Additional years of Australian Rural Clinical School undergraduate training is associated with rural practice

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Forster, Lesley ^a   Assareh, Hassan ^a   Watts, Lisa D ^a   Mclachlan, Craig S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Logistic regression models; Medical workforce; Rural clinical school; Rural exposure; Rural medical education; Undergraduate medical education

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; EDUCATION; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; TIME;

AUSTRALIA; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HUMANS; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; PHYSICIANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; TIME FACTORS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874609032     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-13-37     Document Type: Article

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