Senior medical students' attitudes toward psychiatry as a career choice before and after an undergraduate psychiatry internship in Iran

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 196-201

  Amini, Homayoun ^a   Moghaddam, Yasaman ^a   Nejatisafa, Ali Akbar ^a   Esmaeili, Sara ^a   Kaviani, Hosein ^a,d   Shoar, Saeed ^a   Shabani, Amir ^a   Samimi Ardestani, Mehdi ^e   Akhlaghi, Amir Abbas Keshavarz ^a   Noroozi, Alireza ^b,c   Mafi, Mostafa ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^e SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; IRAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CAREER CHOICE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; IRAN; MALE; PSYCHIATRY; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84877127239     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.10120171     Document Type: Article

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