Complementary therapies and the medical profession: A study of medical students' attitudes

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 68-73

  Hopper, Ingrid ^a   Cohen, Marc ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; EDUCATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ATTITUDE; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 0032063507     PISSN: 10786791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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