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| Title |
Country of qualification is linked to doctors’ General Medical Council performance assessment rate, but is it linked to their clinical competence?
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| Published in |
BMC Medicine, August 2017
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12916-017-0918-1 |
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| Authors |
Richard Wakeford |
| Abstract |
Mehdizah and colleagues recently described the prevalence of General Medical Council regulatory performance assessments by doctors' country of primary medical qualification. This article has caused anger within the UK-international medical community because it identifies graduates of certain countries with significantly raised prevalence.The present article comments on evidence from published Royal College of General Practitioners' data that support these conclusions. However, in an increasingly international age of medical education, the ambiguity of attributions of qualifying from a certain country needs addressing. Some medical students of British nationality, for example, who fail to obtain a place at a UK medical school, train in medical schools abroad, and thus may be identified as international medical graduates.Please see related article: https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12909-017-0903-6 . |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 12 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 Kingdom | 6 | 50% |
| Australia | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 5 | 42% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 33% |
| Scientists | 2 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 27 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 27 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 5 | 19% |
| Lecturer > Senior Lecturer | 2 | 7% |
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 7% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 2 | 7% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 2 | 7% |
| Other | 5 | 19% |
| Unknown | 9 | 33% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 12 | 44% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 2 | 7% |
| Social Sciences | 2 | 7% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 4% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 8 | 30% |
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 06 October 2022.
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#4,868,380
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Outputs from BMC Medicine
#2,257
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#80,578
of 321,261 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#26
of 51 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,220,739 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 79th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,706 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 45.3. This one is in the 39th percentile – i.e., 39% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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