Current factors affecting the choice of psychiatry as a specialty: An Italian study

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 74-81

  Galeazzi, Gian Maria ^a   Secchi, Cesare ^a   Curci, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAREER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; ITALY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MENTAL DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PSYCHIATRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELATIVE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADULT; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DATA COLLECTION; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; PSYCHIATRY; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 0037762956     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.27.2.74     Document Type: Article

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