Specialty choice and understanding of primary care among Japanese medical students

Medical Education

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 378-384

  Ohtaki, Junji ^a   Fujisaki, Kazuhiko ^b   Terasaki, Hitoshi ^c   Fukui, Tsuguya ^d   Okamoto, Yuichi ^e   Iwasaki, Sakai ^f   Tsuda, Tsukasa ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^g KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

*Career choice; *Education, medical, undergraduate; *Specialism; Family practice; Japan; Perception; Primary health care; Students medical *psychology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; JAPAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 0029785074     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1996.tb00851.x     Document Type: Article

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