The relationship between entering medical students' backgrounds and career plans and their rural practice outcomes three decades later

Academic Medicine

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 493-497

  Rabinowitz, Howard K ^a   Diamond, James J ^a   Markham, Fred W ^a   Santana, Abbie J ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84859427132     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182488c06     Document Type: Article

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