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Are “part-time” general practitioners workforce idlers or committed professionals?

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Primary Care, September 2014
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#38 of 2,359)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

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Title
Are “part-time” general practitioners workforce idlers or committed professionals?
Published in
BMC Primary Care, September 2014
DOI 10.1186/1471-2296-15-154
Pubmed ID
Authors

Kathryn M Dwan, Kirsty A Douglas, Laura E Forrest

Abstract

The traditional view of general practice holds that only general practitioners (GPs) in full-time clinical practice can provide quality patient care. Nevertheless, increasing numbers of GPs are choosing to work sessionally, that is, ostensibly "part-time". There are concerns about the health workforce's ability to meet demand and also fears that patient care may be compromised. We sought answers to a) what activities do GPs undertake when not consulting patients, b) why do they choose to work sessionally, and c) does sessional general practice reflect a lack of commitment to patients and the profession?

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 26 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 6 23%
Other 4 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 15%
Student > Postgraduate 2 8%
Student > Master 2 8%
Other 2 8%
Unknown 6 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 11 42%
Psychology 4 15%
Social Sciences 3 12%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 8%
Unknown 6 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 56. 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 24 January 2023.
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#757,731
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from BMC Primary Care
#38
of 2,359 outputs
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#7,723
of 260,973 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Primary Care
#1
of 30 outputs
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