The association between global health training and underserved care: Early findings from two longstanding tracks

Family Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 263-267

  Liaw, Winston ^a   Bazemore, Andrew ^b   Xierali, Imam ^b   Walden, John ^c   Diller, Philip ^d   Morikawa, Masahiro J ^e  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROBERT GRAHAM CENTER   (United States)

^c MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; MANPOWER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; POVERTY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CAREER CHOICE; COHORT STUDIES; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; POVERTY AREAS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84883097119     PISSN: 07423225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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