Medical students' perceptions on factors influencing a surgical career: The fate of general surgery in Greece

Surgery

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 510-515

  Pikoulis, Emmanouil ^a   Avgerinos, Efthimios D ^a   Pedeli, Xanthi ^b   Karavokyros, Ioannis ^a   Bassios, Neofitos ^a   Anagnostopoulou, Sofia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREER; CLINICAL EDUCATION; GENERAL SURGERY; GREECE; HUMAN; MEDICAL STUDENT; OPERATING ROOM; PATIENT CARE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; TRAINING;

CAREER CHOICE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; GENERAL SURGERY; GREECE; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; MEDICINE; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPECIALTIES, SURGICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 77955924241     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2010.01.013     Document Type: Article

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