Predictors of success in medicine

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 362, Issue , 1999, Pages 72-77

  Reede, Joan Y ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFERENCE PAPER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MINORITY GROUP; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION;

EID: 0032915566     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-199905000-00012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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