Where do students in the health professions want to work?

Human Resources for Health

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Schofield, Deborah ^a   Fletcher, Susan ^a   Fuller, Jeffery ^a   Birden, Hudson ^a   Page, Sue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 79959761067     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4491-7-74     Document Type: Article

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