The state of the literature on primary care specialty choice: Where do we go from here?

Academic Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 68-77

  Meurer, Linda N ^a,d   Bland, Carole J ^b   Maldonado, George ^c  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d Dept of Fam and Community Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CURRICULUM; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; PERSONALITY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030054037     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199601000-00020     Document Type: Article

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