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| Title |
A qualitative analysis of statements on motivation of applicants for medical school
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medical Education, September 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6920-14-200 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Anouk Wouters, Anneke H Bakker, Inge J van Wijk, Gerda Croiset, Rashmi A Kusurkar |
| Abstract |
Selection committees try to ascertain that motivated students are selected for medical school. Self-determination theory stresses that the type of motivation is more important than the quantity of motivation. Autonomous motivation, compared to controlled motivation, in students leads to better learning outcomes. Applicants can express their motivation in written statements, a selection tool which has been found to elicit heterogeneous responses, hampering the comparison of applicants. This study investigates the content of applicants' statements on motivation for medical school in particular, the possibility to distinguish the type of motivation and the differences between selected and non-selected applicants. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 8 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 | 2 | 25% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 5 | 63% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 50% |
| Scientists | 3 | 38% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 13% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 94 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 91 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 10 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 7% |
| Other | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 29 | 31% |
| Unknown | 14 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 35 | 37% |
| Social Sciences | 13 | 14% |
| Psychology | 12 | 13% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 3 | 3% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 12 | 13% |
| Unknown | 17 | 18% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 03 December 2014.
All research outputs
#6,504,291
of 25,840,929 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Education
#1,090
of 4,074 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#62,621
of 263,971 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Education
#11
of 59 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,840,929 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 74th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,074 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 59 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% of its contemporaries.