'Sorry, it's my first time!' Will patients consent to medical students learning procedures?

Medical Education

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 365-369

  Santen, Sally A ^a   Hemphill, Robin R ^a   Spanier, Cindy M ^a   Fletcher, Nicholas D ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical competence standards; Decision making; Education, medical, undergraduate *methods; Informed consent; Patient satifaction; Students, medical; Surgical procedures minor *methods

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY WARD; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SPLINTING; STANDARD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEACHING;

EID: 17044434213     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2929.2005.02113.x     Document Type: Article

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