Does the amount of time medical students spend in the operating room during the general surgery core clerkship affect their career decision?

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 210, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 167-172

  Hagopian, Thomas M ^a,b   Vitiello, Gerardo A ^a,c   Hart, Alexandra M ^a   Perez, Sebastian D ^a   Sweeney, John F ^a   Pettitt, Barbara J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Laparoscopic surgery; Medical students; Operating rooms; Operative time; University hospitals

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIALIZATION; TIME; EDUCATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CAREER CHOICE; CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; MALE; OPERATING ROOMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84931571285     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2014.10.031     Document Type: Article

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