Factors influencing students' borrowing that may affect their speciality choices and other after-graduation behaviors

Academic Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 71-76

  Cooter, Raelynn ^a   Bross, Theodore M ^a   Erdmann, James B ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

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ARTICLE; COST; FINANCE; HUMAN; INCOME; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031909256     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199801000-00015     Document Type: Article

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