Admission Factors Predicting Family Medicine Specialty Choice: A Literature Review and Exploratory Study Among Students in the Rural Medical Scholars Program

Journal of Rural Health

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 128-136

  Avery Jr, Daniel M ^a   Wheat, John R ^a   Leeper, James D ^a   Mcknight, Jerry T ^a   Ballard, Brent G ^a   Chen, Jia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Admission factors; Family medicine choice; Rural; Rural medical scholars program

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; UNITED STATES;

ALABAMA; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84859209506     PISSN: 0890765X     EISSN: 17480361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-0361.2011.00382.x     Document Type: Article

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