Graduate entry to medicine: Widening psychological diversity

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  James, David ^a   Ferguson, Eamonn ^b   Powis, David ^c   Bore, Miles ^c   Munro, Don ^c   Symonds, Ian ^c   Yates, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

CAREER CHOICE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLLEGE ADMISSION TEST; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTORS; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73849120721     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-9-67     Document Type: Article

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