Access and Selection: Canadian Perspectives on Who Will Be Good Doctors and How to Identify Them

Academic Medicine

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 946-952

  Bandiera, Glen ^a   Maniate, Jerry ^b   Hanson, Mark D ^c   Woods, Nikki ^d   Hodges, Brian ^e  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADA; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CANADA; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HUMANS; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;

EID: 84943637752     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000683     Document Type: Article

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