#44 of 3,854)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

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Title
Medical School Attrition-Beyond the Statistics A Ten Year Retrospective Study
Published in
BMC Medical Education, January 2013
DOI 10.1186/1472-6920-13-13
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Authors

Bridget M Maher, Helen Hynes, Catherine Sweeney, Ali S Khashan, Margaret O’Rourke, Kieran Doran, Anne Harris, Siun O’ Flynn

Abstract

Medical school attrition is important--securing a place in medical school is difficult and a high attrition rate can affect the academic reputation of a medical school and staff morale. More important, however, are the personal consequences of dropout for the student. The aims of our study were to examine factors associated with attrition over a ten-year period (2001-2011) and to study the personal effects of dropout on individual students.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Unknown 197 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 20 10%
Student > Bachelor 20 10%
Researcher 18 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 7%
Professor 14 7%
Other 63 32%
Unknown 50 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 74 37%
Social Sciences 19 10%
Psychology 15 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 3%
Other 19 10%
Unknown 59 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 56. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 December 2022.
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#734,215
of 24,932,434 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Education
#44
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#5,890
of 294,405 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Education
#1
of 38 outputs
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