The Color of Debt: Racial Disparities in Anticipated Medical Student Debt in the United States

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Dugger, Robert A ^a,b   El Sayed, Abdulrahman M ^a,c   Dogra, Anjali ^b   Messina, Catherine ^b   Bronson, Richard ^b   Galea, Sandro ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL DEFICIT; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; NEGRO; RACE DIFFERENCE; SELF REPORT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; FEMALE; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HUMANS; MALE; POPULATION GROUPS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TRAINING SUPPORT; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883383993     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074693     Document Type: Article

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