Residency choices by graduating medical students: Why not pathology?

Human Pathology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 802-807

  Hung, Tawny ^a   Jarvis Selinger, Sandra ^a   Ford, Jason C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Medical education; Pathology; Residency choice

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MEDICAL STUDENT; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PROFESSIONAL STUDENT RELATION; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; STEREOTYPY;

CAREER CHOICE; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; PATHOLOGY;

EID: 79956064772     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: 15328392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2010.10.018     Document Type: Article

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