Can a 3-day preceptorship change first-year medical students' opinions about living and working in small towns?

Family Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 495-500

  Lynch, Deirdre C ^a   Willis, Stephen E ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CURRICULUM; FAMILY MEDICINE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; RURAL AREA;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CAREER CHOICE; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PRECEPTORSHIP; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE LOCATION; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033909812     PISSN: 07423225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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