Gender bias in specialty preferences among Danish medical students: A cross-sectional study

Danish Medical Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Pedersen, Laura Toftegaard ^a   Bak, Nanna Hasle ^a   Dissing, Agnete Skovlund ^a   Petersson, Birgit H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER BIAS; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; DECISION MAKING; DENMARK; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXISM; SPECIALIZATION; STATISTICS;

CAREER CHOICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; SEXISM; SPECIALIZATION; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 80052546763     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16039629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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