Medical students' attitudes toward mental disorders before and after a psychiatric rotation

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 357-361

  Galka, Steven W ^a   Perkins, David V ^a   Butler, Nancy ^b   Griffith, Deborah A ^b   Schmetzer, Alan D ^b   Avirrappattu, George ^c   Lafuze, Joan Esterline ^d  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c KEAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY EAST   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MENTAL DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; STUDENT ATTITUDE; EDUCATION; FAMILY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANA; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRY; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 33644826030     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.29.4.357     Document Type: Article

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