Determinants of career aspirations of medical students in southern China

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  She, LingBing ^a   Wu, BingLi ^a   Xu, LiYan ^a   Wu, JianYi ^a   Zhang, PiXian ^a   Li, EnMin ^a  

^a SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; MEDICINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TEACHING;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CAREER CHOICE; CHINA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER LITERACY; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; SELF-EVALUATION PROGRAMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEACHING;

EID: 58249115014     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-8-59     Document Type: Article

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