Medical students' attitudes on specialist physicians' social and sexual contact with patients

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 35-42

  Coverdale, John ^a   Bayer, Timothy ^b   Chiang, Elizabeth ^b   Moore, Constance ^b   Bangs, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICAL STUDENT; OBSTETRICS; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHIATRY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

EID: 0030043617     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03341959     Document Type: Article

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