Carry on shrinking: Career intentions and attitudes to psychiatry of prospective medical students

Psychiatric Bulletin

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 30-32

  Maidment, Rachel ^a   Livingston, Gill ^a   Katona, Margaux ^a   Whitaker, Ella ^a   Katona, Cornelius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CAREER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; PATIENT CARE; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHIATRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMPOSIUM; UNITED KINGDOM; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0037235477     PISSN: 09556036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/pb.27.1.30     Document Type: Article

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