Evolutionary explanations in medical and health profession courses: Are you answering your students' "why" questions?

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Harris, Eugene E ^a   Malyango, Avelin A ^b  

^a QUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; BIRTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; COUGHING; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DIARRHEA; EVOLUTION; FEVER; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE; GENETIC DISORDER; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; HEALTH; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFECTION; LONGEVITY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL STUDENT; NATURAL SELECTION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PATHOGENESIS; PHENYLKETONURIA; PREVALENCE; PROGENY; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SOCIETY; SYMPTOM; TAY SACHS DISEASE; TEACHER; ADAPTATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MEDICAL GENETICS; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CURRICULUM; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL; GENETICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELECTION, GENETIC; STUDENTS, HEALTH OCCUPATIONS;

EID: 21744441466     PISSN: 14726920     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-5-16     Document Type: Article

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