Characteristic profiles among students and junior doctors with specific career preferences

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Takeda, Yuko ^a   Morio, Kunimasa ^b   Snell, Linda ^c   Otaki, Junji ^d   Takahashi, Miyako ^e   Kai, Ichiro ^f  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Career choice; Junior doctor; Medical student

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; MEDICAL STUDENT; MEDICINE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; ARTICLE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

CAREER CHOICE; DATA COLLECTION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MEDICINE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84883734391     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-13-125     Document Type: Article

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