Research involvement, specialty choice, and emigration preferences of final year medical students in Croatia

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 88-95

  Kolčić, Ivana ^a   Polašek, Ozren ^a   Mihalj, Hrvoje ^b   Gombač, Elena ^c   Kraljević, Vinka ^d   Kraljević, Ivana ^e   Krakar, Goran ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b JOSIP JURAJ STROSSMAYER UNIVERSITY OF OSIJEK   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA   (Croatia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^f Croatia   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROATIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; MIGRATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESEARCH; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; MEDICINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; CAREER CHOICE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROATIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 15744388053     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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