Socializing identity through practice: A mixed methods approach to family medicine resident perspectives on uncertainty

Family Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 549-553

  Ledford, Christy J W ^a   Cafferty, Lauren A ^a   Seehusen, Dean A ^b  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^b Army Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF REPORT; UNCERTAINTY;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF REPORT; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84937158230     PISSN: 07423225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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