Private practice and the economic rate of return for residency training as a prosthodontist

Journal of the American Dental Association

Volumn 136, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1154-1162

  Nash, Kent D ^a   Pfeifer, David L ^b,c  

^a LONE STAR COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Rossmoor Medical Center   (United States)

^c ACP   (United States)

Author keywords

Economics; Internal rate of return; Lifetime earnings; Prosthodontic residency

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INVESTMENT; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PROSTHODONTICS; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 23944501315     PISSN: 00028177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14219/jada.archive.2005.0321     Document Type: Article

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