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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
The College of Medicine in the Republic of Malawi: towards sustainable staff development
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Human Resources for Health, April 2007
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| DOI | 10.1186/1478-4491-5-10 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Ed E Zijlstra, Robert L Broadhead |
| Abstract |
Malawi has a critical human resources problem particularly in the health sector. There is a severe shortage of doctors; there are only few medical specialists. The College of Medicine (COM) is the only medical school and was founded in 1991. For senior staff it heavily depends on expatriates. In 2004 the COM started its own postgraduate training programme (Master of Medicine) in the clinical specialties. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 38 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 2 | 5% |
| United States | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 35 | 92% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 7 | 18% |
| Researcher | 5 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 11% |
| Lecturer | 3 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 8% |
| Other | 8 | 21% |
| Unknown | 8 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 12 | 32% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 7 | 18% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 8% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 8% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 8% |
| Other | 2 | 5% |
| Unknown | 8 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. 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 26 March 2018.
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#2,655,359
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Outputs from Human Resources for Health
#310
of 1,261 outputs
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#6,468
of 88,772 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Human Resources for Health
#2
of 5 outputs
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