Thinking about giving up clinical practice? A gender-stratified approach to understanding junior doctors' choices

Academic Medicine

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 91-97

  Ochsmann, Elke B ^a,b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 84855360431     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31823aba03     Document Type: Article

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