The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Medical School Admissions: Challenges and Solutions.

Brianna Dowd, Mark McKenney, Adel Elkbuli

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Article in The Journal of surgical research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

5citing papers in PubMed

2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field

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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

Investigation of Health Science Students' Knowledge Regarding Healthy Lifestyle Promotion During the Spread of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Frontiers in public health · 2021
Trial
Medical School Interview Preference in the Post-COVID-19 Era: A Single Institution Experience.Cureus · 2023
Article
Association of the COVID-19 Pandemic With Medical School Diversity Pathway Programs.JAMA network open · 2022
Article
MPRO: A Professionalism Curriculum to Enhance the Professional Identity Formation of University Premedical Students.Medical education online · 2021
Article
An Evaluation Index System for Research Efficiency of Research-Oriented Hospitals in China.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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Letter Regarding: The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Medical School Admissions: Challenges and Solutions.2021

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Brianna DowdDivision of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, Florida.

Mark McKenneyDivision of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, Florida; Department of Surgery, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida.

Adel ElkbuliDivision of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, Florida. Electronic address: Adel.Elkbuli@hcahealthcare.com.

Regional Medical Center · USUniversity of South Florida · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19HumansPandemicsSchool Admission CriteriaSchools, MedicalUnited States

Identifiers

PMID33032139

DOI10.1016/j.jss.2020.08.072

PMCPMC7492063

OpenAlexW3087545956

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.