Factors associated with the perception that debt influences physicians' specialty choices

Academic Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1088-1096

  Baker, Laurence C ^a,c   Barker, Dianne C ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Barker Bi Coastal Health Consultants   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031459060     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199712000-00021     Document Type: Article

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