Definition of "Rural" Determines the Placement Outcomes of a Rural Medical Education Program: Analysis of Jichi Medical University Graduates

Journal of Rural Health

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 234-239

  Matsumoto, Masatoshi ^a   Inoue, Kazuo ^b   Kajii, Eiji ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Evaluation design and research; Geography; Medical education; Medically underserved areas; Program evaluation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MANPOWER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CAREER CHOICE; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; JAPAN; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHYSICIANS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL;

EID: 77955143657     PISSN: 0890765X     EISSN: 17480361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-0361.2010.00286.x     Document Type: Article

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