Third-year medical students' experiences with dying patients during the internal medicine clerkship: A qualitative study of the informal curriculum

Academic Medicine

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 641-647

  Ratanawongsa, Neda ^a   Teherani, Arianne ^b   Hauer, Karen E ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CURRICULUM; DEATH; DYING; EMOTION; EMPATHY; HUMAN; MEDICAL STUDENT; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SELF CONCEPT; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 21844438690     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200507000-00006     Document Type: Article

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