Finding, recruiting, and sustaining the future primary care physician workforce: A new theoretical model of specialty choice process

Academic Medicine

Volumn 85, Issue 10 SUPPL., 2010, Pages

  Bennett, Keisa L ^a   Phillips, Julie P ^a  

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EID: 77958499678     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181ed4bae     Document Type: Review

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