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ArticleBMC medical education2016

Avoiding the distant elephant: a model to approach the research component of specialization.

Colleen Aldous, Damian Clarke, Jacky van Wyk, Chris Rout

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Article in BMC medical education, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Barriers to effective research supervision in clinical specialist training: Experience from a medical school in Malaysia.Malaysian family physician : the official journal of the Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Colleen AldousSchool of Clinical Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. aldousc@ukzn.ac.za.
Damian ClarkeDepartment of Surgery, School of Clinical Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Jacky van WykDepartment of Clinical and Professional Education, School of Clinical Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Chris RoutDepartment of Anaesthetics, School of Clinical Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Education, Medical, GraduateSpecializationHumansResearchSouth AfricaMentorshipModelResearchResearch specializationStrategySupervision

Identifiers

PMID27179513
PMCPMC4868022

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