Increasing the pool of academically oriented African-American medical and surgical oncologists

Cancer

Volumn 97, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2003, Pages 329-334

  Newman, Lisa A ^a   Pollock, Raphael E ^b   Johnson Thompson, Marian C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Breast cancer; Mentoring; Oncologists

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; CANCER SURGERY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICAL STUDENT; ONCOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEACHER;

EID: 0037214905     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.11027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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