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| Title |
The Academic Backbone: longitudinal continuities in educational achievement from secondary school and medical school to MRCP(UK) and the specialist register in UK medical students and doctors
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| Published in |
BMC Medicine, November 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1741-7015-11-242 |
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| Authors |
IC McManus, Katherine Woolf, Jane Dacre, Elisabeth Paice, Chris Dewberry |
| Abstract |
Selection of medical students in the UK is still largely based on prior academic achievement, although doubts have been expressed as to whether performance in earlier life is predictive of outcomes later in medical school or post-graduate education. This study analyses data from five longitudinal studies of UK medical students and doctors from the early 1970s until the early 2000s. Two of the studies used the AH5, a group test of general intelligence (that is, intellectual aptitude). Sex and ethnic differences were also analyzed in light of the changing demographics of medical students over the past decades. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 4 | 67% |
| Unknown | 2 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 67% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 115 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 112 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 19 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 11 | 10% |
| Professor | 10 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 8% |
| Other | 35 | 30% |
| Unknown | 19 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 58 | 50% |
| Psychology | 12 | 10% |
| Social Sciences | 7 | 6% |
| Computer Science | 3 | 3% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 11 | 10% |
| Unknown | 21 | 18% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 42. 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 20 March 2024.
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#989,641
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Outputs from BMC Medicine
#692
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#8,639
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#11
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