The role of medical education in reducing health care disparities: The first ten years of the UCLA/Drew Medical Education Program

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 625-631

  Ko, Michelle ^a   Heslin, Kevin C ^b,c   Edelstein, Ronald A ^b   Grumbach, Kevin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care disparities; Medical education; UCLA Drew program

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICIAN; POVERTY; RACE; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

ADULT; CALIFORNIA; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE LOCATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 34250308418     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-007-0154-z     Document Type: Article

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