Economic diversity in medical education: The relationship between students' family income and academic performance, career choice, and student debt

Evaluation and the Health Professions

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 252-264

  Cooter, Raelynn ^a   Erdmann, James B ^a   Gonnella, Joseph S ^a   Callahan, Clara A ^a   Hojat, Mohammadreza ^a   Xu, Gang ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Family income; Medical education

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CAREER; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; INCOME; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION;

CAREER CHOICE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; INCOME; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRAINING SUPPORT;

EID: 3943077213     PISSN: 01632787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163278704267041     Document Type: Article

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