Students' interest in becoming a general surgeon before and after a surgical clerkship in German-speaking Switzerland

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 141, Issue AUGUST, 2011, Pages

  Kaderli, Reto ^a   Buser, Christof ^b   Stefenelli, Ulrich ^c   Businger, Adrian ^b  

^a Spitalzentrum Biel AG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Services in Statistics   (Germany)

Author keywords

Career choice; Clerkship; General surgery; Influencing factors; Medical students

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAREER PLANNING; CLINICAL EDUCATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEISURE; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; PERCEPTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SURGEON; SURGICAL TRAINING; SWITZERLAND; WORKING TIME; WORKPLACE; EDUCATION; GENERAL SURGERY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; TIME; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; CAREER CHOICE; CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; SWITZERLAND; TIME FACTORS; WORKLOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052234071     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2011.13246     Document Type: Article

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