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Perceptions of UK medical graduates’ preparedness for practice: A multi-centre qualitative study reflecting the importance of learning on the job

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Education, February 2013
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (69th percentile)

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Title
Perceptions of UK medical graduates’ preparedness for practice: A multi-centre qualitative study reflecting the importance of learning on the job
Published in
BMC Medical Education, February 2013
DOI 10.1186/1472-6920-13-34
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Authors

Jan C Illing, Gill M Morrow, Charlotte R Rothwell nee Kergon, Bryan C Burford, Beate K Baldauf, Carol L Davies, Ed B Peile, John A Spencer, Neil Johnson, Maggie Allen, Jill Morrison

Abstract

There is evidence that graduates of different medical schools vary in their preparedness for their first post. In 2003 Goldacre et al. reported that over 40% of UK medical graduates did not feel prepared and found large differences between graduates of different schools. A follow-up survey showed that levels of preparedness had increased yet there was still wide variation. This study aimed to examine whether medical graduates from three diverse UK medical schools were prepared for practice.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
Unknown 281 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 48 17%
Student > Bachelor 48 17%
Student > Postgraduate 36 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 7%
Lecturer 16 6%
Other 71 25%
Unknown 45 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 161 56%
Social Sciences 22 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 6 2%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 6 2%
Other 25 9%
Unknown 53 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 05 March 2013.
All research outputs
#4,986,576
of 24,576,899 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Education
#858
of 3,771 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#39,335
of 197,058 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Education
#14
of 42 outputs
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