Early community-based family practice elective positively influences medical students' career considerations - A Pre-post-comparison

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Deutsch, Tobias ^a   Hönigschmid, Petra ^a   Frese, Thomas ^a   Sandholzer, Hagen ^a  

^a Leipzig Medical School   (Germany)

Author keywords

Career choice; Elective; Family practice; Medical education

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CURRICULUM; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MANPOWER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CAREER CHOICE; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874011877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-14-24     Document Type: Review

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