Medical Students' Attitudes About Psychiatry: Implications for Psychiatric Recruitment

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 1981, Pages 1144-1154

  Nielsen, Arthur C ^a,b   Eaton, James S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHIATRY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHIATRY; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 0019441271     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1981.01780350078009     Document Type: Article

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