Choosing a career in psychiatry: Influential factors within a medical school program

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 325-329

  Manassis, Katharina ^a   Katz, Mark ^b   Lofchy, Jodi ^b   Wiesenthal, Stephanie ^b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b Hospital for Sick Children ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREER; CLINICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; PSYCHIATRY; RESIDENT; ADULT; CANADA; CURRICULUM; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MOTIVATION;

ADULT; CAREER CHOICE; CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; MOTIVATION; ONTARIO; PSYCHIATRY; SPECIALISM;

EID: 38949091142     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.30.4.325     Document Type: Article

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