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Medical students’ experience of personal loss: incidence and implications

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Education, March 2013
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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Title
Medical students’ experience of personal loss: incidence and implications
Published in
BMC Medical Education, March 2013
DOI 10.1186/1472-6920-13-36
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Authors

Rebecca Whyte, Thelma Quince, John Benson, Diana Wood, Stephen Barclay

Abstract

Medical students are generally young people, often away from home for the first time and undertaking a course in which they are learning to care for people at all stages of life, including those approaching death. Existing research indicates that their experiences of personal bereavement may have significant implications for their pastoral welfare and medical learning. No previous studies have tracked medical student experience of bereavement longitudinally and no recent data are available from the UK.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Thailand 1 1%
Unknown 66 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 12 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 15%
Researcher 6 9%
Lecturer 4 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 6%
Other 9 13%
Unknown 22 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 24 36%
Psychology 6 9%
Social Sciences 5 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 3%
Other 4 6%
Unknown 23 34%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 2020.
All research outputs
#2,803,702
of 22,701,287 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Education
#471
of 3,296 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#24,115
of 194,890 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Education
#6
of 43 outputs
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