Evaluating medical students' skills in obtaining informed consent for HIV testing

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 112-119

  Roberts, Laura Weiss ^a,b   Geppert, Cynthia ^a   McCarty, Teresita ^a   Obenshain, S Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; HIV; Informed consent; Medical education; Performance competence assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMED CONSENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERFORMANCE; SCORING SYSTEM;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 0037328426     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1497.2003.10835.x     Document Type: Article

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