Factors affecting medical students’ interests in working in rural areas in North India—A qualitative inquiry

Sonu Goel; Federica Angeli; Nonita Dhirar; Garima Sangwan; Kanchan Thakur; Dirk Ruwaard

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0210251

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Factors affecting medical students’ interests in working in rural areas in North India—A qualitative inquiry

Sonu Goel ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: sonugoel007@yahoo.co.in

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5231-7083

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Federica Angeli,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Services Research, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Nonita Dhirar,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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Garima Sangwan,

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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Kanchan Thakur,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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Dirk Ruwaard

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Services Research, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Factors affecting medical students’ interests in working in rural areas in North India—A qualitative inquiry

Sonu Goel,
Federica Angeli,
Nonita Dhirar,
Garima Sangwan,
Kanchan Thakur,
Dirk Ruwaard

Published: January 10, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210251

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