Medical school curricular reform: Fourth-year colleges improve access to career mentoring and overall satisfaction

Academic Medicine

Volumn 83, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 754-760

  Coates, Wendy C ^a,d   Crooks, Kimberly ^a   Slavin, Stuart J ^b   Guiton, Gretchen ^c   Wilkerson, Luann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAREER PLANNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT; FREEDOM; HUMAN; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; REVIEW; SATISFACTION; TEACHER; TELEPHONE; UNITED STATES;

CAREER CHOICE; COHORT STUDIES; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MENTORS;

EID: 61349115003     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31817eb7dc     Document Type: Review

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