General Practice as a career choice among undergraduate medical students in Greece

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Mariolis, Anargiros ^a   Mihas, Constantinos ^a   Alevizos, Alevizos ^a   Gizlis, Vasilis ^a   Mariolis, Theodoros ^a   Marayiannis, Konstantinos ^a   Tountas, Yiannis ^b   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^b   Philalithis, Anastas ^c   Creatsas, George ^b  

^a Health Centre of Vyronas   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURRICULUM; DECISION MAKING; ENDOCRINOLOGY; FAMILY MEDICINE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL SURGERY; GREECE; GYNECOLOGY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; MEDICINE; OBSTETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SELF REPORT; TEACHING; TRAINING; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; EDUCATION; FEMALE; MALE; MANPOWER; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CAREER CHOICE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 34347336408     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-7-15     Document Type: Article

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