Medical students' personal values and their career choices a quarter-century later

Psychological Reports

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 243-248

  Hojat, Mohammadreza ^a   Brigham, Timothy P ^b   Gottheil, Edward ^b   Xu, Gang ^b   Glaser, Karen ^b   Veloski, J Jon ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CAREER CHOICE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; SOCIAL VALUES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 0032135063     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1998.83.1.243     Document Type: Article

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