Medical students' attitudes toward the autopsy

Academic Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 681-683

  Conran, Philip ^a,c   Nowacek, George ^d,e   Adams, Tonya ^a,b   Smith, Linda ^f  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Department of Pathology ^*

^d Educ Research and Development

^e MCO

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; AUTOPSY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; AUTOPSY; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OHIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 0030154662     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199606000-00026     Document Type: Article

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