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| Title |
How to do a postgraduate research project and write a minor thesis
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Archives of Disease in Childhood, May 2018
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| DOI | 10.1136/archdischild-2018-315340 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Trevor Duke |
| Abstract |
Many universities and colleges in low-income and middle-income countries require a masters dissertation or thesis for as part of postgraduate training, and some colleges offer a 1-year to 2-year diploma of child health as a clinical qualification to enable skills in child health for generalists, or as part of the early phase of paediatric training. This paper describes the stages of doing a research project for such a masters or diploma, and describes in detail how to write a minor thesis. The paper is designed to provide a practical approach for junior researchers, and their supervisors. Colleges differ in their formal requirements of a minor thesis (word count, line spacing, referencing style), but this paper outlines the principles and practical issues rarely covered elsewhere. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 29 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 3 | 10% |
| Australia | 3 | 10% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 3% |
| India | 1 | 3% |
| United States | 1 | 3% |
| Germany | 1 | 3% |
| Sweden | 1 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |
| Kenya | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 15 | 52% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 16 | 55% |
| Scientists | 9 | 31% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 14% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 80 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 80 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 11 | 14% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 8 | 10% |
| Researcher | 7 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 9% |
| Other | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 13 | 16% |
| Unknown | 29 | 36% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 23 | 29% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 10 | 13% |
| Engineering | 3 | 4% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 4% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 11 | 14% |
| Unknown | 28 | 35% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. 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 22 September 2022.
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#15
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