A national study of attrition in general surgery training: Which residents leave and where do they go?

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 252, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 529-534

  Yeo, Heather ^a   Bucholz, Emily ^a   Ann Sosa, Julie ^a   Curry, Leslie ^a   Lewis, Frank R ^b   Jones, Andrew T ^b   Viola, Kate ^a   Lin, Zhenqui ^a   Bell, Richard H ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b American Board of Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CAREER; CONTRACT; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; EXPECTATION; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH PROGRAM; INFORMATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGY; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SURGICAL TRAINING; TRAINING; UNITED STATES; WORK; WORKLOAD; ADULT; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STUDENT;

ADULT; CAREER CHOICE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; STUDENT DROPOUTS; UNITED STATES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 77956214416     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181f2789c     Document Type: Article

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