Iesa MAM. Adv Med Educ Pract. 2020;11:237–243.
The Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Advances in Medical Education and Practices wish to retract the published article.
We were notified of potential discrepancies between three articles cited in the Background Studies section of the published article. The cited articles do not appear related to the data they were being used to describe. The studies cited were listed as references 19, 20 and 21:
Lunt N, Horsfall D, Smith R, Exworthy M, Hanefeld J, Mannion R. Market size, market share and market strategy: three myths of medical tourism. Policy Politics. 2014;42(4):597–614. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557312X655918
Lempp H, Seale C. The hidden curriculum in undergraduate medical education: qualitative study of medical students’ perceptions of teaching. BMJ. 2004;329(7469):770–773. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.329.7469.770
Könings KD, Brand-Gruwel S, Van Merriënboer JJ. Towards more powerful learning environments through combining the perspectives of designers, teachers, and students. Br J Educ Psychol. 2005;75(4):645–660. https://doi.org/10.1348/000709905X43616
The data being referred to by these references appears to have come from another study which was not cited:
Rouhani MJ, Burleigh EJ, Hobbis C, Dunford C, Osman NI, Gan C, Gibbons NB, Ahmed HU, Miah S. UK medical students’ perceptions, attitudes, and interest toward medical leadership and clinician managers. Adv Med Educ Pract. 2018;9:119–124. https://doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S151436
The author was contacted but was unable to provide a satisfactory explanation for the alleged discrepancies. The author was also unable to provide satisfactory raw data for their study and could not provide details of the questionnaires used for the survey or details of the UK medical schools or students described in their study. The editor determined the findings of the study were no longer valid and requested for the article to be retracted.
Our decision-making was informed by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines on retraction.
The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted”.