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Resitting a high-stakes postgraduate medical examination on multiple occasions: nonlinear multilevel modelling of performance in the MRCP(UK) examinations

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, June 2012
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Title
Resitting a high-stakes postgraduate medical examination on multiple occasions: nonlinear multilevel modelling of performance in the MRCP(UK) examinations
Published in
BMC Medicine, June 2012
DOI 10.1186/1741-7015-10-60
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Authors

IC McManus, Katarzyna Ludka

Abstract

Failure rates in postgraduate examinations are often high and many candidates therefore retake examinations on several or even many times. Little, however, is known about how candidates perform across those multiple attempts. A key theoretical question to be resolved is whether candidates pass at a resit because they have got better, having acquired more knowledge or skills, or whether they have got lucky, chance helping them to get over the pass mark. In the UK, the issue of resits has become of particular interest since the General Medical Council issued a consultation and is considering limiting the number of attempts candidates may make at examinations.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 2%
Unknown 53 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 8 15%
Student > Postgraduate 7 13%
Other 6 11%
Lecturer 6 11%
Student > Master 6 11%
Other 16 30%
Unknown 5 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 30 56%
Social Sciences 8 15%
Unspecified 3 6%
Sports and Recreations 1 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 2%
Other 2 4%
Unknown 9 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. 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 02 February 2021.
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#1,603,518
of 22,668,244 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#1,138
of 3,397 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,242
of 167,326 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#16
of 39 outputs
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