Relationship between specialty choice and medical student temperament and character assessed with cloninger inventory

Teaching and Learning in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 150-156

  Vaidya, Nutan Atre ^a   Sierles, Frederick S ^a   Raida, Michael D ^a   Fakhoury, Faris J ^a   Przybeck, Thomas R ^b   Cloninger, C Robert ^b  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHARACTER; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICAL STUDENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSTETRICS; PEDIATRICS; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; REWARD; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGEON; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 3042773497     PISSN: 10401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15328015tlm1602_6     Document Type: Article

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