"Writing about medicine": An exercise in reflection at Mount Sinai (with five samples of student writing)

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 322-326

  Feigelson, Suzanne ^a   Muller, David ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Creative writing; Humanities; Medical education; Narrative medicine; Professionalism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HUMANITIES; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SKILL; WRITING;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HUMANS; MEDICINE IN LITERATURE; NEW YORK CITY; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; WRITING;

EID: 25144485042     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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