Commentary: Coming to America: The integration of international medical graduates into the American medical culture

Academic Medicine

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 176-178

  Whelan, Gerald P ^a  

^a Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; GRADUATE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FOREIGN WORKER; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NOTE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ACCULTURATION; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FOREIGN MEDICAL GRADUATES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33645828212     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200602000-00017     Document Type: Review

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