Similarities and differences between international medical graduates and U.S. medical graduates at six Maryland community-based internal medicine residency training programs

Academic Medicine

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 385-390

  Gozu, Aysegul ^a,b,c   Kern, David E ^a   Wright, Scott M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Franklin Square Hospital Center   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EDUCATION PROGRAM; GRADUATE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SELF ESTEEM; UNITED STATES; ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOREIGN WORKER; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MULTICENTER STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CAREER CHOICE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOREIGN MEDICAL GRADUATES; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; MARYLAND; SELF CONCEPT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 63249118998     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e318197321b     Document Type: Article

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