Enhancing the choice of general practice as a career

Australian Family Physician

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 964-968

  Thistlethwaite, Jill ^a   Kidd, Michael R ^a   Leeder, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b University of Sydney   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DECISION MAKING; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL STUDENT; MOTIVATION;

AUSTRALIA; CAREER CHOICE; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MOTIVATION; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 58149467135     PISSN: 03008495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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