Homeopathy and acupuncture teaching at Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo: The undergraduates' attitudes

Sao Paulo Medical Journal

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 77-82

  Teixeira, Marcus Zulian ^a,b   Lin, Chin An ^a   de Arruda Martins, Milton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Teodoro Sampaio 498   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Attitude; Complementary therapies; Homepathy; Medical education

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BRAZIL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CURRICULUM; HOMEOPATHY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; TEACHING;

EID: 20444495693     PISSN: 15163180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1516-31802005000200009     Document Type: Article

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