Factors affecting residency rank-listing: A Maxdiff survey of graduating Canadian medical students

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Tao ^a   Wong, Benson ^b   Huang, Alexander ^c   Khatri, Prateek ^a   Ng, Carly ^d   Forgie, Melissa ^b   Lanphear, Joel H ^e   O'Neill, Peter J ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d Department of Family and Community Medicine ^*  (Canada)

^e NORTHERN ONTARIO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Canada)

^f QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; ONTARIO; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052027942     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-11-61     Document Type: Review

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