Medical students' attitudes toward psychiatry in Greece: An eight-year comparison

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 92-97

  Garyfallos, George ^a,b   Adamopoulou, Aravela ^a   Lavrentiadis, Greg ^a   Giouzepas, John ^a   Parashos, Andreas ^a   Dimitriou, Evangelos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Comm Mental Health Center ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GREECE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PSYCHIATRY;

EID: 0031776797     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03341910     Document Type: Article

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