Medical students' choice of specialty and factors determining their choice: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey in Melaka-Manipal medical college, Malaysia

BioScience Trends

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 69-76

  Chew, Yu Wei ^a   Rajakrishnan, Sudeash ^a   Low, Chin Aun ^a   Jayapalan, Prakash Kumar ^a   Sreeramareddy, Chandrashekhar T ^a  

^a MELAKA MANIPAL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Malaysia; Postgraduate training; Specialty; Undergraduate medical education

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALAYSIA; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPECIALIZATION; STATISTICS;

CAREER CHOICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPECIALIZATION; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82255182564     PISSN: 18817815     EISSN: 18817823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5582/bst.2011.v5.2.69     Document Type: Article

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