What Took Them So Long? Explaining PhD Delays among Doctoral Candidates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  van de Schoot, Rens ^a,b   Yerkes, Mara A ^c,d   Mouw, Jolien M ^e   Sonneveld, Hans ^f,g  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f Netherlands Centre for Graduate and Research Schools   (Netherlands)

^g TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL SUPERVISION; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTORAL EDUCATION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FUNDING; GRADUATE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NETHERLANDS; PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNIVERSITY; WORKLOAD;

BAYES THEOREM; EDUCATION, GRADUATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; TIME FACTORS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84880760881     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068839     Document Type: Article

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