Just a spoonful of humanities makes the medicine go down: Introducing literature into a family medicine clerkship

Medical Education

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 605-612

  Shapiro, Johanna ^a   Duke, Alexandra ^a   Boker, John ^a   Ahearn, C Sue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical clerkship *methods; Curriculum; Education, medical, undergraduate *methods; Humanities *education

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CURRICULUM; EMPATHY; FAMILY MEDICINE; FRUSTRATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL STUDENT; PATIENT CARE; STRESS;

CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; CURRICULUM; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANITIES; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; POETRY; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 20144365139     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2929.2005.02178.x     Document Type: Article

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