Students' perspectives on the fourth year of medical school: A mixed-methods analysis

Academic Medicine

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 602-607

  Wolf, Stephen J ^a,b   Lockspeiser, Tai M ^c,d   Gong, Jennifer ^a   Guiton, Gretchen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DENVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Children's Hospital Colorado   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CURRICULUM; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SATISFACTION; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES;

CAREER CHOICE; COLORADO; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CURRICULUM; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84897577399     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000183     Document Type: Article

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