Personality and clinical skills: Any correlation?

Academic Medicine

Volumn 80, Issue 10 SUPPL., 2005, Pages

  Manuel, R Stephen ^a   Borges, Nicole J ^a   Gerzina, Holly A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EMOTION; EXAMINATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SKILL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 25644451157     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200510001-00011     Document Type: Article

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