Specialty preferences among medical students in a Kenyan university

Pan African Medical Journal

Volumn 5, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Mwachaka, Philip Maseghe ^a   Mbugua, Eric Thuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Career; Gender; Kenya; Medical study; Specialty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; GYNECOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; KENYA; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; OBSTETRICS; PEDIATRICS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPECIALIZATION;

EID: 79251528846     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19378688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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