The relationship between matriculating medical students' planned specialties and eventual rural practice outcomes

Academic Medicine

Volumn 87, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1086-1090

  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: 84864344444     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31825cfa54     Document Type: Article

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