Characteristics of medical students with rural origin: Implications for selective admission policies

Health Policy

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 194-202

  Matsumoto, Masatoshi ^a   Inoue, Kazuo ^b   Kajii, Eiji ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Health policy; Japan; Medical education; Rural health

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRADUATE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LINEAR SYSTEM; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; PARENT; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RURAL AREA; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL ADMISSION;

CAREER CHOICE; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE LOCATION; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; SCHOOLS; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 45549095301     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2007.12.006     Document Type: Article

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