The emerging dental workforce: Why dentistry? A quantitative study of final year dental students' views on their professional career

BMC Oral Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Gallagher, Jennifer E ^a   Patel, Resmi ^a   Donaldson, Nora ^a   Wilson, Nairn H F ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAREER PLANNING; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DENTAL STUDENT; DENTISTRY; ETHNICITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; JOB SECURITY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MOTIVATION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; PROFESSIONALISM; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 34447637952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6831-7-7     Document Type: Article

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