Why students drop out of the pipeline to health prefessions careers. A follow-up of gifted minority high school students

Academic Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 448-451

  Thurmond, Vera B ^a   Cregler, Louis L ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREER; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HIGH SCHOOL; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MINORITY GROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 0032966904     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199904000-00044     Document Type: Article

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