Attitudes of Pakistani medical students towards psychiatry as a prospective career: A survey

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 160-164

  Syed, Ehsan Ullah ^a   Siddiqi, Mohammad Naim ^a   Dogar, Imtiaz ^b   Hamrani, Mohammad Munir ^c   Yousafzai, Abdul Wahab ^a   Zuberi, Saman ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b PUNJAB MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

^c KARACHI MEDICAL AND DENTAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRIEDMAN TEST; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MOSLEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PAKISTAN; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHIATRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX RATIO; STUDENT ATTITUDE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CAREER CHOICE; DATA COLLECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISLAM; MALE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; PAKISTAN; PSYCHIATRY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 41749104595     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.32.2.160     Document Type: Article

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