Medical career choice and practice location: Early factors predicting course completion, career choice and practice location

Medical Education

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 239-248

  Ward, Alison M ^a   Kamien, Max ^a   Lopez, Derrick G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

*Career choice; Australia; Cohort study; Education, medical *standards; Longitudinal study; Rural health; Specialties, medical *education; Urban health

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; CAREER; DECISION MAKING; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICAL STUDENT; PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRALIA; CAREER CHOICE; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE LOCATION; RURAL HEALTH; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 1642278699     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2923.2004.01762.x     Document Type: Article

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