Improving cultural awareness and sensitivity training in medical school

Academic Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 10 SUPPL., 1998, Pages

  Robins, Lynne S ^a   Fantone, Joseph C ^b   Hermann, Julica ^b   Alexander, Gwen L ^b   Zweifler, Andrew J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0031692051     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199810000-00037     Document Type: Conference Paper

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