Cognitive factor, attrition rates, and underrepresented minority students: The problem of predicting future performance

Academic Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 10 SUPPL., 1998, Pages

  Tekian, Ara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; MINORITY GROUP; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ARTICLE; EDUCATION;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HUMANS; MINORITY GROUPS; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 0031692052     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199810000-00039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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