The growing cost of internships could add to inequality

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Title	The growing cost of internships could add to inequality
Published by	The Conversation
DOI	10.64628/aa.kygkn95ux
Authors	McDonald, Paula, Oliver, Damian, Grant-Smith, Deanna
Abstract	Internships can have direct and indirect costs that may exclude some who can't afford them.

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Geographical breakdown
Country	Count	As %
Australia	22	49%
United States	2	4%
France	1	2%
South Africa	1	2%
Unknown	19	42%

Demographic breakdown

Type
Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	36	80%
Scientists	8	18%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	1	2%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 38. 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 20 March 2018.

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