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Medical student attitudes toward video games and related new media technologies in medical education

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Education, June 2010
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Title
Medical student attitudes toward video games and related new media technologies in medical education
Published in
BMC Medical Education, June 2010
DOI 10.1186/1472-6920-10-50
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Authors

Frederick W Kron, Craig L Gjerde, Ananda Sen, Michael D Fetters

Abstract

Studies in K-12 and college students show that their learning preferences have been strongly shaped by new media technologies like video games, virtual reality environments, the Internet, and social networks. However, there is no known research on medical students' game experiences or attitudes towards new media technologies in medical education. This investigation seeks to elucidate medical student experiences and attitudes, to see whether they warrant the development of new media teaching methods in medicine.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 7 2%
Spain 5 1%
United States 4 <1%
South Africa 4 <1%
Colombia 2 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Bolivia, Plurinational State of 1 <1%
Kenya 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Other 7 2%
Unknown 393 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 61 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 59 14%
Student > Bachelor 47 11%
Researcher 41 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 29 7%
Other 111 26%
Unknown 79 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 107 25%
Social Sciences 61 14%
Computer Science 37 9%
Psychology 26 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 22 5%
Other 82 19%
Unknown 92 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 14 March 2022.
All research outputs
#6,211,130
of 23,339,727 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Education
#1,004
of 3,441 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#28,972
of 95,160 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Education
#3
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,339,727 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 73rd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,441 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 70% of its peers.
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