Medical education for dreamers: Barriers and opportunities for undocumented immigrants

Academic Medicine

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1593-1598

  Kuczewski, Mark G ^a   Brubaker, Linda ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HUMAN; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MIGRANT; MIGRATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; SOCIAL JUSTICE; UNITED STATES;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HEALTH MANPOWER; HUMANS; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; SOCIAL JUSTICE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84918819873     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000399     Document Type: Review

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