The impact of clerkships on students' specialty preferences: What do undergraduates learn for their profession?

Medical Education

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 554-562

  Maiorova, Tanja ^a   Stevens, Fred ^a   Scherpbier, Albert ^a   Van Der Zee, Jouke ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

*career choice; *clinical clerkship; *specialism; Attitude of health personnel; Female; Humans; Longitudinal studies; Male; Sex factors; Students, medical *psychology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LIFESTYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGEON;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CAREER CHOICE; CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NETHERLANDS; SEX FACTORS; SPECIALISM; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 43549107696     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2008.03008.x     Document Type: Article

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