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| Title |
A survey of Sub-Saharan African medical schools
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Human Resources for Health, February 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1478-4491-10-4 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Candice Chen, Eric Buch, Travis Wassermann, Seble Frehywot, Fitzhugh Mullan, Francis Omaswa, S Ryan Greysen, Joseph C Kolars, Delanyo Dovlo, Diaa Eldin El Gali Abu Bakr, Abraham Haileamlak, Abdel Karim Koumare, Emiola Oluwabunmi Olapade-Olaopa |
| Abstract |
Sub-Saharan Africa suffers a disproportionate share of the world's burden of disease while having some of the world's greatest health care workforce shortages. Doctors are an important component of any high functioning health care system. However, efforts to strengthen the doctor workforce in the region have been limited by a small number of medical schools with limited enrolments, international migration of graduates, poor geographic distribution of doctors, and insufficient data on medical schools. The goal of the Sub-Saharan African Medical Schools Study (SAMSS) is to increase the level of understanding and expand the baseline data on medical schools in the region. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 35 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 23% |
| Nigeria | 2 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 6% |
| Australia | 2 | 6% |
| Canada | 2 | 6% |
| Belgium | 2 | 6% |
| Uganda | 1 | 3% |
| South Africa | 1 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 7 | 20% |
| Unknown | 7 | 20% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 27 | 77% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 11% |
| Scientists | 3 | 9% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 169 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 2 | 1% |
| United States | 2 | 1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Austria | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 160 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 27 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 25 | 15% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 16 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 16 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 8% |
| Other | 46 | 27% |
| Unknown | 25 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 65 | 38% |
| Social Sciences | 22 | 13% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 11 | 7% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 9 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 4% |
| Other | 21 | 12% |
| Unknown | 35 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 31. 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 04 September 2012.
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#6,496
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