Trends along the debt-income axis: Implications for medical students' selections of family practice careers

Academic Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 675-677

  Rosenthal, Michael P ^a   Marquette, Paul A ^b   Diamond, James J ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Pulaski Community Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; GENERAL PRACTICE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MANPOWER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; MEDICINE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFIT; UNITED STATES;

CAREER CHOICE; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; FAMILY PRACTICE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TRAINING SUPPORT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030154711     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199606000-00024     Document Type: Article

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