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| Title |
A study to investigate the effectiveness of SimMan® as an adjunct in teaching preclinical skills to medical students
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medical Education, November 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6920-14-231 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Meenakshi Swamy, Marina Sawdon, Andrew Chaytor, David Cox, Judith Barbaro-Brown, John McLachlan |
| Abstract |
Following the GMC's report on Tomorrow's Doctors, greater emphasis has been placed on training in clinical skills, and the integration of clinical and basic sciences within the curriculum to promote the development of effective doctors. The use of simulation in the learning environment has the potential to support the development of clinical skills in preclinical medical students whilst in a 'safe' environment, but currently there is little evidence on its effectiveness. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 14 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 | 3 | 21% |
| Canada | 1 | 7% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 7% |
| Italy | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 8 | 57% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 9 | 64% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 29% |
| Scientists | 1 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 99 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Chile | 1 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1% |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 95 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 15 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 15 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 11% |
| Other | 8 | 8% |
| Lecturer | 7 | 7% |
| Other | 25 | 25% |
| Unknown | 18 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 47 | 47% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 14 | 14% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 5% |
| Psychology | 2 | 2% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 7 | 7% |
| Unknown | 22 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 28 May 2015.
All research outputs
#2,545,294
of 22,771,140 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Education
#407
of 3,306 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#37,619
of 362,502 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Education
#8
of 66 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,771,140 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 88th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,306 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 done well, scoring higher than 87% of its peers.
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