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Discrimination against international medical graduates in the United States residency program selection process

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Education, January 2010
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

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Title
Discrimination against international medical graduates in the United States residency program selection process
Published in
BMC Medical Education, January 2010
DOI 10.1186/1472-6920-10-5
Pubmed ID
Authors

Norman A Desbiens, Humberto J Vidaillet

Abstract

Available evidence suggests that international medical graduates have improved the availability of U.S. health care while maintaining academic standards. We wondered whether studies had been conducted to address how international graduates were treated in the post-graduate selection process compared to U.S. graduates.

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 3%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Singapore 1 1%
Unknown 75 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 15 19%
Other 11 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 9%
Student > Master 6 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 6%
Other 21 27%
Unknown 14 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 38 48%
Social Sciences 7 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 4%
Unspecified 3 4%
Psychology 3 4%
Other 8 10%
Unknown 17 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 31. 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 26 March 2023.
All research outputs
#1,133,955
of 23,477,147 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Education
#97
of 3,472 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,004
of 167,663 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Education
#2
of 14 outputs
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