Motivation underlying career choice for internal medicine and surgery

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1705-1713

  Williams, Geoffrey C ^a   Saizow, Ronald ^b   Ross, Lisa ^c   Deci, Edward L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice of speciaity; Instructors' autonomy support; Medical students'interest

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICAL STUDENT; MOTIVATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SURGERY;

ADULT; CAREER CHOICE; CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; SURGERY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030806668     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(97)00103-2     Document Type: Article

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