Feeding the pipeline: Academic skills training for predental students

Journal of Dental Education

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 653-661

  Markel, Geraldine ^a   Woolfolk, Marilyn ^a   Inglehart, Marita Rohr ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b School of Dentistry

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic skills; Admissions; Dental education; Dental students; Enrichment programs; Medical education; Medical students; Predental students; Study skills; Underrepresented minority students

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DENTAL EDUCATION; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MINORITY GROUP; READING; SCIENCE; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ACHIEVEMENT; CAREER CHOICE; EDUCATION, PREDENTAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MICHIGAN; MINORITY GROUPS; READING; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; SCHOOLS, DENTAL; SCIENCE; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 46349104204     PISSN: 00220337     EISSN: 19307837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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