A contract-based training system for rural physicians: Follow-up of Jichi medical university graduates (1978-2006)

Journal of Rural Health

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 360-368

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

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTRACT; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MANPOWER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

CAREER CHOICE; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONTRACTS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; JAPAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PERSONNEL SELECTION; PHYSICIANS; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE LOCATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL;

EID: 52949085864     PISSN: 0890765X     EISSN: 17480361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-0361.2008.00182.x     Document Type: Article

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