Influence of a 3-week psychiatric training programme on attitudes toward mental illness in medical students

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 171-176

  Arkar, H ^a   Eker, D ^b  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MEDICAL STUDENT; MENTAL DISEASE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; TRAINING;

EID: 0030985692     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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