Using medical specialty and selection criteria clusters to study specialty selection by Israeli medical students
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Using medical specialty and selection criteria clusters to study specialty selection by Israeli medical students
BACKGROUND During their final year of medical school, Israeli students must consider which specialty to choose for residency. Based on the vocational counseling literature we presumed that choices are made by selecting from a cluster of related specialties while considering professional and socio-economic issues. METHODS Questionnaires distributed to final-year medical students at two Israeli...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Medical Education
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1472-6920
DOI: 10.1186/s12909-017-0854-y