Effects of cadaver dissection on the attitudes of medical students

Medical Education

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 290-295

  Charlton, R ^a   Dovey, S M ^a   Jones, D G ^a   Blunt, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

*attitude of health personnel; *cadavers; *education, medical, undergraduate; attitude to death; sex factors; students, medical *psychol

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CADAVER; COPING BEHAVIOR; CURRICULUM; DEATH; DISSECTION; DYING; ETHNOLOGY; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CADAVER; DISSECTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0028021283     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1994.tb02714.x     Document Type: Article

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