The phrase "a school attrition" is not correct in written English.
The correct term is "school attrition," which refers to the phenomenon of students leaving or dropping out of school.
Example: "The report highlighted the issue of school attrition and its impact on educational outcomes."
Alternatives: "student dropout" or "school dropout rate."
Our study was a retrospective descriptive study carried out at University College Cork looking at medical school attrition over a Ten-Year period (2001 2011).
Medical school attrition is therefore an important area in medical education.
Medical school attrition is important - securing a place in medical school is difficult and a high attrition rate can affect the academic reputation of a medical school and staff morale.
Medical school attrition is important and there is a need for more rigorous studies and qualitative research on this subject [ 3].
But thanks in part to the MCAT, by the mid-1940s the medical school attrition rate had plummeted to less than 10 percent, even as the standardized exam was becoming a much-maligned rite of passage for aspiring young doctors.
The improvement, though less rosy than the state data, also turns up in numbers collected by the nonprofit Intercultural Development Research Association, which has tracked high school attrition rates in the state using the same methodology since 1986.
Medical school attrition is important and needs to be monitored.
Thirty-one schools (44 classes) completed the SFS intervention (school attrition rate, 3.1%).
To examine student factors associated with medical school attrition including previously unstudied variables.
Variables commonly studied in medical school attrition studies include age, gender, nationality, academic preparedness (prior academic performance, grade point averages) and medical school selection methods [ 3- 16].
