Outcomes of the northern Ontario school of medicine's distributed medical education programmes: Protocol for a longitudinal comparative multicohort study

BMJ Open

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Hogenbirk, John C ^a   French, Margaret G ^a   Timony, Patrick E ^a   Strasser, Roger P ^a   Hunt, Dan ^a,b   Pong, Raymond W ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CAREER; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL SERVICE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSICIAN; POSTGRADUATE STUDENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESEARCH ETHICS; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESIDENT; RURAL POPULATION; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; GENERAL PRACTICE; MANPOWER; ONTARIO; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SPECIALIZATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CAREER CHOICE; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; ONTARIO; PHYSICIANS; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE LOCATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; SPECIALIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84941588359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008246     Document Type: Article

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