Interest in Infectious Diseases specialty among Japanese medical students amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: A web-based, cross-sectional study

Hideharu Hagiya; Yuki Otsuka; Kazuki Tokumasu; Hiroyuki Honda; Yoshito Nishimura; Mikako Obika; Fumio Otsuka

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0267587

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Interest in Infectious Diseases specialty among Japanese medical students amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: A web-based, cross-sectional study

Hideharu Hagiya ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: hagiya@okayama-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5086-1891

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Yuki Otsuka,

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6015-6128

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Kazuki Tokumasu,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
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Hiroyuki Honda,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
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Yoshito Nishimura,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
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Mikako Obika,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
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Fumio Otsuka

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
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Interest in Infectious Diseases specialty among Japanese medical students amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: A web-based, cross-sectional study

Hideharu Hagiya,
Yuki Otsuka,
Kazuki Tokumasu,
Hiroyuki Honda,
Yoshito Nishimura,
Mikako Obika,
Fumio Otsuka

Published: April 21, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267587

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