Becoming a general practitioner - Which factors have most impact on career choice of medical students?

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kiolbassa, Kathrin ^a,b   Miksch, Antje ^a,b   Hermann, Katja ^a,b   Loh, Andreas ^b,c   Szecsenyi, Joachim ^a,b   Joos, Stefanie ^a,b   Goetz, Katja ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Competence Centre General Practice ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GERMANY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CAREER CHOICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MOTIVATION; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955694467     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-12-25     Document Type: Article

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