Medical students' knowledge, attitudes, skills, and practices of cancer prevention and detection

Journal of Cancer Education

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 72-77

  Geller, Alan C ^a,b,c   Prout, Marianne ^b,c,d   Sun, Ting ^a,c   Lew, Robert A ^a,e   Culbert, Arthur L ^a   Koh, Howard K ^a,b,c,f  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Cancer Prevention and Control Center   (United States)

^d Department of Surgery ^*

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL EDUCATION; COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION PROGRAM; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033066297     PISSN: 08858195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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