Language background and communication skills of medical students

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 383-388

  Hays, Richard B ^a,c   Pearse, Patricia ^b   Cooper, Christopher W ^b   Sanderson, Leonie ^b  

^a North Queensland Clinical School   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c General Practice and Rural Health   (Australia)

Author keywords

Communication; Ethnicity; Language; Medical students

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DEMOGRAPHY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 0030326388     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557858.1996.9961807     Document Type: Article

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