Stories from early-career women physicians who have left academic medicine: A qualitative study at a single institution

Academic Medicine

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 752-758

  Levine, Rachel B ^a   Lin, Fenny ^b   Kern, David E ^a   Wright, Scott M ^a   Carrese, Joseph ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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EID: 79958822103     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e318217e83b     Document Type: Article

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