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Record W2997806728 · doi:10.18192/uojm.v9i2.4472

My Journey from the Inner-city to Medical School

2019· article· en· W2997806728 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Mateen Akhtar

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Ottawa Journal of Medicine · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicDiversity and Career in Medicine
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMentorshipExcellenceDisadvantageMedical schoolMedical educationCareer PathwaysImmigrationInner citySociologyMedicinePolitical sciencePublic relationsSocioeconomicsLaw

Abstract

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As an immigrant who grew up in the inner-city Toronto and Hamilton community to a low-income family this article highlights some of the challenges faced by me and countless other students living in these communities on their route to pursuing a career in medicine. While becoming a physician requires academic excellence, growing up in these circumstances is filled with challenges that extend far beyond the classroom. More specifically; a lack of experience, mentorship, and financial resources disadvantage marginalized student’s medical school applications and subsequently prevent them from pursuing a career as a physician in both Canada and abroad.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.295
Threshold uncertainty score0.587

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0410.017
Scholarly communication0.0110.004
Open science0.0020.014
Research integrity0.0030.015
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.265
Teacher spread0.245 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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