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| Title |
Statistics teaching in medical school: Opinions of practising doctors
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medical Education, November 2010
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6920-10-75 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Susan Miles, Gill M Price, Louise Swift, Lee Shepstone, Sam J Leinster |
| Abstract |
The General Medical Council expects UK medical graduates to gain some statistical knowledge during their undergraduate education; but provides no specific guidance as to amount, content or teaching method. Published work on statistics teaching for medical undergraduates has been dominated by medical statisticians, with little input from the doctors who will actually be using this knowledge and these skills after graduation. Furthermore, doctor's statistical training needs may have changed due to advances in information technology and the increasing importance of evidence-based medicine. Thus there exists a need to investigate the views of practising medical doctors as to the statistical training required for undergraduate medical students, based on their own use of these skills in daily practice. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 133 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Iran, Islamic Republic of | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 125 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 16 | 12% |
| Researcher | 15 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 14 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 11 | 8% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 8% |
| Other | 46 | 35% |
| Unknown | 21 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 55 | 41% |
| Social Sciences | 8 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 7 | 5% |
| Psychology | 6 | 5% |
| Mathematics | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 23 | 17% |
| Unknown | 29 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 30 January 2022.
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#3,998,719
of 24,612,602 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Education
#669
of 3,782 outputs
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#17,352
of 104,875 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Education
#4
of 12 outputs
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